[1] Liyanage received his education at Nalanda College Colombo[2] and began teaching, publishing a number of textbooks.
[3] In 1989, he established the ASP Group, a private real estate company, and served as its chairman and managing director.
[7][8][9] Liyanage ran advertisements congratulating US President Barack Obama before his victory in the 2008 United States presidential election.
[10] Liyanage conducted[clarification needed] the popular Sri Lankan celebrity TV program A.S.P Paduru Partiya for 7 years.
[12][13] In the 2010 election, he achieved a distant third place in preferential voting in the commercial capital of Colombo.