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Puwakdandawa Jinadasa Weerasinghe (8 June 1926 – 31 July 1987) was a Sri Lankan politician. He was the United National Party Member of Parliament for Tangalle from 1977 to 1987, when he was assassinated by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) during the second JVP insurrection.

Having been elected in the 1977 general election, he was shot dead on 31 July 1987 when his car was stop on the way to his home in Tangalle when he was returning from the signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord following which riots broke out and curfew was imposed island wide. His teenage son who was accompanying him was also shot and critically wounded, police blamed the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna for the assassination.

See also

• List of assassinations of the Second JVP Insurrection

References

1. "Hon. Weerasinghe, Puwakdandawa Jinadasa, M.P." parliament.lk. Parliament of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
2. "Lawmaker Slain After Signing of Sri Lanka Pact". LA Times. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
3. "Memories of a Horrific Day in Parliament". Ceylon Today. Retrieved 15 January 2024.

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North Western Province (19)	H. B. Abeyratne S. W. Alawatuwala Harindra Corea S. B. Herat Harold Herath J. A. D. S. R. Jayakody Lionel Jayatilleke H. M. A. Lokubanda M. H. M. Naina Marikar Festus Perera Gamini Jayawickrama Perera G. M. Premachandra Amarawathie Piyaseeli Ratnayake Kalubanda Ratnayake J. L. Sirisena Saddhatissa Wadigamangawa Asoka Wadigamangawa H. B. Wanninayake Dingiri Bandara Welagedara Ukkubanda Wijekoon
Sabaragamuwa Province (17)	M. L. M. Aboosally Gamini Atukorale C. R. Beligammana Chandrasekera Gankanda P. C. Imbulana Wimala Kannangara Asoka Karunaratne H. Kularatne Mervyn Kularatne Leonard Kiriella, Wimal Wickramasinghe Nanda Mathew K. Vincent Perera Abeyratne Pilapitiya Sarath Muttetuwegama G. V. Punchinilame N. A. Seneviratne Wasantha Udayaratne A. K. D. Wanigaratne Nissanka Wijeyeratne
Southern Province (21)	Keerthisena Abeywickrama Keerthilatha Abeywickrama Sumanadasa Abeywickrama Richard Pathirana Matarage Sirisena Amarasiri Ranjit Atapattu P. M. B. Cyril Ronnie de Mel P. S. Galappaththi Albert Silva Wijeyananda Dahanayake T. D. Fransisku K. Ananda Kularatne Montague Jayawickrama Rupasena Karunatilake Don Edwin Malawaraarachchi Albert Silva Chandrakumara Wijeya Gunawardena S. K. Piyadasa Bandulahewa Senadheera Daya Sepali Senadheera P. Sumathiratne G. V. S. de Silva Raitor Thilakasekara M. H. K. Jagathsena Edwin Tillekeratne Somaratne Asokaweera Norman Waidyaratna Harshanath Wanigasekera Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena Jinadasa Weerasinghe Dayananda Wickremasinghe E. D. Wickrematilaka Amarasiri Dodangoda
Uva Province (12)	R. M. Abeykoon R. M. Apphamy Dharmadasa Banda R. M. Punchi Bandara R. M. Karunaratne W. M. Karunaratne J. M. Kumaradasa W. J. M. Lokubandara D. Vincent Perera Percy Samaraweera C. P. J. Seneviratne Lakshman Senewiratne Samaraweera Weerawanni
Western Province (39)	Lalith Athulathmudali Dharmasena Attygalle Gamini Lokuge Sirimavo Bandaranaike S. D. Bandaranayake Jabir Cader Anandatissa de Alwis N. Denzil Fernando Neville Fernando Tyronne Fernando Bennet Gunasekera Premaratne Gunasekera Dinesh Gunawardena Tudor Gunasekara Jayakody Kamalawarana Indradasa Hettiarachchi M. Haleem Ishak D. Shelton Jayasinghe S. de Silva Jayasinghe Sunethra Ranasinghe Gamini Jayasuriya Ariyaratne Jayatillake M. D. H. Jayawardena J. R. Jayewardene Anura Bastian Merrill Kariyawasam Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi Abdul Bakeer Markar Cyril Mathew Wijayapala Mendis M. H. Mohamed Joseph Michael Perera Vincent Perera O. S. Perera Ranasinghe Premadasa M. D. Premaratne Sarathchandra Rajakaruna R. G. Samaranayake Senaraja Samaranayake Edmund Samarawickrema Ranil Wickremesinghe Reginald V. Wijegunaratne Anil Moonesinghe V. L. Wijemanne Mahendra Wijeratne

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