Dullas Alahapperuma

Dullas Daham Kumara Alahapperuma (born 14 May 1959) is a Sri Lankan politician and founder and current leader of the Freedom People's Congress.

[5] He was elected to Sri Lanka's 13th Parliament as a UPFA national list MP on 19 December 2005, winning by-polls on a seat that had fallen vacant following the assassination of then Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar.

He re-entered Parliament in 2010 as a national list MP representing UPFA following the 2010 General Election and was subsequently appointed Minister of Youth Affairs.

He voted in favour of the Eighteenth Amendment which gave the Executive President a wide range of powers including removing the term limit for re-election.

[9] He resigned from his cabinet portfolio in April 2022 as the 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis deepened amid civil protests.

On 31 August 2022, Dullas Alahapperuma and 13 others left the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna party and crossed over to the opposition as an independent MP.