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Hon.
Gamini Dissanayake
PC
9th Leader of the Opposition
In office 25 August 1994 – 24 October 1994
President
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
Prime Minister
Chandrika Kumaratunga
Preceded by
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Succeeded by
Ranil Wickremesinghe
Minister of Mahaweli Development
In office 1977–1990
President
J.R Jayawardena Ranasinghe Premadasa
Prime Minister
Ranasinghe Premadasa Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
Member of Parliament for Kandy District
In office 1994–1994
Majority
198,207 Preferential Votes
Member of Parliament for Nuwara Eliya District
In office 1989–1991
Majority
73,790 Preferential Votes
Member of Parliament for Nuwara Eliya-Maskeliya
In office 1977–1988
Preceded by
Constituency Established
Succeeded by
Constituency Abolished
Member of Parliament for Nuwara Eliya
In office 1970–1977
Preceded by
D. J. Ranaweera
Succeeded by
Constituency Abolished
Personal details
Born
20 March 1942 Kandy, Sri Lanka
Died
24 October 1994(1994-10-24) (aged 52) Colombo, Sri Lanka
Dissanayake Mudiyanse Ralahamilage Lionel Gamini Dissanayake, PC (known as Gamini Dissanayake; Sinhala: ලයනල් ගාමිණි දිසානායක,Tamil: காமினி திஸாநாயக்க; 20 March 1942 – 24 October 1994) was a prominent Sri Lankan politician, a powerful minister of the United National Party, and Leader of the Opposition. He was designated as the UNP candidate in the 1994 presidential election, but was then assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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