P. B. Bulankulame
Sooriyakumara Wannisinghe Punchi Banda Bulankulame, OBE, JP was a Ceylonese politician, who was the former Cabinet Minister of Lands and Land Development in Dudley Senanayake's and John Kotelawala's government.
Educated at the Royal College Colombo and the Ceylon Law College becoming a Proctor and was appointed a Justice of Peace. He was elected to the 2nd State Council of Ceylon on 21 April 1944, following the death of the sitting member, H. R. Freeman. In 1947 he was elected to first Parliament of Ceylon. In the first government since independence, he was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Lands. He was awarded the title of Dissawa by the British Governor of Ceylon. He was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 1949 New Year Honours and later made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 1951 Birthday Honours.
