Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena

Honourable Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena MP

State Minister of Finance
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 September 2015
President	Maithripala Sirisena
Prime Minister	Ranil Wickremesinghe
Member of the Sri Lanka Parliament for National List
Incumbent
Assumed office 2015
Member of the Sri Lanka Parliament for Matara
In office 1994 – 26 June 2015
Personal details
Born	(1955-06-07) June 7, 1955
Nationality	Sri Lankan
Political party	Sri Lanka Freedom Party
Other political affiliations	United People's Freedom Alliance
Residence	Lakmini Sanda, Beragama, Makandura, Matara, Sri Lanka.
Alma mater	Mahinda College, Galle
Religion	Buddhist
Website	http://www.lakshmanyapa.com/

Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena (born June 7, 1955) is a Sri Lankan politician. He is the State Minister of finance in the government of President Maithripala Sirisena.^[1] A representative of Matara District for the United People's Freedom Alliance in the Parliament of Sri Lanka, he formerly served as the cabinet minister of parliamentary affairs, Minister of Media, Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Minister of Foreign Employment Welfare, deputy minister of civil avaiation and as the cabinet minister of Investment Promotion. He has been in parliament since 1994 and 2015 is the 21st year in the parliament.

Abeywardana was born in 1955 to a prominent political family in Matara District, in Southern Province, where his father held local and provincial leadership positions. He was educated at Mahinda College, Galle.^[2]

Abeywardana has been a proponent of various micro-level development programs to enable the people to improve their quality of life. He is the Chairman of the Lakshman Yapa Abeywardana Foundation. Abeywardana resides in Colombo. He is married and has three sons. His son Pasanda Yapa Abeywardana is a member of the Southern Provincial council.^[3]

References

External links

"LAKSHMAN YAPA ABEYWARDENA". Directory of Members. Parliament of Sri Lanka.

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Prime Minister: Mahinda Rajapaksa/Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
Leader of the Opposition: Ranil Wickremasinghe

Central Province (24)

Kandy	Dimuthu Bandara Abayakoon A. R. M. Abdul Cader Mahindananda Aluthgamage Sarath Amunugama Tissa Attanayake Y. M. Nawaratna Banda M. H. A. Haleem D. M. Jayaratne Lakshman Kiriella Faiszer Musthapha Udawatte Nanda Thero Keheliya Rambukwella

Matale	Sujatha Alahakoon Alick Aluwihare Nandimithra Ekanayake Ranjith Aluwihare Rohana Dissanayake Janaka Bandara Tennakoon

Nuwara Eliya	P. Chandrasekaran Santhanam Arulsamy S. B. Dissanayake Renuka Herath N. D. N. P. Jayasinghe S. Jegadhiswaran C. B. Rathnayake Muthu Sivalingam Arumugam Thondaman

North Central Province (13)

Anuradhapura	S. M. Chandrasena Duminda Dissanayake W. B. Ekanayake P. Harrison Chandrani Bandara Jayasinghe Tissa Karalliyadde K. D. Lalkantha R. P. A. Ranaweera Pathirana

Polonnaruwa	Siripala Gamalath Earl Gunasekara Maithripala Sirisena S. K. Subasinghe C. A. Suriyaarachchi

North Eastern Province (31)

Ampara	Ferial Ashraff A. L. M. Athaullah P. Dayaratna Cassim Faizal Rauff Hakeem A. M. M. Naushad K. Pathmanathan Thomas Thangathurai William L. G. Wasantha Piyatissa

Batticaloa	Ali Ameer S. Jeyanandamoorthy Thanmanpillai Kanagasabai Thangeswary Kathiraman Kingsley Rasanayagam P. Ariyanethiran

Jaffna	Douglas Devananda S. Kajendran Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam Suresh Premachandran Nadarajah Raviraj N. Srikantha Mavai Senathirajah M. K. Shivajilingam Pathmini Sithamparanathan K. Sivanesan Solomon Cyril

Trincomalee	M. N. Abdul Majeed R. Sampanthan K. Thurairetnasingam Jayantha Wijesekara

Vanni	Selvam Adaikalanathan Sivasakthy Ananthan Risad Badhiutheen S. Kanagaratnam S. Kishore Vino Noharathalingam

North Western Province (24)

