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Sunimal Fernando who functioned as Advisor to the Prime Minster has been appointed Advisor to President Mahinda Rajapakse. Earlier still he was Advisor to President Rajapakse when he was Leader of the Opposition and before that when he was Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development as well.

In 1970, he was selected by the Late Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike as her first Coordinating Secretary. As Presidential Advisor, Sunimal will focus on the field of Social Infrastructure.

Consistently nationalist and left of centre, Sunimal Fernando is a former Head of the Department of Sociology at the Peradeniya University where he spearheaded the teaching of Sociology in Sinhala and the crafting of a new generation of Sinhala speaking sociologists.

As a university don he was subject to political victimisation when, after the elections of 1977 he was transferred without cause to the University of Jaffna and abruptly replaced as Head of Department in Peradeniya.

A creative and sensitive analyst of economic, social, political and cultural dynamics of grassroots communities in Sri Lanka, Sunimal has travelled widely in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Southern Europe, studying the problems and realities of grassroots level aspirations and development.

Joining the SLFP as a toddling school boy, way back in 1953, he was at various times, in the 1960's and 1970's, President of the SLFP Central Organisation of the former Puttalam and Nikaweratiya electorates respectively, and a member of the Executive Committee of the party.

Sunimal Fernando will function from the Presidential Secretariat.

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