Ratnayake Mudiyanselage Gunasekera was a

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

member of parliament in 1960, from

Bibile Bibile (also Bibila) is an attractive tourist destination located in Monaragala District, Uva Province of Sri Lanka. It was called Wellassa during the Kandy kingdom, which related to 100,000 paddy fields. The agricultural region was historically k ...

. Born in the village of Medagam Pattuwa in

, his father was the Ratnayake Mudiyanselage Kiribanda was the

Village Headman A village head, village headman or village chief is the community leader of a village or a small town. Usage Brunei In Brunei, village head is called or in the Malay language. It is an administrative post which leads the community of a ...

. Gunasekera was elected to parliament from the

United National Party The United National Party (UNP; , ) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right political party in Sri Lanka. Founded in 1946, the party was one of Sri Lanka's two main parties for several decades. The UNP has served as the country's ruling party ...

in the March 1960 general election from

, but lost his seat in the July 1960 general election to D. M. Gunasekera. He was shot dead by an unknown assassin and his brother Dharmadasa Banda succeed him as the United National Party organizer for Bibile. His son

Ranjith Madduma Bandara Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage Ranjith Madduma Bandara (born 25 August 1954) is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He served as Minister of Law and Order and Minister of Public Administration and Management from March ...

served as a member of the parliament.

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