Philip Gunawardena
(1901-1972)
Sri Lankan politician
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Don Philip Rupasinghe Gunawardena (11 January 1901 – 26 March 1972) was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and founder of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the first political party in Sri Lanka. He is known for having introduced Trotskyism to Sri Lanka, where he is a National Hero for his role in the Sri Lankan independence movement, and is known as 'the Father of Socialism' and as 'the Lion of Boralugoda'. He was a long-time member of parliament and had served as Minister of Industries and Fisheries in Dudley Senanayake National Government Cabinet of Ceylon, as well as Minister of Agriculture and food under S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike from 1956-1959.
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11 January 1901 Sri Lanka
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26 March 1972 (aged 71)
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