Ashoka Abeysinghe

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Ashoka Abeysinghe
MP
අශෝක අබේසිංහ
அசோக அபேசிங்க
Member of Parliament
for Kurunegala District
Assumed office
2010
Personal details
NationalitySri Lankan
Political party Samagi Jana Balawegaya
Other political
affiliations
United National Front for Good Governance United National Party
OccupationBusinessman

Ashoka Abeysinghe is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He belongs to the United National Party. [1] [2] He was the first mayor of Kurunegala from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, and later joined the United National Party. He was appointed the Deputy Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation after United National Party won the 2015 general elections.

In 2020, he joint the break away group led by opposition leader Sajith Premadasa to establish Samagi Jana Balawegaya. He was elected to parliament with that party in 2020.

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References

  1. "ASHOK ABEYSINGHE". Directory of Members. Parliament of Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 28 December 2012. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
  2. "Parliamentary Elections -2010" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2010. Retrieved 12 March 2013.