About

Dilan Perera was born in the year of 1962 to Marshall Perera, a lawyer and Daya Perera, an English teacher who served in government schools. The politics of the father who was a member of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and a mother who was an energetic trade union activist and a social worker, shaped Dilan’s and his only sibling Kisholi’s minds at a very young age on social justice and equality.

The Journey in Politics

Dilan was exposed to politics from his father was having regular interactions with the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) members, plantation workers and lawyers in the area. As a young child and at a later stage as a university student Dilan got interested in various groups that were involved in leftist politics in Sri Lanka. By the age of 26 years, this aspiring young man was invited to contest the Uva Provincial Council elections in 1988 and went on to win the post of the yougest elected. and got elected.

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