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Sagara Kariyawasam (SLPP)
General Secretary SLPP
Lawyer by profession
Mohamed Ali Sabry
Deputy President, Bar Association of Sri Lanka
Chief legal adviser to
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Chief legal adviser of the SLPP
Jayantha Weerasinghe (SLPP-National List (NL))
Legal advisor to
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa
Professor Ranjith Bandara (SLPP-NL)
Professor, Department of Economics,
University of Colombo
Economist by profession, he earned his PhD in Economics in 2003 from the University of Queensland, Australia
Member of Board of Directors of the National Livestock Development Board, Sri Lanka-Libya Agricultural and Livestock Development Company Ltd and Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka Limited.
Senior business consultant to a number of leading business organisations in Sri Lanka.
Gevindu Kumaratunga (SLPP- NL)
Son of Kumaratunga Munidasa.
Chairman Itukama organisation
Manjula Dissanayake (SLPP-NL)
Wife of late Salinda Dissanayake
Twice elected as Member of the North Western Provincial Council.
Prof. Charitha Herath (SLPP) (NL)
Professor of Philosophy, University of Peradeniya
Head / Department of Philosophy (2017-2018), University of Peradeniya
Former Secretary Ministry of
Mass Media & Information
Former Chairman of Central }
Environmental Authority
Member of Viyath Maga
Yadamini Gunawardena (SLPP-NL)
ICT professional, Yadamini Gunewardena
is the son of Dinesh Gunewardena
Dr. Surendra Raghavan (SLPP-NL)
Academic and former Northern Province Governor
Served as adviser to President Maithripala Sirisena and director of his Media Unit.
Former lecturer at the Colombo University, visiting professor at University of St Paul – Ottawa, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre
for Buddhist Studies – Wolfson College,
University of Oxford.
Dr. Seetha Arambepola (SLPP- NL)
ENT Consultant Surgeon and former Western Province Governor
Senior Registrar Colombo South Teaching
Hospital (2013)
Acting Consultant Otorhinolaryngologist National Hospital,Colombo (Sep 2014-Dec 2015)
Senior Lecturer, South Asian Institute of Technology and Management (Jan 2015 – 2017)
Member of Viyath Maga and Eliya
Mohammed Faleel Marjan (SLPP- NL)
Son of late Marjan Faleel Hadjiar, former Chairman of the Beruwala Urban Council.
Former chairman of the Beruwala Urban Council
Thavaraja Kalai Arasan (ITAK)
Member of Eastern Provincial Council
Former Chairman of Navithanveli Pradeshiya Sabha
Gunathilaka Rajapaksha (SLPP)
1991-Member Poojapitiya Pradeshiya Sabha.
2002- Opposition leader Poojapitiya
Pradeshiya Sabha
2006- Chairman Poojapitiya Pradeshiya Sabha.
2009-Member Central Provincial Council
2013-Member Central Provincial Council
Prof.Channa Jayasumana (SLPP)
Professor, Faculty of Medicine,
Rajarata University
Secretary University Lecturers’ Association Member of Viyathmaga
Kings Nelson (SJB)
Former Opposition Leader/ Provincial Councillor of North Central Provincial Council
Son of Late Deputy Minister H.J.P.Nelson
Thilak Rajapaksha (SLPP)
Attached to The Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps
Head of the Ambagahawella Regional Hospital and the Ampara Health Officer’s Office.
Director of Ampara Regional Health Services Office
Chamara Sampath (SLPP)
Chief Minister of the Uva Provincial Council
C. V. Wigneswaran (Thamizh Makkal Tesiya Kootani)
Former Supreme Court Judge
Chief Minister, Northern Province from October 2013 to October 2018.
Leader of the Tamil People’s Council and Tamil National Alliance.
Gamini Waleboda (SLPP)
Holds a Bachelor and Postgraduate Degree from the University of Colombo
After serving in the Board of Investment he joined the Inland Revenue Service and was promoted as Deputy Commissioner of Inland Revenue Department
External Lecturer at several State Universities
Ajith Nivard Cabraal (SLPP – NL)
Twelfth Governor of the Central Bank
(2006-2015)
Advisor to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on economic affairs
Served as Secretary to the
Ministry of Plan Implementation