Colombo (News 1st): Srima Dissanayake, the wife of the late Gamini Dissanayake, passed away at the age of 76 at a private hospital a short while ago.

She is the mother of Minister Naveen Dissanayake and parliamentarian Mayantha Dissanayake. She contested for the 1994 presidential election as the candidate of the United National Party.

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