page_title: Sajith Premadasa
hierarchical_section_title: Sajith Premadasa
caption_attribution_description: Ex Leader of the Opposition Party, the main Opposition party of Sri Lanka and Member of Parliament
context_page_description: Sajith Premadasa, MP is a Sri Lankan politician. He is the current Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka and Member of Parliament for Colombo District. He is the current leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya
  Premadasa is the son of Ranasinghe Premadasa, the President of Sri Lanka. He was educated at Royal College, Colombo and Mill Hill School before entering London School of Economics. He was doing his postgraduate studies at the University of Maryland when his father was assassinated in 1993. He returned to Sri Lanka and entered politics, representing the Hambantota District, having joined the United National Party. He was elected to parliament in 2000 and was appointed Deputy Minister of Health in 2001, serving until 2004. He was appointed deputy leader of the United National Party in 2011 and was appointed Cabinet Minister of Housing and Samurdhi in President Sirisena's national government in 2015. He contested the 2019 Presidential Election in November 2019 as the Presidential Candidate from United National Front, in which he polled second. In December 2019, he was appointed as the leader of the opposition and a member of the Constitutional Council.
context_section_description: Sajith Premadasa, MP  (Sinhala : සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස, Tamil : சஜித் பிரேமதாச) (born 12 January 1967) is a Sri Lankan politician. He is the current Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka  and Member of Parliament for Colombo District. He is the current leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya
  Premadasa is the son of Ranasinghe Premadasa, the President of Sri Lanka (1989 – 1993). He was educated at Royal College, Colombo and Mill Hill School before entering London School of Economics. He was doing his postgraduate studies at the University of Maryland when his father was assassinated in 1993. He returned to Sri Lanka and entered politics, representing the Hambantota District, having joined the United National Party. He was elected to parliament in 2000 and was appointed Deputy Minister of Health in 2001, serving until 2004. He was appointed deputy leader of the United National Party in 2011 and was appointed Cabinet Minister of Housing and Samurdhi in President Sirisena's national government in 2015. He contested the 2019 Presidential Election in November 2019 as the Presidential Candidate from United National Front, in which he polled second. In December 2019, he was appointed as the leader of the opposition and a member of the Constitutional Council (Sri Lanka). On 30 January 2020, he was selected as the leader (hence Prime Ministerial candidate) of a new UNP lead alliance.
caption: Sajith Premadasa
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