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Professor Tissa Vitharana, a veteran left-wing politician in Sri Lanka, chief of the Lanka Sama Samaja Social gathering, and a former cupboard minister, has handed away. He was 91 years previous on the time of his dying and had been unwell for a while. He handed away yesterday (12) morning at his residence in Kotte.
Born on August 30, 1934, in Nuwara Eliya, Upali Tissa Vitharana’s father was Peiris Vitharana, an engineer, and his mom was Maggie Perera, niece of Dr. N. M. Perera, a distinguished chief of the Lanka Sama Samaja Social gathering. He studied at Trinity School, Kandy, and Ananda School, Colombo, and likewise performed cricket throughout his faculty days. He was married to Kamini Meedeniya they usually had a son named Ranil.
Professionally a medical physician, Tissa Vitharana obtained his Bachelor of Drugs and Bachelor of Surgical procedure (MBBS) diploma from the College of Ceylon in 1959, and later earned a Physician of Drugs (MD) diploma in Scientific Drugs. He additionally obtained a Diploma in Bacteriology from the London College of Hygiene and Tropical Drugs and a PhD in Virology from the College of London. From 1983 to 1994, he served because the Director of the Medical Analysis Institute (MRI) in Colombo and likewise labored as a advisor virologist in Edinburgh and Melbourne. After retirement, he served as a Professor of Microbiology on the College of Sri Jayewardenepura and as an advisor to the Ministry of Science and Know-how. In recognition of his excellent scientific service, he was awarded the ‘Vidya Jyothi’ nationwide award in 2017.
The Professor actively entered left-wing politics in Sri Lanka by becoming a member of the Lanka Sama Samaja Social gathering in 1974 and served within the legislature for over 15 years. In 2004, he first entered Parliament as a Nationwide Listing Member from the United Individuals’s Freedom Alliance and was appointed because the Minister of Science and Know-how. In 2010, he was re-elected to Parliament and served because the Minister of Know-how and Analysis, and later because the Senior Minister of Scientific Affairs. He additionally served because the Governor of the North Central Province from December 2019 to 2020, and his final entry into Parliament was representing the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna.
Throughout his political profession, he served as a member of quite a few consultative committees in Parliament representing numerous fields similar to Energy and Power, Schooling, Indigenous Drugs, Know-how and Analysis, Coverage Planning and Financial Affairs, Kids and Youth, Well being, Business and Commerce, in addition to Provincial Councils and Native Growth. He raised a reasonable left-wing voice for energy devolution, minority points, and post-war reconciliation, and made important contributions to public well being and scientific governance within the nation.
Though he was marked within the nation’s political historical past as a veteran left-wing mental with a scientific background, an announcement he made in Parliament in 2023 concerning his entry into the celebration workplace in Union Place led to sturdy criticism from different leaders of the Sama Samaja Social gathering, thereby revealing sure inside divisions throughout the celebration in current occasions.
Particulars concerning the ultimate rites of the late Professor Tissa Vitharana are anticipated to be introduced in the end.