Jeyaraj Fernandopulle
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The Honourable Jeyaraj Fernandopulle MP |
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| Minister of Highways and Road Development | |
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In office 23 November 2005 – 6 April 2008 |
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| President | Mahinda Rajapaksa |
| Prime Minister | Ratnasiri Wickremanayake |
| Minister of Trade, Commerce and Consumer Affairs | |
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In office 10 April 2004 – 28 January 2007 |
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| President | Mahinda Rajapaksa Chandrika Kumaratunga |
| Prime Minister | Ratnasiri Wickremanayake Mahinda Rajapaksa |
| Minister of Civil Aviation and Airports Development | |
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In office 19 October 2000 – 2001 |
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| President | Chandrika Kumaratunga |
| Prime Minister | Ratnasiri Wickremanayake |
| Chief Government Whip | |
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In office 3 May 2004 – 6 April 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Mahinda Samarasinghe |
| Succeeded by | Dinesh Gunawardena |
| Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament for Gampaha District |
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In office 1989 – 6 April 2008 |
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| Succeeded by | Dulip Wijeysekara |
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11 January 1953 Welihena, Dominion of Ceylon |
| Died | April 6, 2008 (aged 55) Weliveriya, Sri Lanka |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Political party | Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
| Other political affiliations |
United People's Freedom Alliance People's Alliance |
| Spouse(s) | Sudarshani Fernandopulle |
| Children | Samurdhi and Bhanuka |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Jeyaraj Fernandopulle (Sinhalese: ජෙයරාජ් ප්රනාන්දුපුල්ලේ, Tamil: ஜெயராஜ் பெர்னான்டோபுள்ளே, January 11, 1953 – April 6, 2008) was a Sri Lankan politician who served as a cabinet Minister and a Member of Parliament in Sri Lanka. He was a Roman Catholic and hailed from a minority ethnic group Colombo Chetties.
Fernandopulle was born on the January 11, 1953 in Walihena, Kochchikade (about 12 km north of Negombo).
He has done the preliminary education (up to grade 1) at Ave Maria Convent, Negombo, then entered Maris Stella College, Negombo for primary and secondary education. In 1972 Fernandopulle became a teacher after leaving the school, but left teaching to become a lawyer in 1974. He passed out from the Sri Lanka Law College in 1977 as an Attorney-at-law. One of his contemporaries at the Law College was President Mahinda Rajapakse who was a MP at that time. Since December 1977 he started practicing as a lawyer mainly in the Magistrates Court and High Court of Negombo and in other criminal courts island wide.
He began his political career in 1970 as an election agent for an Sri Lanka Freedom Party candidate. In 1984 he was appointed as the chief organizer by the SLFP in the Katana electorate, Western Province in Sri Lanka. From there onwards he has been elected to the parliament five consecutive times in the years 1989, 1994, 2000, 2001 and 2004. Fernandopulle held several Ministerial posts since 1994, which were the Minister of Catholic Affairs, the Minister of Ethnic Concession and National Unity, the Minister of Port and Aviation, and the Minister of Road Development. In 2005 he was appointed Minister of Highways & Road Development, served as the chief government whip of the parliament and was a close associate of the President.
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