Dr N.M. Perera became its president and Anil Moonesinghe became its general secretary.
At the 1970 general election, the UCMU also sponsored the candidature of the chairman of its Vidyodaya University branch, Mahinda Rajapaksa who was later to become Prime Minister and then President of Sri Lanka.
In 1970, when Anil Moonesinghe went to the Ceylon Transport Board as chairman,[1] he was succeeded as general secretary by Percy Wickremasekera.
After the death of Dr N.M. Perera in 1979, Anil Moonesinghe became president.
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