Sooriyakumara Wannisinghe Punchi Banda Bulankulame,

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

, JP (known as P. B. Bulankulame or Tikiri Bandara Bulankulama Dissawa) (12 December 1890 - 17 December 1958) was a Ceylonese politician, who was the former

Cabinet Minister A minister is a politician who heads a ministry, making and implementing decisions on policies in conjunction with the other ministers. In some jurisdictions the head of government is also a minister and is designated the ‘prime minister’, � ...

of Lands and Land Development in Dudley Senanayake's and

John Kotelawala General Sir John Lionel Kotelawala ( si, ශ්‍රිමත් ජෝන් ලයනල් කොතලාවල; 4 April 1897 – 2 October 1980) was a Sri Lankan statesman, who served as the 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) fro ...

's government.

Education and legal career

Educated at the Royal College Colombo where he played in the Royal-Thomian. He then studied law at the Ceylon Law College becoming a

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. Having established his legal practice in his home town of Anuradhapura, he was later appointed a

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Political career

Bulankulame was elected to the

2nd State Council of Ceylon The 2nd State Council of Ceylon was a meeting of the State Council of Ceylon, with the membership determined by the results of the 1936 state council election held between 22 February and 7 March 1936. The parliament met for the first time on 1 ...

on 21 April 1944, following the death of the sitting member,

H. R. Freeman Herbert Rayner Freeman (6 March 1864 - April 1945) was an English born Ceylonese public servant and politician. Herbert Rayner Freeman was born in Suffolk, England on 6 March 1864, was educated at Marlborough College, England (between 1878 and 18 ...

. In 1947 he was elected in the 1947 general election from Anuradhapura to first Parliament of Ceylon. In the first government since independence, he was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Lands. He was re-elected in the 1952 general election and was appointed Cabinet Minister Lands and Land Development in the cabinet of Sir

, serving till 1956. He lost his seat in the 1956 general election to

Sirimewan Godage Sirimevan Godage (?? - 1962) was a Ceylonese politician. He was a member of parliament in 1956 to 1962 from Anuradhapura A former office assistant, Godage contested the 1956 general election from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in Anuradhapura and ...

Honors

He was awarded the title of '' Dissawa of Anuradhapura'' by the British Governor of Ceylon. He was appointed

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(MBE) in the

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and later made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the

1951 Birthday Honours The King's Birthday Honours 1951 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the o ...

.Late Deshamanya E. L. B. Hurulle
/ref> The Bulankulama Disawa Mawatha in Anuradhapura is named after him.

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Education and legal career

Political career

Honors

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