Member of Parliament from 1977 to 1994 Deputy Mayor Colombo 1970-1971 Member Colombo Municipal Council 1962-1977 District Minister of Colombo 1978-1988 Minister of Petroleum Services 1988-1989 State Minister of Industries 1989-1990 Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi (died 24 October 1994) was the Cabinet Minister of Food / Co-operative and Janasaviya) of United National Party government from 1990-94. He was elected to parliament in 1977 & re-elected in 1989 and in 1994 from the Kolonnawa electorate in Colombo district in the Parliamentary election of 1994. But his political life was cut short when he was assassinated by a female suicide bomber of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) while attending an election rally in support of Gamini Dissanayake, for the Presidential election of 1994. See also List of political families in Sri Lanka References External links Colombo Young Poets' Association 1929 births 1994 deaths Assassinated Sri Lankan politicians District ministers of Sri Lanka Government ministers of Sri Lanka Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka Ministers of state of Sri Lanka People killed during the Sri Lankan Civil War Sinhalese politicians Sri Lankan Buddhists Suicide bombings in Sri Lanka Terrorist incidents in Sri Lanka in 1994 United National Party politicians Alumni of Dharmaraja College Alumni of Ananda College