August 02, Colombo (LNW): MP Dhammika Perera is set to be nominated as the Presidential Candidate for the Ruling Party Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) ahead of the upcoming Presidential Polls, party internal sources confirmed.
Accordingly, the decision to appoint him as the Party candidate will be announced in ceremonial fashion on August 07, confirming LNW’s prediction made nine months ago,
LNW predicted Mr. Perera’s potential candidacy for the upcoming Polls on December 18, 2023.
Perera, whose reputation as an investor both local and overseas and an entrepreneur made him the number one business magnet in Sri Lanka, possesses knowledge and experience on business operation unparalleled to any other personnel of his capacity.
His expertise includes sectors such as the Banking and Finance Sector, Apparel Sector, Industrial Sector, Agricultural Sector ans Tourism, amongst other things.
His unparalleled contribution to education made his brand name more popular in Sri Lanka’s Educational Sector, in which he made the possibility of modernising children’s education into a reality, hence his online educational platform DP Education.
DP Education was appraised on an international level, where Perera’s commitment to DP Education school was recognised as the number one digital educational platform in Asia. DP Education paved the way for over 1.5 million Sri Lankan students to study courses, for free.
The DP Education IT Campus project initiated by Perera aiming the creation of one million jobs in the Information Technology field in Sri Lanka built 145 branches throughout the island, providing free online courses, especially targetting computer language-based modules, and making it possible for more than 135,000 students to study them.
The DP Education project, together with the DP Education IT Campus, paved the way for more than 250,000 children in Sri Lanka to study aiming career development, for free.
Perera remains the only candidate contesting the upcoming Presidential Election with a manifesto consisting of a formal and practical model for economic development in Sri Lanka and an action plan for nation-building.
