The wealthy Dissanayake family resided in both Kandy as well as Nuwara Eliya.
His mother was Welegedara Samaratunga Kumarihamy from Kotmale. He was born in Kandy as the second son of a family of seven children, his father was Andrew Dissanayake who served as an Member of Parliament and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Nationalised Services and Shipping in the Sri Lanka Freedom Party government of S.W.R.D.
He was designated as the UNP candidate in the 1994 presidential election, but was then assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Ranasinghe Premadasa Dingiri Banda Wijetungaĭissanayake Mudiyanse Ralahamilage Lionel Gamini Dissanayake, PC (known as Gamini Dissanayake Sinhala: ලයනල් ගාමිණි දිසානායක, Tamil: காமினி திஸாநாயக்க 20 March 1942 – 24 October 1994) was a prominent Sri Lankan politician, a powerful minister of the United National Party, and Leader of the Opposition.
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