R. C. Kannangara

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Richard Charles Kannangara (15 June 1920 - 14 October 1946) was a Ceylonese tea plantation owner and politician. [1]

On 3 March 1936 Kannangara was elected to the 2nd State Council of Ceylon representing Morawaka. Kannangara defeated the sitting member, Dr. S. A. Wickramasinghe, of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party by a margin of 2,910 votes. [2] [3] Kannangara was superintendent and owner of a tea plantation in Deniyaya, [4] [5] and his campaign was backed by Sir Don Baron Jayatilaka, the Leader of the House and Minister for Home Affairs. [6] After his election to the State Council he joined the Sinhala Maha Sabha. [7] Kannangara sat on the Executive Committee on Agriculture and Lands. [8] He died whilst still in office on 14 October 1946. [9] At the subsequent by-election in 1947 Wickramasinghe was elected by a majority of 23,823 votes, and sat for a brief period on the Council until it was disbanded in July 1947. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Hon. Kannangara, Richard Charles, M.P." Parliament of Sri Lanka . Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  2. ↑ Abeynayake, Stanley S. (1 September 2012). "Thirty first death anniversary of Dr S A Wickremasinghe: A medical doctor turned Marxist leader". The Daily News . Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  3. ↑ Amarasinghe, Y. Ranjith (2000). Revolutionary Idealism and Parliamentary Politics: A Study of Trotskyism in Sri Lanka. Social Scientists' Association. p. 42.
  4. ↑ "Planters Register: R. C. Kannangara". History of Ceylon Tea. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  5. ↑ Wijesinghe, Sam (25 December 2005). "D. A. Rajapaksa Memorial Oration". Sunday Observer . Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  6. ↑ Fernando, W. Annesley Sumith (16 June 2011). "Unforgettable personalities: Comrade Dr. S. A. Wickremasinghe". The Daily News . Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  7. ↑ Weligamage, Deshakeerthi Chandrasiri (3 September 2003). "A brief history of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party". The Daily News . Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  8. ↑ Ferguson's Ceylon Directory. Colombo: The Ceylon Observer Press. 1946. p. 44.
  9. ↑ "The Tea Quarterly: The Journal of the Tea Research Institute of Ceylon". 17–20. Tea Research Institute of Ceylon. 1944: 26.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ↑ Abeynaike, H. B. W.; Ameratunga, H. P. (1970). "Parliament of Ceylon". Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited: 91.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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