18 Facts About Champika Ranawaka

Achchige Patali Champika Ranawaka is a Sri Lankan electrical engineer and a politician.

Champika Ranawaka was a member of parliament from the Colombo District of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya.

Champika Ranawaka is currently the leader of a civil society named "43rd Brigade", after declaring himself as an independent Member of Parliament on 8 June 2022.

Champika Ranawaka was the Cabinet Minister of Megapolis and Western Development, as well as Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Power and Energy and Technology, Research and Atomic Energy.

Champika Ranawaka born in Bulathsinghala in the Kalutara district and entered Taxila Central College after being qualified from the Scholarship Examination.

Champika Ranawaka's family name Achchige is of Malayalam origin, achchi being the feminine form of the Malayalam word meaning father, and is a name associated with the Kerala origin Kuruppu clan indicating matrilineal inheritance.

Champika Ranawaka was active in politics while in university in the late 1980s as a member of a pro-Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna student union, having spent over eight years as an undergraduate in the university engaged in politics.

Champika Ranawaka was arrested as part of the crackdown student activists during the second JVP insurrection in 1988 and again in 1991.

Champika Ranawaka formed the non-political organization known as 'Janatha Mithuro' with some of his colleagues including Athuraliye Rathana Thero, Nishantha Warnasinghe and Malinda Seneviratne.

Champika Ranawaka contested the 2010 General Election under the UPFA from Colombo District and was placed third place by obtaining 120,333 votes securing membership in the Sri Lanka Parliament and appointed to Minister of Power and Energy.

In 2015 General Election Champika Ranawaka contested under UNP from Colombo District.

Champika Ranawaka was appointed the Minister of Megapolis and Western Development.

In 2008 Champika Ranawaka called the Muslim community in Sri Lanka 'outsiders' sparking widespread protests.

In 2012, Champika Ranawaka warned the Tamil people that they would receive a hundred Mullivaikkals if they continued to support the TNA self determination policies.

Champika Ranawaka has been critical of international intervention in Sri Lanka stating that anyone who takes action against Sri Lanka will be supporting terrorism.

Champika Ranawaka is alleged to have been connected to the abduction of family members of a major witness.

Champika Ranawaka was summoned in the Magistrate court the same day he was arrested and was initially remanded until 19 December 2019.

Champika Ranawaka was further ordered by the court to be remanded until 24 December 2019.