Chandrajith Ashuboda "Ashu" Marasinghe (born 25 May 1971) is a Sri Lankan politician, professor and academic. He served as an advisor to Sri Lankan president

Ranil Wickremesinghe Ranil Wickremesinghe (; ; born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the ninth president of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024. He has also served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1993–1994, 2001–2004, 2015–2018, 2018-2019 a ...

and also served as a former member of parliament of Sri Lanka. He was a

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proposed by United National Front following the

2015 Sri Lankan parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 17 August 2015, ten months ahead of schedule, to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 15th Parliament. The United National Party (UNP) led United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) won 106 s ...

and subsequently served in the

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as an MP. Marasinghe was educated at Nalanda Central College and

Ananda College Ananda College () is a Prestigious Buddhist school in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is often known as "The Pinnacle of buddhist education " It is the largest national Buddhist school for boys in Sri Lanka, with a student population exceeding 8000 ac ...

, before attending the

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, where he earned a B.Sc. in physics and mathematics in 1997. He later studied computer science and engineering at the University of Aizu, Japan, where he received his M.Sc. (2001) and PhD. (2004). He has taught at the

International University of Japan The is a private university located in Minamiuonuma city in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. IUJ is the first graduate university in Japan not offering undergraduate degrees, and one of the few Japanese universities which offers all courses in Eng ...

and was formerly an associate professor at

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. In December 2022, he resigned from his position as Presidential Advisor on Parliamentary Affairs due to allegations by a former girlfriend and by politician Hirunika Premachandra that he had sexually abused a pet dog. Marasinghe made a complaint at the

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, claiming that the allegations were baseless and that the video was doctored. He was re-appointed in the same post in February 2023.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marasinghe, Ashu 1971 births Living people Sri Lankan academics Sinhalese people Sri Lankan educators United National Party politicians Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka Alumni of the University of Colombo