Edmund Wijesuriya

Sri Lankan politician and a former MP
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IntroSri Lankan politician and a former MP
A.K.A.Henry Edmund Wijesuriya
A.K.A.Henry Edmund Wijesuriya
PlacesSri Lanka
wasPolitician
Work fieldPolitics
Gender
Male
Birth21 June 1919
Death13 March 1983 (aged 63 years)
Star signCancer
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Biography

Henry Edmund Wijesuriya (21 June 1919 – 3 October 2006) was a Sri Lankan politician who was a Member of Parliament from Maskeliya, and President of the All Ceylon Co-operative Federation.

Wijesuriya was elected from the Maskeliya electorate from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) in the 1960 July general election defeating the incumbent Donald J. Ranaweera from the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna. He was one of thirteen SLFP parliamentarians who crossed over to the opposition with C. P. de Silva on 3 December 1964 resulting in the defeat of the SLFP government under Sirima Bandaranaike. He contested the 1965 general election from the United National Party and won, but lost his seat in the 1970 general election.

Wijesuriya died on 3 October 2006, at the age of 87.

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