Prasanna Ranatunga

Hon. Prasanna Ranatunga
ප්‍රසන්න රණතුංග பிரசன்ன ரணதுங்கா
Minister of Urban Development and Housing
In office 14 May 2022 – 23 September 2024
President	Gotabaya Rajapaksa Ranil Wickramasinghe
Prime Minister	Ranil Wickramasinghe Dinesh Gunawardena
Preceded by	Mahinda Rajapaksa
Chief Government Whip
In office 18 April 2022 – 24 September 2024
President	Gotabaya Rajapaksa Ranil Wickramasinghe
Preceded by	Johnston Fernando
Succeeded by	Nalinda Jayatissa
Minister of Public Security
In office 18 April 2022 – 9 May 2022
President	Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Prime Minister	Mahinda Rajapaksa
Preceded by	Sarath Weerasekara
Succeeded by	Tiran Alles
Minister of Tourism
In office 12 August 2020 – 9 May 2022
President	Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Prime Minister	Mahinda Rajapaksa
Preceded by	John Amaratunga
Succeeded by	Harin Fernando
7th Chief Minister of Western Province
In office 4 May 2009 – 1 September 2015
Preceded by	Reginald Cooray
Succeeded by	Isura Devapriya
Member of Parliament for Gampaha District
In office 1 September 2015 – 24 September 2024
Personal details
Born	(1967-01-01) 1 January 1967 (age 57) Sri Lanka
Political party	Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
Spouse	Maureen
Relations	Reggie (father) Arjuna (brother) Nishantha (brother) Dammika (brother) Sanjeeva (brother) Ruwan (brother)
Children	Archana, Pavithra, Udara
Alma mater	Asoka College/ Ananda College

Prasanna Ranatunga (born 1 January 1967) is a Sri Lankan politician, former member of parliament, a former Minister of Urban Development and Housing. He was also appointed as the Chief Government Whip on 18 April 2022.^[1][2] He was the 7th Chief Minister of Western Province, Sri Lanka.

He belongs to the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and is part of the Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance.^[3] He is the brother of former Sri Lanka cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga.^[4][5][6][7] Ranatunga entered parliament in 2015 from Gampaha District as an opposition member. Ranatunga received a vote count of 384,448 in the 2015 parliamentary elections.

On 6 June 2022, he was sentenced to two years of rigorous imprisonment suspended for five years, after he was found guilty of threatening a businessman from whom he solicited a bribe of Rs. 64 million to evict unauthorised occupants of a parcel of land.^[8]

See also

• List of political families in Sri Lanka

References

1. "Prasanna Ranatunga assumes duties as Chief Government Whip". Colombo Gazette. 19 April 2022. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
2. "Minister Ranatunga new Chief Government Whip". The Island. 19 April 2022. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
3. Western Province Chief Ministers
4. Prasanna - New Chief Minister of WP
5. "Western Province council". Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
6. "UPFA confident of victory at LG Polls - Prasanna Ranatunga". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
7. Western Province Prasaana Ranatunga Archived 17 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
8. "Prasanna Ranatunga sentenced to 2-year RI, suspended for five years". Sri Lanka News - Newsfirst. 6 June 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.