Dingiri Bandara Welagedara, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDingiri Bandara Welagedara
Sri Lankan politician
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Place of Birth: Polgahawela, Sri Lanka
About Dingiri Bandara Welagedara
- Dingiri Banda Welagedera (31 October 1915 - 2 April 1989) also known as D.
- B.
- Welagedera (31 October 1915 – 22 April 1989) was the Deputy Minister of Plan Implementation and Minister a former Member of Parliament representing Kurunegala District.
- Welagedera served as the 1st Governor of North Central Province.
- He was appointed on May 1988 and was Governor until May 1989.
- He was succeeded by E.
- L.
- Senanayake.Born on 31 October 1915 at Panaliya, Polgahawela, as Welagedara Mudiyanselage Dingiri Banda Welagedera was the only child of the family.
- He was educated at Ananda College, Colombo, Nalanda College, Colombo and at St.
- John's College, Jaffna before entering Colombo Law College.
- He joined government service in the first batch of Divisional Revenue Officers that replaced the native headmen system.
- He was elected the president of the Divisional Revenue Officers' Association.He resigned from government service to contest the 1952 general election from the United National Party from the Kurunegala District.
- He was elected to the House of Representatives defeating Herbert Sri Nissanka.
- He contested the July 1960 general election but lost to D.
- B.
- Monnekulama, but was successful in the 1965 general election and again defeated Monnekulama in the 1977 general election.
- He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Nationalised Services from 1965 to 1970 and was appointed Deputy Minister of Plan Implementation in 1977.
- He served as Governor of the North Central Province from May 1988 to May 1989. He died on 2 April 1989 and his body was donated to the Colombo Medical College.
- The Welagedara Stadium and the Welagedara Ayurveda Hospital has been named after him.
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