Ranil Wickremesinghe is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the ninth president of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024. Previously,he served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1993–1994,2001–2004,2015–2018,2018-2019 and in 2022. He held several ministerial roles,including Minister of Finance,Minister of Defence,Minister of Technology and Minister of Women,Child Affairs and Social Empowerment. Wickremesinghe has led the United National Party (UNP) since 1994 and has been Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on six occasions.
The United National Party is a centre-right political party in Sri Lanka. The UNP has served as the country's ruling party,or as part of its governing coalition,for 38 of the country's 74 years of independence,including the periods 1947–1956,1965–1970,1977–1994,2001–2004 and 2015–2019. The party also controlled the executive presidency from its formation in 1978 until 1994 and again from 2022 to 2024.
Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana is a Sri Lankan politician,former diplomat and local government activist. He is most known for the pivotal and important role he played in bringing about an end to the Sri Lankan Civil War.
Nilenthi Nimal Siripala de Silva MP is a Sri Lankan politician currently serving as the Minister of Ports,Shipping and Aviation and one of the two acting chairmen of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party alongside Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe. He served as the Leader of the Opposition for a few months in 2015,and has served in several other ministerial posts:he is the former Cabinet Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation in 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka,former Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Management and former Leader of the House.
Sajith Premadasa is a Sri Lankan politician. He is the current Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka and a Member of Parliament for the Colombo District. He is the current leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya.
Boddhiya Baduge Dilan Priyanjan Anslam Perera,MP is a Sri Lankan politician. Current Member of Parliament for Badulla District,he was the former State Minister of Highways,State Minister of Housing and Samurdhi,Non-Cabinet Minister of Port Development,and Deputy Minister of Justice.
Lakshman Pinto Jayatilaka Senewiratne is a Sri Lankan politician,former State Minister of Science,Technology and Research and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka representing the Badulla District. and former Cabinet Minister of Sugar Industries,His father C. P. J. Senewiratne was an MP for Mahiyangana electorate and former Cabinet Minister of Labour in the government of J.R. Jayewardene.
Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 8 and 20 April 2010,to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 14th Parliament. 14,088,500 Sri Lankans were eligible to vote in the election at 11,102 polling stations. It was the first general election to be held in Sri Lanka following the conclusion of the civil war which lasted 26 years.
Badulla 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 Badulla in the Uva province. The district currently elects 8 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 574,814 registered electors in 2010. The district is Sri Lanka's Electorate Number 19.
Tiran Alles,MP is a Sri Lankan businessman and politician. He is a current member of Parliament of Sri Lanka and the Minister of Public Security. Alles had entered politics as an ally of former General Sarath Fonseka and a member of parliament for Fonseka's Democratic National Alliance in 2010. Leaving parliament in 2015,he returned as a member of Mahinda Rajapaksa's Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and the leader of the United People's Party in 2020 and became a minister in 2022.
Harin Fernando,MP is a Sri Lankan politician,Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament. He is the former Minister of Tourism and Lands as well as the former Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs. He previously served as the Minister of Sports before,as well as the Telecommunication,Digital Infrastructure Facilities,Foreign Employment,and Tourism ministers in previous Sri Lankan governments. He was the 7th Chief Minister of Uva Province.
Karuppaiah Velayudam was a Sri Lankan trade unionist,politician and state minister.
Mahamood Lebbe Alim Mohamed Hizbullah is a Sri Lankan politician and state minister. He was a minor presidential candidate in the 2019 presidential elections.
Naseer Ahamed is a Sri Lankan politician serving as the Governor of the North Western Province,Sri Lanka. Naseer Ahamed has been active in Sri Lanka's political scene since 1994,having held various positions such as Cabinet Minister of Environment,Member of Parliament from the Batticaloa district,Chief Minister of the Eastern Province and more.
Arunchalam Aravind Kumar is a Sri Lankan trade unionist,politician and Member of Parliament.
Chamara Sampath Dasanayaka is a Sri Lankan politician and the former Chief Minister of Uva Province in Sri Lanka.
The Uma Oya Hydropower Complex (also internally called Uma Oya Multipurpose Development Project or UOMDP) is an irrigation and hydroelectric complex in the Badulla District of Sri Lanka. Early assessments of the project date back to 1989,when the first studies was conducted by the country's Central Engineering and Consultancy Bureau. The complex involves building a dam across Dalgolla Oya,and channelling water over a 3,975 m (13,041 ft) tunnel to Mathatilla Oya,both of which are tributaries of the Uma Oya. At Mathatilla Oya,another dam is constructed to channel 145,000,000 m3 (5.1×109 cu ft) of water per annum,via a 15,290 m (50,160 ft) headrace tunnel to the Uma Oya Power Station,where water then discharged to the Alikota Aru via a 3,335 m (10,942 ft) tailrace tunnel.
Edley Winston Mathew,MBE was a Ceylonese lawyer and politician.
Malwattege Simon Andrew Peeris,OBE was a Ceylonese businessmen and politician.
