Major General Sarath Munasinghe, RWP, RSP, USP was a senior Sri Lanka Army officer and politician.
[1] Munasinghe joined the Sri Lankan Army as a cadet officer on 5 February 1970 and following his basic officer training at the Army Training Centre, Diyatalawa in its 3rd intake, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 4th Artillery Regiment, Sri Lanka Artillery on 1 June 1971, soon after the 1971 JVP insurrection.
In January 1979 he was sent by Brigadier Cyril Ranatunga to Jaffna to set up an intelligence unit for the army with the increase in Tamil militant groups.
From February 1990 to November 1990, Munasinghe served as the commanding officer of the 6th Field Regiment, Sri Lanka Artillery.
Major General Munasinghe entered the Parliament of Sri Lanka in 2000 as a member of the Peoples Alliance, representing the Kurunegala District and was made Deputy speaker and chairman of committees of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, and in 2001 crossed over to the opposition and became a member of the United National Party (UNP).