page_title: Felix Dias Bandaranaike
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Felix Dias Bandaranaike / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Mrs.Lakshmie Dias Bandaranaike
context_page_description: Felix R. Dias Bandaranaike was a Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, who served as Cabinet Minister of Finance, Parliamentary Secretary for the Prime Minister and Defence and External Affairs and Cabinet Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Prime Minister Sirima Bandaranaike. He was a very popular person about the anti-corruption campaign and also known as the "virtual leader of the state" during the SLFP governments after the death of Prime minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. He was very active in defeating two major coups against the government, one is 1962 attempted military coup and JVP's 1971 JVP Insurrection.
context_section_description: Felix Dias Bandaranaike married Elizabeth Muthulakshmi Jayasundera (known as Lakshmie Dias Bandaranaike) in 1953. She is a graduate of the University of Ceylon and Ceylon Law College and later became a member of the Inner Temple. They had a daughter named Christine. The family lived in the historic Maha Nuge Gardens in Colombo and he had his country seat at Weke Walawwa in Kirindawela.
caption: Mrs.Lakshmie Dias Bandaranaike 
  (wife of Felix Dias Bandaranaike)
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