Ajith Perera
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Honourable Ajith Perera MP |
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| Deputy Minister of Power and Renewable Energy | |
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Assumed office 9 September 2015 |
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| Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 12 January 2015 – 17 August 2015 |
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| Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament for Kalutara |
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Assumed office 2010 |
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| Political party | United National Party |
| Alma mater | Ananda College, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka Law College |
| Profession | Attorney-at-Law, |
| Religion | Buddhist |
Ajith Perera is a Sri Lankan politician and current member of Parliament, who commenced his political career as a member of the Provincial Council of the Western Provincial Council in 2009. A lawyer by profession, he was first elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka in 2010 as a member of the United National Party from the Kalutara District. He was re-elected to the Parliament in 2015. He is the current Deputy Minister of " Power & Renewable Energy". Earlier he was appointed the deputy minister of Foreign affairs in January 2015.
He is a lawyer by profession and alumnus of University of Sri Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka, Law College and Ananda College, Colombo. He was born on December 2, 1967 in Bandaragama, a suburban town in Kalutara district.
He started his primary education at Wewita Maithree Maha Vidyalaya in Bandaragama,. His excellent achievement in the grade five scholarship examination, paved the way for him to enter Ananda College, the premier Buddhist school in Sri Lanka to pursue his secondary education. At Ananda, he gained recognition for his outstanding performances in academics, debating and athletics. Following his secondary education he entered the University of Sri Jayawardenapura to read for a Bachelor of Science Degree at the Faculty of Applied Science. There too his peers elected him as a student representative of the Faculty Board.
In 1987, he was selected to the Sri Lanka Law College and enrolled as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 1993. He sharpened his political acumen as a law student, gaining reputation as a political strategist within the student political sphere. He was a regular and ardent speaker at the Law Students Union and was elected as Speaker of the Model Parliament in recognition of his contribution to the political arena of the Law College.
His legal career as a leading Counsel in Civil and Criminal jurisdictions in the Panadura Courts, a suburban area within the district of Kalutara, spans over two decades. As a lawyer, he has gained popularity and recognition in the bar, bench and among the litigants as an able and fearless defender of justice and human rights.
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