D. M. Jayaratne
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The Honourable D. M. Jayaratne MP |
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| Prime Minister of Sri Lanka | |
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In office 21 April 2010 – 9 January 2015 |
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| President | Mahinda Rajapaksa |
| Preceded by | Ratnasiri Wickremanayake |
| Succeeded by | Ranil Wickremesinghe |
| Minister of Buddhasasana & Religious Affairs | |
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In office 2010–2015 |
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| President | Mahinda Rajapaksa |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Minister of Plantations | |
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In office 2007–2010 |
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| President | Mahinda Rajapaksa |
| Prime Minister | Ratnasiri Wickremanayake |
| Minister of Posts, Telecommunications & Upcountry Development | |
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In office 2004–2007 |
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| President | Mahinda Rajapaksa Chandrika Kumaratunga |
| Prime Minister | Ratnasiri Wickremanayake Mahinda Rajapaksa |
| Minister of Agriculture | |
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In office 2000–2001 |
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| President | Chandrika Kumaratunga |
| Prime Minister | Ranil Wickremesinghe |
| Member of the Sri Lanka Parliament for Kandy District |
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In office 2004–2010 |
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In office 1989–2001 |
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| Member of the Sri Lanka Parliament for National List |
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In office 2010–2015 |
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In office 2001–2004 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 June 1931 |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Political party | Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
| Other political affiliations |
United People's Freedom Alliance |
| Children | Anuradha Jayaratne |
| Residence | Doluwa, Gampola, Sri Lanka. |
| Religion | Theravada Buddhism |
Disanayaka Mudiyanselage Jayaratne (Sinhalese: දිසානායක මුදියන්සේලාගේ ජයරත්න,Tamil: திசாநாயக்க முதியன்சேலாகே ஜயரத்ன; born 4 June 1931 ) known as D. M. "Di Mu" Jayaratne is a veteran Sri Lankan politician who was Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2010 to 2015. A founding member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, Jayaratne was first elected to parliament in 1970. He was sworn in as Prime Minister on 21 April 2010.
D. M. Jayaratne was born on 4 June 1931. He was educated at Doluwa Maha Vidyalaya in Gampola, a town just outside Kandy. Following the founding of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in Kandy in 1951 by S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Jayaratne worked as a teacher at Doluwa Maha Vidyalaya. He later worked as Postmaster at Doluwa from 1960 to 1962.
Jayaratne first entered parliament following the 1970 general election, obtaining 14,463 votes as the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) candidate in the Gampola electorate, and defeating W.P.B. Dissanayake of the United National Party (UNP). He was subsequently defeated by Dissanayake in the 1977 election in which just 8 members of the SLFP were returned to parliament. He was again re-elected to parliament in 1989 from the Kandy District under the new preferential voting system. He obtained 54,290 preferential votes, topping the SLFP list in the Kandy District.
Re-elected to parliament under the People's Alliance in 1994, Jayaratne was appointed Minister of Land, Agriculture and Forestry by President Chandrika Kumaratunga, entering the cabinet for the first time.
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