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List Of United National Party MPs
This is a list of United National Party MPs. It includes all parliamentarians that were elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka representing the United National Party from 1946 to present day. The names in bold are the members of the party that became the President/Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. List of Parliamentarians A * Ossie Abeygunasekera * Ashoka Abeysinghe * Vajira Abeywardena * Keerthilatha Abeywickrama * Keerthi Abeywickrama * Sumanadasa Abeywickrama * A. R. A. M. Abubucker * M. L. Ahamed Fareeth * Lakshman Algama * Ranjith Aluwihare * Alick Aluwihare * Bernard Aluwihare * Wasantha Aluwihare * John Amaratunga * Sarath Amunugama (politician) * D. P. Atapattu * Lalith Athulathmudali * Tissa Attanayake * Gamini Atukorale * Thalatha Atukorale B * Bakeer Markar * M. D. Banda * R. M. Dharmadasa Banda * Nalin Bandara * Palitha Range Bandara * Ranjith Madduma Bandara * Indika Bandaranayake * Bandula Lal Bandarigoda * Harold Herath * Rohitha Bogollagama C * A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of Sri Lanka
The Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ''Shri Lanka Parlimenthuwa'', Tamil: இலங்கை நாடாளுமன்றம் ''Ilaṅkai nāṭāḷumaṉṟam'') is the supreme legislative body of Sri Lanka. It alone possesses legislative supremacy and thereby ultimate power over all other political bodies in the island. It is modeled after the British Parliament. It consists of 225 members known as Members of Parliament (MPs). Members are elected by proportional representation for five-year terms, with universal suffrage. The President of Sri Lanka has the power to summon, suspend, prorogue, or terminate a legislative session and to dissolve the Parliament. President can dissolve Parliament only after the lapse of years or if majority of Members of Parliament requests him. The actions of the president to either suspend or dissolve the Parliament is subject to leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarath Amunugama (politician)
Sarath Leelananda Bandara Amunugama ( Sinhala:සරත් ලීලානන්ද බණඩාර අමුනුගම), MP, SLAS (born July 10, 1939) is a Sri Lankan politician and civil servant. He was the Cabinet Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs and Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning until April 2010. He is a Member of Parliament from the Kandy District for the United People's Freedom Alliance in the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He studied at the Trinity College, Kandy and graduated from the University of Ceylon. He joined the Ceylon Civil Service (CCS) in its last intake of cadets in 1962. Following the disestablishment of the CCS he was transferred to its successor the Ceylon Administrative Service which was later renamed as the Sri Lanka Administrative Service (SLAS). During his career in the SLAS he served as Government Agent of the Kandy District, Director of Information, Permanent Secretary to Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and later C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padmalal De Alwis
Padmalal de Alwis is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Central Provincial Council. He is a member of the United National Party. He is known as 'Kalu Aliya'. He is the acting president in the Central Provincial Council as an opposition member. Early life De Alwis was born and raised in Kandy. His father was a businessman who owned mills island wide. Politics De Alwis was a member in the United National Party from 1977 to 1997. In 1997 he was elected to the Akurana Pradhesha Saba with the most votes of a Sinhala leader in Akurana Electorate. In 2003 he became Vice Chairman in Akurana pradesha saba as the 1st Sinhala leader to obtain more than 6000 votes in Akurana Electorate. In 2004 he was elected to the Central Provincial Council from Kandy District Kandy District ( si, මහනුවර දිස්ත්රික්කය, ta, கண்டி மாவட்டம்) is a district of the Central Province of Sri Lanka. Its area is 1906.3 km². Adm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anandatissa De Alwis
Maha Amarasinghege Anandatissa de Alwis (21 August 1919 – 22 August 1996) was a Sri Lankan journalist, marketer and politician. He was the Speaker of the National State Assembly, a Minister of State and the fourth Governor of the North Western Province of Sri Lanka. Early career De Alwis started his career as a journalist, serving as a war-time reporter. Later he served as private secretary to Sir John Kotelawala. He thereafter moved into advertising, working as a copy writer with Reggie Candappa at Grant McCann Erickson. He then left Grants to join J. Walter Thompson. He left J. Walter Thompson in 1965, to take up the post of Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of State, under J. R. Jayewardene who was the Minister of State. De Alwis was the first permanent secretary appointed from the private sector. In 1970, when the United National Party was defeated, De Alwis resigned as permanent secretary and established his own advertising company, ''De Alwis Advertising Company''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rohitha Bogollagama
Chandrasekera Rohitha Bandara Bogollagama (born 6 August 1954) (known as ''Rohitha Bogollagama'') (Sinhala language, Sinhala: රෝහිත බෝගොල්ලාගම, ta, ரோகித போகோல்லாகம) is a Sri Lankan politician and ex Governor of Eastern Province. He was the former Sri Lanka Freedom Party chief organiser for the Kotte Electorate. He had also served as the Cabinet Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 28 January 2007 until he was defeated in the 2010 Sri Lankan parliamentary election, General Elections held on 8 April 2010, losing his seat in parliament. He had a long career in law running from 1976 to 1999, before being elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan parliament in 2000 from the United National Party, and then crossed over to Sri Lanka Freedom Party Early life Born in Nikaweratiya, North Western Province, Sri Lanka, North Western Province, to Chandrasekera Malala Banda Bogollagama ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Herath
