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colombo sri lankan 04 august 1965 university of moratuwa taxila central college , horana electrical & power engineer 2015-01-12 dmy 2010-04-10 dmy minister , research and atomic energy of environment & natural resources ministry of technology champika ranawaka.jpg '' චම ප ක රණවක ` patali champika ranawaka '' ' ප ඨල politician pavithra devi wanniarachchi sri lankan sri lanka maithripala sirisena jathika hela urumaya ministry of power and energy -lsb- http://www.champikaranawaka.net/ www.champikaranawaka.net -rsb- theravada buddhism ranil wickremesinghe champika ranawaka

champika ranawaka

ranawaka arachchige patali champika ranawaka -lrb- sinhala : ප ඨල චම ප ක රණවක ; born 4 august 1965 -rrb- is a mp in sri lanka , and an electrical engineer by profession .
champika held ministries of environment and natural resources , power and energy and technology , research and atomic energy in the government of mahinda rajapaksa .
champika ranawaka entered the university of moratuwa , to study engineering , in 1984 .
as a university student he was involved in political activities .
initially , he aligned with janatha vimukthi peramuna -lrb- jvp -rrb- , a revolutionary marxist party .
however , he ideologically shifted towards sinhala buddhist nationalism later on and aligned with jathika chinthana group .
due to his involvements with jvp , who had been engaged in an uprising against the united national party -lrb- unp -rrb- government then , champika ranawaka was arrested and detained .
after released , champika ranawaka formed `` janatha mithro '' -lrb- people 's friends -rrb- group , which is generally regarded as sri lanka 's first green party , and helped chandrika kumaratunga to power in 1994 .
then he joined sinhala nationalists thilak karunaratne and s.l. gunasekara to form sihala urumaya , a sinhala nationalist party .
sihala urumaya was later dissolved to found jathika hela urumaya -lrb- jhu -rrb- to facilitate buddhist monks entering the parliamentary in 2004 .
jhu supported mahinda rajapakse in 2005 presidential election .
champika ranawaka became a prominent figure in the presidential campaign .
he was appointed to the cabinet as the minister of environment and natural resources in 2007 .
in 2010 , he was given the post of minister of power and energy and finally the ministry of technology , research and atomic energy .
over the past two decades , champika ranawaka emerged as one of the prominent sinhala-buddhist nationalist leaders of sri lanka .
he is quite vocal against tamil separatism and islamic fundamentalism .
however in 2015 , athuraliye ratana thero , currently an mp representing jhu , revealed that their party had never spoken of a sinhala buddhist base .
