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Colombo, 28 September (HS). Former Sri Lankan minister and former Kalutara MP Kumar Welagama passed away. He breathed his last at a private hospital in the capital Colombo at the age of 74.
According to the Daily Mirror newspaper, former minister Kumar Welgama was undergoing treatment in this hospital. Since 2020, he has been the leader of the New Lanka Freedom Party and contested elections with Samagi Jana Balawegaya. Welagama was the chief organizer of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in the Agalawatte constituency between 1984 and 2000. Welagama was the Minister of Industrial Development from 2007 to 2010 and the Minister of Transport from 2010 to early 2015 in the SLFP-led government.