{"id":145836,"date":"2024-11-16T15:48:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T22:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=145836"},"modified":"2024-11-16T15:48:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T22:48:40","slug":"twenty-one-women-elected-to-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/11\/16\/twenty-one-women-elected-to-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty one women elected to Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>Nineteen candidates from the National People&#8217;s Power (NPP<\/strong>) and two from the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) have been elected to Parliament this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The elected NPP Members of Parliament are:<br>\u2022 Muthumenike Rathwatte (Digamadulla)<br>\u2022 Ambiga Samuel (Badulla)<br>\u2022 Nilanti Kottahachchi (Kalutara)<br>\u2022 Oshani Umanga (Kalutara)<br>\u2022 Dr. Kaushalya Ariyarathne (Colombo)<br>\u2022 Samanmalee Gunasinghe (Colombo)<br>\u2022 Dr. Harini Amarasuriya (Colombo)<br>\u2022 Saroja Paulraj (Matara)<br>\u2022 Nilusha Gamage (Ratnapura)<br>\u2022 Sagarika Athawuda (Kegalle)<br>\u2022 Geetha Rathnakumari (Kurunegala)<br>\u2022 Hiruni Wijesinghe (Puttalam)<br>\u2022 Chathuri Gangani (Moneragala)<br>\u2022 Thushari Jayasinghe (Kandy)<br>\u2022 Hasara Premathilaka (Galle)<br>\u2022 Deepti Wasalage (Matale)<br>\u2022 Anushka Thilakarathna (Nuwara Eliya)<br>\u2022 Krishnan Kalaichelvi (Nuwara Eliya)<br>\u2022 Hemali Weerasekara (Gampaha)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Chaminthra Kiriella (Kandy)<br>\u2022 Rohini Kumari Wijerathna (Matale)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two SJB women MPs are Rohini Kaviratne from Matale and Chanindrani Kiriella and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number will increase if these parties nominate a few more women members on their National Lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Nineteen candidates from the National People&#8217;s Power (NPP) and two from the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) have been elected to Parliament this time. The elected NPP Members of Parliament are:\u2022 Muthumenike Rathwatte (Digamadulla)\u2022 Ambiga Samuel (Badulla)\u2022 Nilanti Kottahachchi (Kalutara)\u2022 Oshani Umanga (Kalutara)\u2022 Dr. Kaushalya Ariyarathne (Colombo)\u2022 Samanmalee Gunasinghe (Colombo)\u2022 Dr. Harini [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145836","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=145836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}