P. B. Bulankulame

Sooriyakumara Wannisinghe Punchi Banda Bulankulame, OBE, JP (known as P. B. Bulankulame Dissawa) (12 December 1890 - 17 December 1958) was a Ceylonese politician, who was the former Cabinet Minister of Lands and Land Development in Dudley Senanayake's and John Kotelawala's government.[1]

Hon.

P. B. Bulankulame Dissawa

OBE, JP
Member of the Ceylon Parliament
for Anuradhapura
In office
1947–1956
Preceded byseat created
Succeeded bySirimewan Godage
Personal details
Born
Sooriyakumara Wannisinghe Punchi Banda Bulankulame

(1890-12-12)12 December 1890
Anuradhapura
Died17 December 1958(1958-12-17) (aged 68)
Ceylon
NationalityCeylonese
Political partyUnited National Party
Alma materRoyal College, Colombo
OccupationPolitics
ProfessionProctor

Educated at the Royal College Colombo and the Ceylon Law College becoming a Proctor and was appointed a Justice of Peace. He was elected to the 2nd State Council of Ceylon on 21 April 1944, following the death of the sitting member, H. R. Freeman. [2] In 1947 he was elected to first Parliament of Ceylon. In the first government since independence, he was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Lands. He was awarded the title of Dissawa by the British Governor of Ceylon. He was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1949 New Year Honours and later made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 1951 Birthday Honours.[3][4]

See also

References
  1. Sri Lanka: The Untold Story
  2. The battle of the Gulliver and the Lilliputian
  3. First cabinet had only 14 ministers
  4. Late Deshamanya E. L. B. Hurulle
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