Nimal Siripala de Silva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nimal Siripala de Silva

Sri Lankan politician

Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1944

Place of Birth: Badulla, Uva Province, Sri Lanka

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: Sri Lanka

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Nilenthi Nimal Siripala de Silva MP (born 6 September 1944) is Sri Lanka's Cabinet Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation in 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka.
He is a member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and a Member of Parliament representing the Badulla District.
He was also the former Leader of the Opposition, former Cabinet Minister (Irrigation and Water Resources Management), former Leader of the House.De Silva is a lawyer by profession and received his secondary education at Nalanda College, Colombo.He is the Assembly President of the World Health Organization. On 4 July 1996 De Silva escaped with injuries in an attempted assassination by a LTTE female suicide bomber at the Stanley Road in Jaffna.
This incident took place minutes after the Minister declared open a branch of Building Materials Corporation (BMC) in Jaffna.
Brigadier Ananda Hamangoda (Jaffna Sector Commander), Ranjith Godamuna (Chairman, Lanka Cement) and 21 others were killed with more than 50 injured in the explosion.