Punchi Banda Bulankulame Dissava

Dissava

Dissava was a feudal title associated with high office in the Kandian and central region of Sri Lanka. Persons were appointed to the title and office by the King during the Kingdom of Kandy, these appointees headed the administration of a large province of the Kingdom known as a Dissava and was the...

 (known as P.B Bulankulame) was a Ceylonese politician, he was the former Cabinet Minister of Land and Land Development in Dudley Senanayake

Dudley Senanayake

Dudley Shelton Senanayake was a Ceylonese politician, who became the second Prime Minister of Ceylon and went on to become prime minister on 2 more times during the 1950s and 1960s.-Early life:Dudley was born on 19 June, 1911 as the eldest son to Molly Dunuwila and Don Stephen Senanayake, who...

's and John Kotelawala

John Kotelawala

General Sir John Lionel Kotelawala, KBE, CH, KStJ, CLI was a Sri Lankan soldier and politician, most notable for serving as the 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon from 1953 to 1956....

's government.

Educated at Royal College Colombo

Royal College Colombo

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, he was elected to the State Council of Ceylon

State Council of Ceylon

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 in 1936 and was reelected to Parliament in 1947. In the first government since independence, he was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary

Parliamentary Secretary

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for Agriculture.