Rishad Bathiudeen

Rishad Bathiudeen
Ministry of Industry and Commerce
In office
23 April 2010 – 3 July 2019
PresidentMaithripala Sirisena
Mahinda Rajapaksa
Prime MinisterRanil Wickremesinghe
D. M. Jayaratne
Minister of Resettlement & Disaster Relief Services
Member of Parliament
for Vanni District
Assumed office
2001
Personal details
Born (1972-11-27) November 27, 1972 (age 51)
NationalitySri Lankan
Political partyAll Ceylon Makkal Congress
Other political
affiliations
Samagi Jana Balawegaya
Residence(s)26B Summit Flats, Keppetipola Mawatha, Colombo 05
Alma materUniversity of Moratuwa
ProfessionCivil Engineer
Websitehttp://www.rishadbathiudeen.lk,

Rishad Bathiudeen is a Sri Lankan parliamentarian and former senior cabinet minister. He is the leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) Party, a registered political party in Sri Lanka. Bathiudeen was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) from the Vanni Electoral District in December 2001 and was re-elected in April 2004, after which he was again re-elected in April 2010 and 2015 June from the same Electoral District which comprises Vavuniya, Mannar and Mullathivu Administrative Districts. Rishad Bathiudeen holds a National Diploma in Technology (NDT) in Civil Engineering from the University of Moratuwa.

On 19 October 2020, he was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department during a raid in Dehiwela, where he is charged with criminal misappropriation of public funds, and violation of election laws with regard to the transportation of IDPs in government-owned SLTB buses to vote at the 2019 presidential election.[1]

  1. ^ "Rishad Bathiudeen arrested by CID". News First. 19 October 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2020.