A. S. P Liyanage

Who is A. S. P Liyanage?

Panagoda Don Prince Solomon Anura Liyanage is the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Nigeria. He is also a Sri Lankan Businessman, the chairman and managing director of the ASP Group, a private real estate group established in 1989. He is standing in the Sri Lankan presidential election, 2010 for the Sri Lanka Labour Party.

Liyanage was a Millennium Development Ambassador to the People's Summit during the G8 in Hokkaido, Japan in 2008, and to the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva in 2007. He spent ₨1 million on full page advertisements in the Sri Lankan press to congratulate US President George W. Bush on his re-election in 2004, in advance of the result, which was reported internationally. He supported Obama in 2008. He produced the teleplay and film Suseema.

He received his education at Nalanda College Colombo. He has two daughters.

Sri Lanka Labour Party Presidential candidate A. S. P. Liyanage, he is also known to be a leading businessman in Sri Lanka. He took part in the Sri Lanka Presidential election in 2010 and became the third in Colombo.He also conducts the most popular Sri Lankan celebrity TV program known as " A.S.P Paduru Partiya" which telecasts in TNL on every Sunday at 9:35PM and the repeat is shown on Sunday at 2PM on TNL. He has the experience of conducting this program for 7 years. This program was awarded as the " BEST ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM" throughout the years 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.