Senator Valentine S. Jayawickrema was a Ceylonese politician.
He was the Minister of Justice in the cabinet of W. Dahanayake and a member of the Senate of Ceylon.
[1][2] He succeeded M. W. H. de Silva as Minister of Justice and to his seat in the Senate (appointed by the Governor General), following de Silva's resignation.
Soon he faced a motion of no confidence in Parliament which he survived and remained the only original Sri Lanka Freedom Party member to remain in the Dahanayake cabinet.
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