Prasanna Ranatunga

Hon.
Prasanna Ranatunga
MP
ප්‍රසන්න රණතුංග
பிரசன்ன ரணதுங்கா
Minister of Urban Development and Housing
In office
14 May 2022 – 23 September 2024
PresidentGotabaya Rajapaksa
Ranil Wickramasinghe
Prime MinisterRanil Wickramasinghe
Dinesh Gunawardena
Preceded byMahinda Rajapaksa
Chief Government Whip
In office
18 April 2022 – 24 September 2024
PresidentGotabaya Rajapaksa
Ranil Wickramasinghe
Preceded byJohnston Fernando
Succeeded byNalinda Jayatissa
Minister of Public Security
In office
18 April 2022 – 9 May 2022
PresidentGotabaya Rajapaksa
Prime MinisterMahinda Rajapaksa
Preceded bySarath Weerasekara
Succeeded byTiran Alles
Minister of Tourism
In office
12 August 2020 – 9 May 2022
PresidentGotabaya Rajapaksa
Prime MinisterMahinda Rajapaksa
Preceded byJohn Amaratunga
Succeeded byHarin Fernando
7th Chief Minister of Western Province
In office
4 May 2009 – 1 September 2015
Preceded byReginald Cooray
Succeeded byIsura Devapriya
Member of Parliament
for Gampaha District
In office
1 September 2015 – 24 September 2024
Personal details
Born (1967-01-01) 1 January 1967 (age 57)
Sri Lanka
Political partySri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
SpouseMaureen
RelationsReggie (father)
Arjuna (brother)
Nishantha (brother)
Dammika (brother)
Sanjeeva (brother)
Ruwan (brother)
ChildrenArchana, Pavithra, Udara
Alma materAsoka College/ Ananda College

Prasanna Ranatunga (born 1 January 1967) is a Sri Lankan politician, former member of parliament, a former Minister of Urban Development and Housing. He was also appointed as the Chief Government Whip on 18 April 2022.[1][2] He was the 7th Chief Minister of Western Province, Sri Lanka.

He belongs to the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and is part of the Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance.[3] He is the brother of former Sri Lanka cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga.[4][5][6][7] Ranatunga entered parliament in 2015 from Gampaha District as an opposition member. Ranatunga received a vote count of 384,448 in the 2015 parliamentary elections.

On 6 June 2022, he was sentenced to two years of rigorous imprisonment suspended for five years, after he was found guilty of threatening a businessman from whom he solicited a bribe of Rs. 64 million to evict unauthorised occupants of a parcel of land.[8]

  1. ^ "Prasanna Ranatunga assumes duties as Chief Government Whip". Colombo Gazette. 19 April 2022. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  2. ^ "Minister Ranatunga new Chief Government Whip". The Island. 19 April 2022. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  3. ^ Western Province Chief Ministers
  4. ^ Prasanna - New Chief Minister of WP
  5. ^ "Western Province council". Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
  6. ^ "UPFA confident of victory at LG Polls - Prasanna Ranatunga". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
  7. ^ Western Province Prasaana Ranatunga Archived 17 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Prasanna Ranatunga sentenced to 2-year RI, suspended for five years". Sri Lanka News - Newsfirst. 6 June 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.