Deshabandu James Edward Herath Herald known as Harold Herath (10 March 1930 – 31 August 2007) was a senior Sri Lankan politician and Cabinet Minister. Herath was most notably Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Ranasinghe Premadasa from 1991 to 1993. He entered Parliament winning the Nattandiya electorate in the Puttalam Electoral District 1977, and held his seat until 2000 retiring not contesting the 2001 parliamentary election. He has also held the portfolios of Minister of Justice and Minister of Coconut Development. In 2005 Harold Herath was conferred the national honour and title Deshabandu by President Chandrika Kumaratunga. Harold Herath died on 31 August 2007 after a brief illness, he was 77. He was married to Gwen Herath, a former Provincial Council member and President of the Women's Cricket Association of Sri Lanka (WCASL), and was father to three children. See also * Minister of Foreign Affairs (Sri Lanka) The Minister of Foreign Affairs is an appointm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandula Lal Bandarigoda
Bandula Lal Bandarigoda is a Sri Lankan politician. He is a current member of the parliament of Sri Lanka for Galle District. Bandarigoda is member of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya and previously served as a member of the Southern Provincial Council The Southern Province ( si, දකුණු පළාත ''Dakuṇu Paḷāta'', ta, தென் மாகாணம் ''Theṉ Mākāṇam'') of Sri Lanka is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative division of t ..., before being electing to parliament. The Island He received his education at Nagoda Royal National College. References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indika Bandaranayake
Indika Bandaranayake (born September 7, 1972) is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka The Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ''Shri Lanka Parlimenthuwa'', Tamil: இலங்கை நாடாளுமன்றம் ''Ila ... and he is the former Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction. It is widely believe that Bandaranyake is to be a top level powerful Minister in Sri Lanka. References * 1972 births Living people Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka Government ministers of Sri Lanka United National Party politicians United People's Freedom Alliance politicians {{NorthWesternLK-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranjith Madduma Bandara
Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage Ranjith Madduma Bandara (born 25 August 1954) (known as ''Ranjith Madduma Bandara'') is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He was appointed as the cabinet Minister of Law and Order and Minister of Public Administration and Management by the President, Maithripala Sirisena on 8 March 2018. He has also acted as the Minister of Transport. His father R. M. Gunasekera, former member of the parliament for Bibile was assassinated when he was seven years old. His uncle was Dharmadasa Banda. He was educated at Ananda College and became a planter and a businessman. He is a long time member of Sri Lanka's main political party United National Party, and had held many positions in the party. On February 11, 2020 he was appointed as the General Secretary of Samagi Jana Balawegaya The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (, ta, ஐக்கிய மக்கள் சக்தி, "United People's Power") is a political alliance that is le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palitha Range Bandara
Palitha Range Bandara (born September 8, 1962) is a Sri Lankan politician. He was a State Minister of Irrigation and Water Resource Management and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka from Anamaduwa. Born Range Bandarage Palitha Range Bandara as the sixth child to a family of eleven children in the remote village of Karuwalagaswewa off Puttalam. He received his education at Ananda College Puttalam. He joined the Sri Lanka Police as a police constable in 1983 and served until he retired on August 24, 2000 in the grade of Sub-Inspector of Police. He claimed political victimization forcing his retirement and the National Police Commission recommended that he be promoted to the grade of Assistant Superintendent of Police from his retirement grade of Sub Inspector in December 2017. After leaving the police service, he contested the general election in 2000 and was elected to Parliament from Anamaduwa from the United National Party being the third on the preferential l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nalin Bandara
Nalin Nilantha Bandara Wijerathna Jayamaha Hitihamilage (born 5 June 1974) is a Sri Lankan politician and current member of parliament for Kurunegala District, he is also member of the United National Party The United National Party, often abbreviated as UNP ( si, එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය, translit=Eksath Jāthika Pakshaya, ta, ஐக்கிய தேசியக் கட்சி, translit=Aikkiya Tēciyak Kaṭci), .... References Samagi Jana Balawegaya politicians United National Party politicians 1974 births Living people Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka {{NorthWesternLK-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bakeer Markar
Deshamanya Marhoom Al Haj Mohammed Abdul Bakeer Markar (12 May 1917 – 10 September 1997) was a Sri Lankan politician and civil servant. He was the Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and Governor of the Southern Province. Personal life He was born on 12 May 1917 in Beruwala, Maradana, Sri Lanka. Bakeer Markar's ancestry is traced to Sheik Jamaluddeen-Al-Maghdoomi, an Arab settler who settled down in the sea board town of Beruwala. His father Hakeem Alia Marikkar Mohomed Marikkar belonged to a family of physicians, whose ancestors too were physicians. He started his education at Sri Lanka's first Muslim girls' school in Beruwala and entered St. Sebastian's College, Colombo at the age of 7 to complete his primary education. He completed his secondary education at Zahira College, Colombo and entered law college in 1939 as a law student and graduated in 1949. He was married to Sithy Kadija Muhammad Raffai, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Omer Lebbe Marikar Muhammed Raffai of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
