D. V. Chanaka

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Hon.
D. V. Chanaka
MP
චානක දිනුෂාන්
சானக தினுஷன்
D V Chanaka.jpg
Member of Parliament
for Hambantota District
In office
2015–2020
Personal details
Born
Denagama Vitharanage Chanaka Dinushan

(1987-09-11) 11 September 1987 (age 35)
Galle, Sri Lanka
Political party United People's Freedom Alliance Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
RelationsD. V. Upul (father)
Residence(s)'Tharaka', Kudawella - South, Nakulugamuwa
Alma mater

Denagama Vitharanage Chanaka Dinushan (born 11 September 1987) is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He was elected as the United People's Freedom Alliance candidate, representing the Hambantota Electoral District at the general parliamentary elections held in August 2015. [1]

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Early life and education

Chanaka Dinushan was born in Galle to a Sinhala- Buddhist family, the son of D. V. Upul, a Provincial Council Minister (Southern Province) [2] and has two brothers and a sister. He spent his childhood in Kudawella, a fishing village in Tangalle. He was educated at Vijitha Central College, Dikwella before attending the American College of Higher Education in Galle. [3] He then entered the Southeast Missouri State University at Cape Girardeau, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management and Design. [3] Chanaka is currently reading for his master's degree in financial economics in the University of Colombo.

Career

After graduating from Southeast Missouri State University, he returned to Sri Lanka and started working in the construction field as the project manager in the Aarking Engineering construction company where he later became a director. He was also an active member in the Young Contractors Forum.

He was also an active volunteer, through which he became the chairman of the Pathuma Foundation.

He was appointed by the 2020 Rajapaksa government as State Minister of Aviation and Export Zones Development [4]

Parliamentary career

Chanaka contested the 2015 parliamentary elections, where aged 28, he was one of the youngest candidates. [2] He ran as the United People's Freedom Alliance candidate, in the Hambantota electorate receiving 51,939 votes and secured the fourth place among his party candidates. [5] In doing so he became the second youngest member of Parliament.

He currently serves as a member in the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Youth Affairs, Project Management and Southern Development. [1] In October 2017 he was arrested together with two other parliamentarians, Namal Rajapaksa and Prasanna Ranaweera and three provincial council members, in relation to a protest, against the proposed handover of the Magampura Mahinda Rajapaksa Port and Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport to foreign companies. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Hon. D. V. Chanaka, M.P." Parliament of Sri Lanka . Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  2. 1 2 Dissanayake, Chathuri (23 August 2015). "Family Jewels on Parade in New Parliament". The Sunday Times . Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  3. 1 2 Jayawardane, Ishara (18 February 2016). "Force must be forceful". The Daily News . Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  4. ↑ Pathirage, Saman. "parliament".
  5. ↑ "General Election 2015 : Hambantota district preferential votes announced". NewsFirst.lk. 18 August 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  6. ↑ Ariff, Yusuf (10 October 2017). "Namal, DV Chanaka, Ranaweera and 3 others arrested". Adaderana.lk. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
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