Mallika Ratwatte
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Mallika Ellawala Ratwatte | |
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| Member of Parliament for Balangoda electorate | |
| In office 1966–1977 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 April 1932 |
| Died | 18 May 2017 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Political party | Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
| Spouse | Clifford Ratwatte |
| Occupation | Politics |
Mallika Eslin Ratwatte (née Ellawala) (13 April 1932 – 18 May 2017) was a Ceylonese politician. She was a Member of Parliament from the Balangoda electorate.
Early life and family
[edit]Born Mallika Eslin Ellawala, to the Radala Ellawala family in Ratnapura. She married Clifford Ratwatte, a planter who was the son of Barnes Ratwatte Dissawa, a member of the State Council of Ceylon and sister of Sirimavo Bandaranaike who would become Prime Minister of Ceylon.
Political career
[edit]Clifford Ratwatte entered politics in 1954 as member of Sri Lanka Freedom Party which was formed by his brother-in-law S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike; he was elected to parliament from the Balangoda electorate in March 1960 and was re-elected in July 1960 and 1965, but was unseated in 1966 in an election petition.[1]
Mallika Ratwatte, then contested in her husband's seat of Balangoda in the by-election in 1966 from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and won, entering parliament. She again contested in the Balangoda electorate and won in the 1970 parliamentary elections, defeating a distant cousin Seetha Seneviratne, 18,808 votes to 11,616 votes.[2] She was defeated in the 1977 parliamentary elections by the United National Party candidate M.L.M. Aboosally by 19,502 votes to 15,829 votes.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Time for political googlies". Sunday Times. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1970" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ^ "Parliamentary Election - 1977" (PDF). elections.gov.lk. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
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