Dissanayake Mudiyanse Ralahamilage Lionel Gamini Dissanayake,PC was a prominent Sri Lankan politician,a powerful minister of the United National Party,and Leader of the Opposition. He was designated as the UNP candidate in the 1994 presidential election,but was then assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
Savumiamoorthy Arumugam Ramanathan Thondaman was a Sri Lankan politician who served as a Cabinet Minister. He was the grandson of prominent unionist Saumyamoorthi Thondaman. He was the leader of the Ceylon Workers' Congress,a Member of Parliament representing the Nuwara Eliya District and was an advocate for the Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka. His career as a politician spanned over 20 years,holding several ministerial portfolios in different governments. He was regarded as one of the prominent politicians from Nuwara Eliya.
Mohottalage Dingiri Banda was a former Divisional Revenue Officer (DRO) and subsequently a Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament in Ceylon.
Periyasamy Chandrasekaran was a Sri Lankan trade unionist,politician and government minister.
Dunuthilaka Mudiyanselage Renuka Menike Herath,commonly known as Renuka Herath,was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. She was the Health Minister under President Ranasinghe Premadasa. Renuka Herath was the opposition leader of the Central Provincial Council when she died.
Nuwara Eliya electoral district is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district is conterminous with the administrative district of Nuwara Eliya in the Central province. The district currently elects 7 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 457,137 registered electors in 2010.
Mayantha Yaswanth Dissanayake is a Member of Parliament from Kandy District. He was a Provincial Councillor of the Central Provincial Council. He was SLFP organizer to Ampara District under former president Mahinda Rajapaksa. 2010 he supported General Sarath Fonseka in 2010 presidential election and crossover from SLFP to UNP. He appointed as chief organizer to Ududumbara electorate,Nawalapitiya electorate and at last Yatinuwara electorate. A few years later he polled the second highest number of preferential votes in the Kandy district to be elected as a Councillor of the Central Provincial Council. He is a son of Gamini Dissanayake,a Presidential candidate and a powerful minister of the United National Party from 1977 to 1994. A grandson of Andrew Dissanayake who served as an MP for the Nuwara Eliya electorate and a deputy minister in the S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike's government. His brother,Navin Dissanayake is an MP for UNP from Nuwara Eliya District. He was educated at the Royal College Colombo.
Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Sumanaweera Banda Dissanayake,MP is a Sri Lankan politician. He is the former Cabinet Minister of Higher Education in President Mahinda Rajapakse's Government. He was the former general secretary of Sri Lanka Freedom Party and former national organiser of the United National Party. Dissanayake lost his cabinet position after Rajapaksha was defeated at the 2015 presidential election in Sri Lanka.
Sri Ranga Jeyaratnam,also known J. Sri Ranga,is a Sri Lankan Tamil broadcaster,politician and former Member of Parliament.
Sundaram Perumal Rajadurai is a Sri Lankan attorney-at-law,politician and former Member of Parliament.
Akandhan Velusami Radhakrishnan is a Sri Lankan politician and state minister. He is the leader of the Up-Country People's Front (UCPF),a member of the Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) and United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG).
S. Udeiappan Palani Alagan Digambaran is a Sri Lankan politician and government minister. He is the leader of the National Union of Workers (NUW),a member of the Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) and United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG).
H Cannappen Velusingham Velupillai was a Ceylonese trade unionist,politician and poet.
Piyadigamage Premachandra Sumanatilake (?–1967) was a Ceylonese politician.
Mudiyanselage Andrew Dissanayake was a Ceylonese businessman,landholder and politician.
Donald Jasen Ranaweera,MBE,JP was a Sri Lankan plantation owner,press baron and politician. He was the Chairmen of the Times of Ceylon and served as the member of parliament from Maskeliya (1960) and Nuwara Eliya (1965-1970).
Jeevan Thondaman is a Sri Lankan politician,Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister.
Marudapandy Rameshwaran is a Sri Lankan politician,former provincial minister and Member of Parliament.
Opanayake Nimal Piyatissa is a Sri Lankan politician,former provincial minister and Member of Parliament.
