{"id":105651,"date":"2020-08-19T16:39:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T23:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105651"},"modified":"2020-08-19T16:39:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T23:39:35","slug":"%ef%bb%bf81-first-time-mps-sit-in-parliament-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/19\/%ef%bb%bf81-first-time-mps-sit-in-parliament-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufeff81 first-time MPs sit in parliament tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

With the inaugural session of the ninth parliament due to take place tomorrow (20), the focus is on 81 first-time MPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sixty five of them got elected at the 2020 general election, while 16 come from the national list as named by their parties so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SLPP has 12 and the SJB, ITAK, AITC and the JJB has one appointed MP each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UNP and the Apey Janabala Party are yet to name their national list MPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first-time MPs \u2013 elected<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colombo district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Pradeep Undugoda (91,958)
Madhura Vithanage (70,205)
Premanath C. Dolawatte (69,055)
Jagath Kumara (47,693)
Kalutara district \u2013 SLPP
Sanjeewa Edirimanne (105,973)
Anupa Pasquel (97,777)
Lalith Ellawala (76,605)

Gampaha district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Nalaka Godahewa (325,479)
Sahan Pradeep Vithana (97,494)
Kokila Harshani Gunawardena (77,922)
Nalin Ruwanjeewa Fernando (69,800)
Milan Sanjeewa Jayatilake (68,449)
Upul Mahendra Rajapakse (67,756)

Kandy district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Wasantha Yapa Bandara (108,940)
Gunatilake Rajapakse (49,317)
Udaya Chaminda Kirindigoda (39,904)

Nuwara Eliya district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Jeevan Thondaman (109,155)
Marudapandi Rameswaran (57,167)
Nimal Piyatissa (51,225)
SJB<\/strong>
Myalvaganam Udayakumar (68,119)

Matale district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Nalaka Bandara Kottegoda (71,404)
Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon (67,776)

Galle district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Sampath Athukorale (128,331)
Isuru Dodangoda (71,266)
Shan Vijayalal de Silva (67,793)

Matara district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Nipuna R. Ranawaka (131,010)
Karunadasa Kodituwakku (114,319)
Weerasumana Weerasinghe (77,968)

Hambantota district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Dr. Upul Galappatti (63,369)
Ajith Rajapakse (47,375)

Anuradhapura district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Prof. Channa Jayasumana (133,980)
Uddika Premaratne (133,550)
H. Nandasena (53,618)
K.P.S. Kumarasiri (49,030)
SJB<\/strong>
Rohana Bandara Wijesundara (39,520)

Polonnaruwa district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Amarakirthi Atukorale (45,939)
SJB<\/strong>
Kins Nelson (22,393)

Trincomalee district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Kapila Atukorale (30,056)

Batticaloa district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan (54,198)
ITAK<\/strong>
Sanakya Rahul (33,332)
SLMC<\/strong>
Ahmed Nasir (17,599)

Digamadulla district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
D.C. Weerasinghe (56,006)
Thilak Rajapakse (54,203)
ACTC<\/strong>
Mohamed Musharaf (18,389)

Badulla district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Maj. Sudarshan Denipitiya (71,768)
Chamara Sampath Dassanayake (66,393)
Janaka Tissakuttiarachchi (50,151)

Moneragala district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Shasheendra Rajapaksa (104,729)
Kumarasiri Ratnayake (91,530)
Dr. Gayashan Nawananda (45,384)
SJB<\/strong>
Dharmasena Wijesinghe (20,662)

Ratnapura district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Gamini Waleboda (85,804)
Akila Ellawala (71,179)
Muditha Prashanthi de Soysa (65,923)

Kegalle district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Rajika Wickremasinghe (68,802)
L.M. Sudath Manjula (45,970)
Udayakantha Gunatilake (46,628)

Wanni district \u2013 EPDP<\/strong>
Kulasingham Dilipan (3,203)

Jaffna district \u2013 TNA<\/strong>
C.V. Vigneswaran (21,554)

Puttalam district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Chinthaka Amal Mayadunne (46,058)
MNA<\/strong>
Abdul Ali Sabri Mohamed (33,509)

Kurunegala district \u2013 SLPP<\/strong>
Dr. Gunapala Ratnasekara (141,991)
Asanka Nawaratne (82,779)
Samanpriya Herath (66,814)
U.K. Sumith Udukumbura (51,134)

National list MPs<\/strong>
SLPP<\/strong>
Sagara Kariyawasam (lawyer)
Ajith Nivard Cabraal (former Central Bank governor)<
Mohamed Ali Sabri (president\u2019s counsel)
Jayantha Weerasinghe (president\u2019s counsel)<
Manjula Dissanayake (widow of the late minister Salinda Dissanayake)
Senior Prof. Ranjith Bandara
Prof. Charitha Herath
Gevindu Kumaratunga (Yuthukama)
Yadamini Gunawardena (engineer)
Dr. Surendra Raghavan (former northern province governor)
Dr. Seetha Arambepola (former wesern province governor)
Mohamed Falil Marjan (entrepreneur)
SJB<\/strong>
Diana Gamage (lawyer)
ITAK<\/strong>
Thavaraja Kalai Arasan
AITC<\/strong>
Selvarasa Gajendiran
JJB<\/strong>
Dr. Harini Amarasuriya <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Hiru News With the inaugural session of the ninth parliament due to take place tomorrow (20), the focus is on 81 first-time MPs. Sixty five of them got elected at the 2020 general election, while 16 come from the national list as named by their parties so far. The SLPP has 12 and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}