Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi
Sri Lankan politician
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| Intro | Sri Lankan politician | |
| Places | Sri Lanka | |
| was | Politician | |
| Work field | Politics | |
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| Birth | 6 November 1929 | |
| Death | 24 October 1994 (aged 65 years) |
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Member of Parliament from 1977 to 1994
Deputy Mayor Colombo 1970-1971 Member Colombo Municipal Council 1962-1977 District Minister of Colombo 1978-1988 Minister of Petroleum Services 1988-1989 State Minister of Industries 1989-1990 Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi (d. October 24, 1994) was the Cabinet Minister of Food / Co-operative and Janasaviya) of United National Party government from 1990-94. He was elected to parliament in 1977 & re-elected in 1989 and in 1994 from the Kolonnawa electorate in Colombo district. Parliamentary election of 1994. But his political life was cut short when he was assassinated by a female suicide bomber of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) while attending an election rally in support of Gamini Dissanayake, for the Presidential election of 1994.