15 Facts About Suranimala Rajapaksha

Rajapakse Mohottige Don Suranimala Rajapaksha was a Sri Lankan politician.

Suranimala Rajapaksha was a member of the United National Party and a member of the UNP Working Committee.

Suranimala Rajapaksha was appointed as the Coordinating secretary to the prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in 2015.

Suranimala Rajapaksha's father was a well-respected landowner in the village of Samanabeddha, Thitthapatthara, in Gampaha District.

Suranimala Rajapaksha was the youngest son in a family of three.

Suranimala Rajapaksha later entered Ananda College at Colombo to complete his secondary education.

The First Provincial Council election was held in 1988, and Suranimala Rajapaksha was elected as a member of the Provincial Council representing the Gampaha district.

However, in 1994, Suranimala Rajapaksha was elected as a member of parliament of the opposition for the very first time at the general election.

Suranimala Rajapaksha was re-elected to the Parliament in that election and he was appointed as the Minister of School Education in 2001.

In 2003, Suranimala Rajapaksha who was a non-cabinet Education Minister would frequently undermine his senior Cabinet Minister Karunasena Kodituwakku resulting in a rift within the UNP.

In March 2003, a domestic airline was delayed by two hours in Jaffna because non-cabinet minister for educational services, Suranimala Rajapaksha Rajapakse, was lunching with a local MP.

Suranimala Rajapaksha faced a humiliating loss of his Parliamentary seat during the 2004 General Elections.

In 2007, the Attorney General's Department initiated action against Suranimala Rajapaksha for defaulting the payment of installments for the luxury vehicles obtained under the duty free facility provided for parliamentarians.

Suranimala Rajapaksha died in the early hours of 14 March 2016 in Colombo, at the age of 67, he had been receiving treatment at a private hospital.

Suranimala Rajapaksha served as the special envoy to Ranil Wickremesinghe, the prime minister of Sri Lanka, for just over a year, at the time of his death.