Mutu Banda Weerasekera Mediwake was a

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n educator and politician. He served as the Minister of Local Government and Housing, Member of Parliament and Member of Senate of Ceylon. Mediwake gained a Teachers' Training Certificate (First Class) in English and Sinhalese and went on the serve as the Principal of Vidyartha College, Kandy. During

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, he served as the chief civilian liaison officer of the Headquarters of the Allied Land Forces South East Asia in

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. He was elected to the

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from the

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in the 1956 general election. He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Local Government and Cultural Affairs by

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (8 January 1899 – 26 September 1959), also known as "The Silver Bell of Asia" (ආසියාවේ රිදී සීනුව), was a Sri Lankan statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of ...

and in November 1959 he was appointed Minister of Local Government and Housing succeeding

Vimala Wijewardene Vimala Wijewardene (Vimala; ''née'' Silva; 7 August 1908 – 27 January 1994) was a Ceylonese politician and the country's first female cabinet minister. Marriage and family Following the death of her older sister, Vimala married her sist ...

when she was dismissed from the cabinet of ministers following her arrest in connection to the Bandaranaike assassination. He served till March 1960 and was appointed to the

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. He established the Kandyan Scholarship Fund.

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Housing ministers of Sri Lanka Local government and provincial councils ministers of Sri Lanka Members of the 3rd Parliament of Ceylon Members of the Senate of Ceylon Parliamentary secretaries of Ceylon Sinhalese people Sri Lankan teachers Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians {{CentralLK-politician-stub