Bulathsinghalage Sirisena Cooray,
JP (25 April 1931 – 30 November 2021) was a Sri Lankan politician.
Biography
He was the
Mayor of Colombo
The Mayor of Colombo is the Mayor (and head) of the Colombo Municipal Council. The post was created in 1866 when the Colombo Municipal Council was established by the Legislative Council of Ceylon. The Mayor is assisted by the Deputy Mayor and a ...
from 1979 to 1989 and was elected from
Colombo
Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo me ...
to Parliament in the
9th parliamentary election in 1989. He was appointed
Minister of Housing and Construction in the
Premadasa cabinet
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. He had served as
General Secretary
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of the
United National Party
The United National Party, often abbreviated as UNP ( si, එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය, translit=Eksath Jāthika Pakshaya, ta, ஐக்கிய தேசியக் கட்சி, translit=Aikkiya Tēciyak Kaṭci), ...
during the tenure of party leader
Ranasinghe Premadasa
Sri Lankabhimanya Ranasinghe Premadasa ( si, රණසිංහ ප්රේමදාස ''Raṇasiṃha Premadāsa'', ta, ரணசிங்க பிரேமதாசா ''Raṇaciṅka Pirēmatācā''; 23 June 1924 – 1 May 1993) was t ...
. He submitted nominations for the
Colombo Municipal Council
The Colombo Municipal Council is the municipal governing body of Colombo, the largest city and financial centre in Sri Lanka. It consists of a directly elected executive Mayor of Colombo, current elect is Rosy Senanayake, and 119 elected 119 muni ...
elections in 2006 as the Mayor, however his party nominations list was rejected by the election commission on a technicality. The independent party backed by Sirisena won the election and
Uvais Mohamed Imitiyas
Uvais Mohamed Imitiyas was the Mayor of Colombo from 2006 to 2011. Imtiyas was an Auto rickshaw driver from an impoverished background who contested local government elections on an independent ticket. At that stage he had no realistic chance of ...
became Mayor.
His brother Nandasena Cooray was a one time Deputy Mayor of Colombo and was married to the sister of the former
JVP leader
Somawansa Amarasinghe
Amarasinghe Kankanamlage Somawansa (1 January 1943 – 15 June 2016 as si, සෝමවංශ අමරසිංහ), commonly as Somawansha Amarasinghe, was a Sri Lankan politician, and the 4th leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, after Rohana ...
. Cooray died on 30 November 2021 at Colombo, aged 90 years.
See also
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List of Sri Lankan non-career diplomats
This is a list of Sri Lankan non-career diplomats, who have been appointed by Government of Sri Lanka as Ambassadors and High Commissioners, but are not Career diplomats by profession, meaning they are not from the Sri Lanka Foreign Service, but ...
References
1931 births
2021 deaths
Housing ministers of Sri Lanka
Mayors of Colombo
Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan justices of the peace
Sinhalese politicians
United National Party politicians
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