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Hon.
Philip Gunawardena
Minister of Fisheries and Industry
In office 1965–1970
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Prime Minister
Dudley Senanayake
Preceded by
W. J. C. Munasinha
Succeeded by
George Rajapaksa
Minister of Agriculture and Food
In office 1956–1959
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Prime Minister
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
Preceded by
J. R. Jayewardene
Succeeded by
C. P. de Silva
Member of the Ceylon Parliament for Avissawella
In office 1956–1970
Preceded by
Kusumasiri Gunawardena
Succeeded by
Bonnie Jayasuriya
In office 1947–1947
Succeeded by
Kusumasiri Gunawardena
Personal details
Born
(1901-01-11)11 January 1901 Boralugoda, Avissawella, British Ceylon
Died
26 March 1972(1972-03-26) (aged 71) Colombo, Dominion of Ceylon
Ananda College University of Colombo University of Illinois
Occupation
Politician
Don Philip Rupasinghe Gunawardena (11 January 1901 – 26 March 1972) was a Sri Lankan Marxist politician and leftist. A founder of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the first political party in Ceylon which was known for having introduced Trotskyism, he later formed the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna and was called 'the Father of Socialism' and as 'the Lion of Boralugoda'. A member of the State Council of Ceylon and the Parliament of Ceylon, he served as the Minister of Agriculture and food under S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike from 1956 to 1959 and as Minister of Industries and Fisheries in the national government under Dudley Senanayake from 1965 to 1970.
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