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Udaya Gammanpila

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Udaya Gammanpila
උදය ගම්මන්පිල
உதய கம்மன்பில
Minister of Energy
In office
12 August 2020 – 3 March 2022
PresidentGotabaya Rajapaksa
Prime MinisterMahinda Rajapaksa
Preceded byMahinda Amaraweera[N 1]
Succeeded byGamini Lokuge
Minister of Buddha Sasana and Religious Affairs
In office
9 November 2018 – 15 December 2018
PresidentMaithripala Sirisena
Prime MinisterMahinda Rajapaksa
Preceded byGamini Jayawickrama Perera[N 2]
Succeeded byGamini Jayawickrama Perera[N 3]
Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation, Industries and Environment, Western Province
In office
2009–2014
GovernorAlavi Moulana
Chief MinisterPrasanna Ranatunga
Member of Parliament
for Colombo District
Assumed office
1 September 2015
Member of the Western Provincial Council
for Colombo District
In office
2009–2015
Personal details
Born
Udaya Prabath Gammanpila

(1970-02-06) 6 February 1970 (age 53)
Nawalapitiya, Sri Lanka
Political partyPivithuru Hela Urumaya
Other political
affiliations
Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance
(2019 – 2022)
United People's Freedom Alliance
(2009 – 2019)
Alma materD. S. Senanayake College
Monash University
Sri Lanka Law College
ProfessionComputer Engineer, Lawyer, University Lecturer
Websiteudayagammanpila.com

Udaya Prabath Gammanpila (born 6 February 1970) (known as Udaya Gammanpila) is a Sri Lankan nationalist politician. By profession, he is a computer engineer[citation needed], lawyer and a politician. He is a former Minister of Energy and Member of Sri Lanka Parliament for Colombo District.

He has also worked as the former minister in the Western province and carried out the ministerial portfolio as the Cabinet minister for Buddhism and Religious affairs in the government. He was elected as a Member of Parliament with 198,818 preferential votes from the Colombo District at the General Election held on 17 August 2015. He is also the leader of the “Pivithuru Hela Urumaya” political party.[1]

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Early life and education

Udaya Gammanpila was born at Nawalapitiya on 6 February 1970. He attended D. S. Senanayake College, Colombo for his secondary education, where he passed the GCE A/L examination in 1988 and won a scholarship from the Australian government to study for a degree in computer science at Monash University.[citation needed] In 1993, while in his fourth year, he was appointed as an assistant lecturer at the university. Upon his return to Sri Lanka in 1994, he joined the Australia-Lanka Group as an Apprentice Manager and two years later became the Director and CEO of the group.[citation needed] Gammanpila, studied law at the Sri Lanka Law College, passed the law examination in 2003 and was sworn in as a lawyer.[citation needed]

Early political life

Gammanpila entered politics in 2000 as a founding member of Sinhala nationalist political party, Sihala Urumaya. Gammanpila was appointed as the party's propaganda secretary in 2001 and later became its deputy general secretary.[citation needed] In 2007, he was appointed as the chairman of the Central Environmental Authority by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Gammanpila also served as a member of the All-Party Representatives Committee appointed by the President to resolve the North-East crisis in August that year.[citation needed] In 2009, he voluntarily resigned as chairman of the Central Environmental Authority to contest for the Western Provincial Council. He was elected and sworn in as the Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation, Industries and Environment of the Western Province.[citation needed]

Milestones

Chairman Central Environment Authority

Gammanpila was appointed as the Chairman of the Central Environmental Authority in 2007, where he implemented the Pilisaru Waste Management Project and the Fuel Generation of Plastic Waste project.[citation needed]

Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation, Industries and Environment (Western Province)

He served as the Minister of Agriculture under the Goviriya Aruna program, aimed at increasing the productivity of agriculture through mechanisation of agriculture, resulting in the Ministry being awarded the ISO 9001-2008 certification by the Sri Lanka Standards Institution in 2013.[citation needed]

Member of parliament

Gammanpila contested the 2015 parliamentary election from the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA), receiving 198,818 preferential votes in his first parliamentary election.[citation needed]

Electoral history

Electoral history of Udaya Gammanpila
Election Constituency Party Alliance Votes Result
2009 provincial Colombo District JHU UPFA 116,144 Elected
2014 provincial Colombo District JHU UPFA 115,637 Elected
2015 parliamentary Colombo District PHU UPFA 198,818 Elected
2020 parliamentary Colombo District PHU SLPFA 136,331 Elected

Author and editor

Since 2002 Gammanpila has been a frequent contributor to newspapers and has published weekly columns for Lankadeepa in Sinhala under the name “Pradeepa” in Sinhala and from 2012, Ceylon Today in English as Guard Post. His latest book is Mahinda Sulagin Gotabhishekayata, which features the behind-the-scenes story of Gotabhaya Rajapaksa entry into politics and power.[citation needed]

Notes

References

[1]

  1. ^ "(adaderana)". ada derana. 27 August 2015. Retrieved 28 September 2012.

External links

This page was last edited on 13 December 2023, at 06:22
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