Sajith Premadasa

**Sajith Premadasa**, MP (, ; born 12 January 1967) is a Sri Lankan politician. He is the current Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka since 2020. He is also a Member of Parliament for Colombo District.

Premadasa is the son of Ranasinghe Premadasa, who was the President of Sri Lanka from 1989 to 1993. He studied at S. Thomas' Preparatory School, Royal College, Colombo and Mill Hill School before entering London School of Economics.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Sajith Premadasa
- **honorific-prefix**: The Honourable, Hon.
- **honorific-suffix**: Member of Parliament, MP
- **native name**:

- **image**: Sajith Premadasa (portrait).png
- **caption**: Sajith in 2016
- **office1**: 15th Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka), Leader of the Opposition
- **president1**: Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Ranil Wickremesinghe
Anura Kumara Dissanayake
- **primeminister1**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
Ranil Wickremesinghe
 Dinesh Gunawardena
 Harini Amarasuriya
- **term start1**: 3 January 2020
- **predecessor1**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **office3**: Ministry of Housing and Construction (Sri Lanka), Minister of Housing, Construction and Cultural Affairs
- **president3**: Maithripala Sirisena
- **primeminister3**: Ranil Wickremesinghe
- **term start3**: 20 December 2018
- **term end3**: 17 November 2019
- **predecessor3**: Wimal Weerawansa
- **successor3**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
- **president4**: Maithripala Sirisena
- **primeminister4**: Ranil Wickremesinghe
- **term start4**: 12 January 2015
- **term end4**: 26 October 2018
- **predecessor4**: Wimal Weerawansa
- **successor4**: Wimal Weerawansa
- **office12**: Member of Constitutional Council (Sri Lanka)
- **president12**: Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Ranil Wickremesinghe
- **primeminister12**: Mahinda Rajapaksa
Ranil Wickremesinghe
Dinesh Gunawardena
- **term start12**: 29 October 2020
- **office2**: Leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya
- **term start2**: 11 February 2020
- **predecessor2**: _Position Established_
- **office10**: Deputy Leader of the United National Party
- **term start10**: 2014
- **term end10**: 2020
- **predecessor10**: Karu Jayasuriya
- **successor10**: Ruwan Wijewardene
- **term start11**: 2011
- **term end11**: 2013
- **predecessor11**: Karu Jayasuriya
- **successor11**: Karu Jayasuriya
- **constituency mp8**: Hambantota Electoral District, Hambantota District
- **parliament8**: Sri Lankan
- **majority8**: 112,645 Preferential Votes
- **term start8**: 18 October 2000
- **term end8**: 3 March 2020
- **constituency mp7**: Colombo Electoral District, Colombo District
- **parliament7**: Sri Lankan
- **majority7**: 305,744 Preferential Votes
- **term start7**: 20 August 2020
- **office6**: Deputy Minister of Health
- **president6**: Chandrika Kumaratunga
- **primeminister6**: Ranil Wickremesinghe
- **term start6**: 2001
- **term end6**: 2004
- **birth place**: Colombo, Dominion of Ceylon
- **education**: Royal College, Colombo
- **children**: 1
- **parents**: Ranasinghe Premadasa
Hema Premadasa
- **alma mater**: London School of Economics
University of Maryland
- **profession**: Politician
- **party**: Samagi Jana Balawegaya
- **otherparty**: United National Party
- **website**: [https://sajithpremadasa.lk/ Official website]