Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
M. P. de Zoysa | |
Constituency Mp: | Ambalangoda-Balapitiya |
Parliament: | Ceylon |
Term Start1: | 1956 |
Term End1: | 1960 |
Predecessor1: | Ian de Zoysa/P. H. de Silva |
Successor1: | Constituency Abolished |
Constituency Mp2: | Rathgama |
Term Start2: | 1960 |
Term End2: | 1965 |
Predecessor2: | Constituency Established |
Successor2: | Edwin Tillekeratne |
Birth Name: | Manameldura Piyadasa de Zoysa |
Birth Date: | 1910 |
Nationality: | Sri Lankan |
Party: | Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
Occupation: | Politics |
Children: | Suneththa, Sriya, Susil, Upul, Gowri, Sujeema |
Alma Mater: | Ananda College, Colombo |
Manameldura Piyadasa de Zoysa (born 1910) was a Ceylonese politician.[1]
De Zoysa was involved in Sri Lankan politics before the country's independence and was associated with the State Council of Ceylon established under the Donoughmore Constitution.[2]
In 1956 he was elected to Parliament in the seat of Ambalangoda-Balapitiya, representing the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna.[3] In 1959 he was appointed the Minister of Labour in the cabinet of W. Dahanayake.[4] [5]
At the Parliamentary elections in March 1960 he was elected in the seat of Rathgama,[6] retaining the seat in the subsequent elections in July that year.[7] De Zoysa subsequently resigned from the seat in late 1960 following his implication in the Thalagodapitiya Bribery Commission. He later accepted a position in the Senate of Ceylon, replacing G. P. Wickramarachchi.[8] [9]