parliament constituency_mp nationality party office term_start article_title term_end name otherparty
sri lanka matara district sri lanka sri lankan united national party -lrb- democratic -rrb- minister ocean resources minister of special projects of forestry & environment minister of fisheries & 2000 2001 2007 1989 mahinda wijesekara
 2001 2004 2010 2010 mahinda wijesekara united people 's freedom alliance
mahinda wijesekara

mahinda wijesekara is a sri lankan politician , former fisheries cabinet minister and a former member of the parliament of sri lanka .
in 2001 , wijesekara left the president chandrika kumaratunga 's ruling sri lanka freedom party and joined united national party along with few other senior ministers of the government such as s. b. dissanayake and g. l. peiris .
he was a member of the working committee of unp and the party organizer for weligama .
however , in 2006 unp leader ranil wickramasinghe removed from all of his positions in the party as a result of internal crisis against the leadership .
on 2007 , wijesekara again crossed over to united people 's freedom alliance government .
he was the telecommunications minister in the government .
he was injured in a suicide bombing in 2009 .
