Jayantha Weerasinghe (born 13 September 1950) is a
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
n lawyer, politician and
Member of Parliament.
Weerasinghe was born on 13 September 1950.
He was educated at
Royal College, Colombo
Royal College, Colombo is a selective entry boys' school located in Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Started as a private school by Rev Joseph Marsh in 1835, it was established as the Colombo Academy by Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton in Janua ...
.
He has a
LLB degree from the
University of Colombo.
He became a
President's Counsel in 2010.
Weerasinghe is
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa
Mahinda Rajapaksa ( si, මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ, ta, மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ; born Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa; 18 November 1945) is a Sri Lankan politician. He served as the President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to ...
's
legal advisor. Following the
2020 parliamentary election he was appointed to the
Parliament of Sri Lanka as a
National List
The National List ( he, רשימה ממלכתית, ''Reshima Mamlakhtit''), sometimes translated as the State List, was a political party in Israel. Despite being founded by David Ben-Gurion, one of the fathers of the Israeli left, the party is ...
MP representing the
Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance
The Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance (abbreviated SLPFA; si, ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පොදුජන සන්ධානය, translit=Śrī Laṃkā Nidahas Podujana Sandhānaya; ta, ஶ்ரீ லங்கா ப ...
.
References
1950 births
Alumni of Royal College, Colombo
Alumni of the University of Colombo
Living people
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
President's Counsels (Sri Lanka)
Sinhalese people
Sri Lankan lawyers
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna politicians
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