Somawansa Amarasinghe

Somawansha Amarasinghe
සෝමවංශ අමරසිංහ
4th Leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
In office
1 January 1990 – 2 February 2014
Preceded byLalith Wijerathna
Succeeded byAnura Kumara Dissanayake
Personal details
Born
Amarasinghe Kankanamlage Somawansa

(1943-01-01)1 January 1943
Payagala, Kalutara
Died15 June 2016(2016-06-15) (aged 73)
Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka
NationalitySri Lankan
Political partyJanatha Vimukthi Peramuna
People’s Servants Party
EducationKalutara Vidyalaya
OccupationPolitician

Amarasinghe Kankanamlage Somawansa (1 January 1943 – 15 June 2016 as Sinhala: සෝමවංශ අමරසිංහ),[1] commonly as Somawansha Amarasinghe, was a Sri Lankan politician, and the 4th leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, after Rohana Wijeweera, Saman Piyasiri Fernando and Lalith Wijerathna and served as its leader for 23 years until February 2, 2014.[2] He is often described as a strategic leader who socialized the ideological struggle of the JVP into socialism through the nationalist struggle to save the country from Tamil separatist terrorism.[3]

He was the leader of People's Servants Party, established in June 2015, until his death.

  1. ^ "Somawansa no more". Daily Mirror. 15 June 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Former JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe passes away". Ada Derana. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  3. ^ "The red mark that went out in the light of the JVP; Somawansa Amarasinghe". Silumina. Retrieved 7 June 2021.