1. Chandrasekera Rohitha Bandara Bogollagama was born on 6 August 1954 and is a Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.
13 Facts About Rohitha Bogollagama
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Rohitha Bogollagama is a former Governor of Eastern Province, having earlier served as the Cabinet Minister of Foreign Affairs from 28 January 2007 until he was defeated in the General Elections held on 8 April 2010, losing his seat in parliament.
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Rohitha Bogollagama had a long career in law, from 1976 to 1999, before being elected to the Sri Lankan parliament in 2000 from the United National Party, and then crossed over to Sri Lanka Freedom Party, serving as the chief organiser for the Kotte Electorate.
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Rohitha Bogollagama attended Ananda College in Colombo and later the Sri Lanka Law College, passing out in 1976.
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Rohitha Bogollagama was called to the Bar and enrolled as Attorney-at-Law by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in October 1976.
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Rohitha Bogollagama was Chairman of the Sri Lanka Cement Corporation and Chairman and Director General of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka.
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Rohitha Bogollagama switched political allegiance on 18 November 2004, siding with the United People's Freedom Alliance; the President swore him in as the Cabinet Minister of Advanced Technology and National Enterprise Development on the same day.
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Rohitha Bogollagama became the Minister of Enterprise and Development on 23 November 2005.
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Rohitha Bogollagama represented the government of Sri Lanka at two rounds of peace talks with the LTTE at Geneva in 2006.
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Rohitha Bogollagama was defeated in the General Elections held on 8 April 2010, losing his seat in parliament and was not reappointed to cabinet.
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Rohitha Bogollagama was appointed Governor of Eastern Province by President Maithripala Sirisena in July 2017 and served till 2018.
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Rohitha Bogollagama was appointed as the Sri Lankan High Commissioner-designate to the UK by President Ranil Wickremesinghe in October 2023.
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Rohitha Bogollagama attended the 2023 UN peacekeeping ministerial meeting in Accra, Ghana in December 2023 as the special representative of President Ranil Wickremesinghe.