
President pays his last respects to the remains of the late Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra Posted on 09 October 2011. The President has paid his last respects to the remains of former Parliamentarian Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra. His funeral will be held on Wednesday. The President visited the late Parliamentarian's residence in Jawatta to pay his last respects when the remains were brought from Jayaratne florists this morning. He expressed his condolences to his wife, children and relatives. The remains were taken to his Kolonnawa residence from Jawatta this afternoon. Ministers and Parliamentarians are arriving at his residence in Kolonnawa to pay their last respects. He was 55 years when he was killed in a shooting incident that occurred in Mulleriyawa last evening. He was a powerful union activist. An old boy of Ananda College, Colombo, he joined active politics as the Kolonnawa organizer of the Sri Lanka Mahajana Party. He was elected to the Kolonnawa Pradeshiya Sabha in 1979 and was elected to the Western Provincial Council in 1988. When the Peoples Alliance Government came to power in 1994 he was elected to the Parliament from the Colombo District. He represented the Parliament on several occasions thereafter. Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra was the Director General of the Trade Union Unit of the Presidential Secretariat at the time of his demise.
President
Rajapakse
pays
his
last
respects
to
the
remains
of
late
Bharatha
Lakshman
Premachandra