Edmund Wijesuriya


Henry Edmund Wijesuriya was a Sri Lankan politician. He was a member of parliament from Maskeliya and President of the All Ceylon Co-operative Federation.
He was elected from the Maskeliya electorate from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in the 1960 July general election defeating the incumbent Donald J. Ranaweera from the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna. He was one of thirteen SLFP parliamentarians who crossed over to the opposition with C. P. de Silva on 3 December 1964 resulting in the defeat of the SLFP government under Sirima Bandaranaike. He contested the 1965 general election from the United National Party and won, but lost his seat in the 1970 general election.