O. C. Tillekeratne

Wickelia Oswald Christopher Dissanayaka Tillekeratne (???? – 13 April 1923) was a Ceylonese politician. He was elected member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon representing the Sinhalese in the 1917 legislative council election and was re-elected as the representative for the Southern Province in the 1921 legislative council election. He died on 13 April 1923 in a fatal train accident at the Wellawatte train station while in-office. He was succeeded by his kinsmen C. W. W. Kannangara in the by-election that followed for the vacant seat.^[1][2][3]

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1. D.R. rises to the occasion
2. Wijesinghe, Sam (25 December 2005). "People and State Power". Sunday Observer, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
3. Jayetilleke, Rohan. "How C W W Kannangara resisted the Bastions of Reaction". Daily News. Retrieved 2 April 2020.