Wijekoon Mudiyanselage Manjula Wijekoon Dissanayake (born 27 January 1967) 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 politician, former provincial councillor and

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

. Dissanayake was born on 27 January 1967. She is the widow of former government minister

Salinda Dissanayake Salinda Dissanayake (1 May 1958 – 5 August 2019) was a Sri Lankan politician. He was member of Parliament from Kurunegala District Kurunegala is a district in North Western Province, Sri Lanka. Consists of and consists 30 Divisional S ...

. She served as her husband's

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. She was a member of the

North Western Provincial Council North Western Province ( si, වයඹ පළාත ''Wayamba Paḷāta'', ta, வட மேல் மாகாணம் ''Vada Mael Mākāṇam'') is a province of Sri Lanka. The province consists of the districts of Kurunegala and Puttalam. I ...

. Following the 2020 parliamentary election she was appointed to the

Parliament of Sri Lanka The Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ''Shri Lanka Parlimenthuwa'', Tamil: இலங்கை நாடாளுமன்றம் ''Ila� ...

as a

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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 ...

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1967 births Living people Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka Members of the North Western Provincial Council Sri Lankan Buddhists Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance politicians Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna politicians United People's Freedom Alliance politicians Women legislators in Sri Lanka {{NorthWesternLK-politician-stub