P. B. Bulankulame, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

P. B. Bulankulame

Sri Lankan politician

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1890

Place of Birth: Anuradhapura, North Central Province, Sri Lanka

Date of Death: 17-Dec-1958

Profession: politician

Nationality: Sri Lanka

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Sooriyakumara Wannisinghe Punchi Banda Bulankulame, OBE (known as P.
B.
Bulankulame Dissawa) (12 December 1890 - 17 December 1958) was a Ceylonese politician, who was the former Cabinet Minister of Lands and Land Development in Dudley Senanayake's and John Kotelawala's government.Educated at Royal College Colombo, he was elected to the 2nd State Council of Ceylon on 21 April 1944, following the death of the sitting member, H.
R.
Freeman.
In 1947 he was elected to first Parliament of Ceylon.
In the first government since independence, he was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Lands.
He was awarded the title of Dissawa by the British Governor of Ceylon and later made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 1951 Birthday Honours.