Preceded by T.B.Ilangaratne Nationality Sri Lankan Alma mater Kandy | Majority 5300 votes Role Member of Parliament Succeeded by Bennet Cooray Spouse(s) Prema Mallimaratchi | |
Name Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi | ||
Member of Parliament from 1977 to 1994
Deputy Mayor Colombo 1970-1971 Member Colombo Municipal Council 1962-1977 District Minister of Colombo 1978-1988 Minister of Petroleum Services 1988-1989 State Minister of Industries 1989-1990 Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi (died October 24, 1994) was the Cabinet Minister of Food / Co-operative and Janasaviya) of United National Party government from 1990-94. He was elected to parliament in 1977 & re-elected in 1989 and in 1994 from the Kolonnawa electorate in Colombo district. Parliamentary election of 1994. But his political life was cut short when he was assassinated by a female suicide bomber of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) while attending an election rally in support of Gamini Dissanayake, for the Presidential election of 1994.