parliament occupation religion constituency_mp imagesize family nationality party parents birth_date term_start image article_title name otherparty alma_mater
sri lankan politics buddhist kandy district 300px navin -lrb- brother -rrb- varuni -lrb- sister -rrb- sri lanka sri lankan united national party gamini dissanayake srima dissanayake 11 january 1980 17 august 2015 mayantha yaswanth dissanayake.jpg mayantha dissanayake
 mayantha dissanayake united national front for good governance royal college , colombo
mayantha dissanayake

mayantha yaswanth dissanayake -lrb- known as `` mayantha dissanayake '' -rrb- -lrb- born 11 january 1980 -rrb- he is member of parliament from kandy district having been elected in 2015 with a vote of 111,190 .
he was a provincial councillor of the central provincial counci .
he unsuccessfully sought a seat in the parliament in the 2010 general election from the kandy district , missing out marginally from entering parliament .
a few years later he polled the second highest amount of preferential votes in the kandy district to be elected as a councillor of the central provincial council .
he is a son of gamini dissanayake , a presidential candidate and grandson of andrew dissanayake who served as an mp for the nuwara eliya electorate and a deputy minister in the s. w. r. d. bandaranaike 's government .
his brother , navin dissanayake is a mp for unp from nuwara eliya district .
he was educated at the royal college colombo .
dissanayake is currently serving as the chief organizer for the yatinuwara electorate for the united national party .
