Tiran Alles, MP is a Sri Lankan businessman and politician. He is a current member of

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� ...

and the Minister of Public Security. Alles had entered politics as an ally of former General

Sarath Fonseka Field Marshal Gardihewa Sarath Chandralal Fonseka ( si, ගාර්දිහේවා සරත් චන්ද්‍රලාල් ෆොන්සේකා, ta, சரத் பொன்சேகா; born 18 December 1950), commonly know ...

and a member of parliament for Fonseka's Democratic National Alliance in 2010. Leaving parliament in 2015, he returned as a member of

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 Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and the leader of the United People's Party in 2020 and became a minister in 2022. He was the former Chairman of Airport and Aviation Services.

Early life

The eldest son of the late leading educationists R. I. T. Alles, he was educated at the

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 Janu ...

Business career

In 1988, he launched the company Communication & Business Equipment (CBE) with 10 employees. He also acted as the chairman of the

Bandaranaike International Airport Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) ( si, බණ්ඩාරනායක ජාත්‍යන්තර ගුවන්තොටුපළ, translit=Bandāranāyaka Jātyantara Guvantoṭupaḷa; ta, பண்டாரநாயக்க � ...

and launched a major expansion program of the airport. CBE also launched 2 newspapers: ''

Mawbima ''Mawbima'' (lit. Motherland) is a weekly Sinhala language newspaper that publishes news, letters, articles, and features related to Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, � ...

'' and ''

The Sunday Standard ''The Sunday Standard'' was an English-language weekly newspaper in Sri Lanka published by Standard Newspapers (Private) Limited, part of Communication and Business Equipment (Private) Limited (CBE). It was founded in 2006 and published from Colo ...

''. In 2002, he started a mobile telephony business in Sri Lanka after securing exclusive distribution rights, which led to a political controversy a few years later.

Political career

Tiran Alles worked for Mangala Samaraweera when he became the campaign manager for President

(2004–2005) of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. He was later accused of fomenting a pact, the Rajapaksa-LTTE pact, that led to the boycott of the 2005 elections in the north and east of the country, thus allowing Rajapaksa' victory. In 2010, he supported the electoral campaign of

Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP; ) is a Marxist–Leninist communist party and a former militant organization in Sri Lanka. The movement was involved in two armed uprisings against the government of Sri Lanka: once in 1971 (SLFP), and anothe ...

(JVP) and took part in General

's presidential campaign against Rajapaksa. After the election loss, he became the chairman of Fonseka's new alliance, the Democratic National Alliance (DNA), for the 2010 parliamentary election, of which the JVP had been a part. Although the alliance won a very little result in the election, he subsequently became a member of the Sri Lankan Parliament for the DNA through a national list seat. In 2020, he was reappointed to the Parliament through the national list of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, which has been led by new Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. In May 2022, when Rajapaksa had been resigned, he was appointed as the minister of Public Security in the new government.

References

Living people Alumni of Royal College, Colombo Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka Sinhalese businesspeople 1960 births {{SriLanka-politician-stub