Kurunegala	Indika Bandaranayake Bandula Basnayake Rohitha Bogollagama Anura Kumara Dissanayaka Salinda Dissanayake T. B. Ekanayake Johnston Fernando Jayarathna Herath Dayasiri Jayasekara Akila Viraj Kariyawasam M. D. Namal Karunaratne S. B. Nawinne Gamini Jayawickrama Perera Bimal Rathnayaka Amara Piyaseeli Ratnayake Anura Priyadharshana Yapa

Puttalam	Palitha Range Bandara D. M. Dassanayake Piyankara Jayaratne Weerakumara Dissanayake Milroy Fernando Samansiri Herath Larine Perera Neomal Perera Dayasritha Thissera

Sabaragamuwa Province (19)

Kegalle	Kabir Hashim Maheepala Herath H. R. Mithrapala Anuruddha Polgampala Lalith Dissanayake Champika Premadasa R. M. Gamini Rathnayake Rukman Senanayake Athauda Seneviratne Ranjith Siyambalapitiya Mano Wijeyeratne

Ratnapura	Thalatha Atukorale Dunesh Gankanda Deepal Gunasekara Achala Jagodage Premalal Jayasekara Susantha Punchinilame Jayatissa Ranaweera Mahinda Ratnatilaka John Seneviratne Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi

Southern Province (25)

Galle	Vajira Abeywardena Amarasiri Dodangoda Chandima Weerakkody Piyasena Gamage Gayantha Karunathilaka Ajith Kumara Hemakumara Nanayakkara Lionel Premasiri Gunaratna Weerakoon Chandrasena Wijesinghe Thilakaratne Withanachchi

Hambantota	Mahinda Amaraweera Nihal Galappaththi Sajith Premadasa Chamal Rajapaksa Mahinda Rajapaksa Nirupama Rajapaksa Vijitha Ranaweera Dilip Wedaarachchi

Matara	Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena Chandrasiri Gajadeera Jinadasa Kitulagoda Pemasiri Manage Sagala Ratnayaka Mangala Samaraweera Mahinda Wijesekara

Uva Province (13)

Badulla	Nimal Siripala de Silva W. J. M. Lokubandara Dilan Perera Ravindra Samaraweera M. Satchithanandan Lakshman Senewiratne Vadivel Suresh K. V. Samantha Vidyaratna

Monaragala	R. M. Dharmadasa Banda R. M. Ranjith Madduma Bandara R. M. Padma Udhaya Shantha Gunasekera Sumedha G. Jayasena A. P. Jagath Pushpakumara

Western Province (47)

Colombo	Kotapola Amarakitti Thero Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi Uduwe Dhammaloka A. H. M. Fowzie Mano Ganesan Bandula Gunawardane Dinesh Gunawardena Sunil Handunnetti Ravi Karunanayake Jeewan Kumaranatunga Gamini Lokuge T. Maheswaran Mohamed Rajabdeen M. Mahroof M. H. Mohamed Milinda Moragoda Susil Premajayantha Arjuna Ranatunga Kahaluwe Ratnaseeha Akmeemana Dayarathana Thero Wimal Weerawansa Ranil Wickremesinghe

Gampaha	Lasantha Alagiyawanna Siripala Amarasinghe Sarath Kumara Gunaratna John Amaratunga Anura Bandaranaike Sarana Gunawardena Pandu Bandaranaike Jeyaraj Fernandopulle Duleep Wijesekera Edward Gunasekara Vijitha Herath Karu Jayasuriya Jayalath Jayawardena Felix Perera Joseph Michael Perera Aparekke Punnananda Thero Sarathchandra Rajakaruna Sripathi Sooriyarachchi Reggie Ranatunga Neil Rupasinghe Kolonnawe Sri Sumangala Thero Alawwe Nandaloka Thero A. R. Anjan Umma

Kalutara	Rohitha Abeygunawardena Reginald Cooray Nirmala Kotalawala Nandana Gunathilake Sarath Ranawaka Ananda Lakshman Wijemanna Athuraliye Rathana Thero Mahinda Samarasinghe S. A. Jayantha Samaraweera Rajitha Senaratne Kumara Welgama Piyasiri Wijenayake

National List (29)

JHU	Ellawala Medhananda Thero Omalpe Sobhitha Champika Ranawaka

SLMC	Hasen Ali

TNA	M. K. Eelaventhan Raseen Mohammed Imam Joseph Pararajasingham C. Chandrakanthan

UNF	Hussein Ahamed Bhaila K. N. Choksy Basheer Segu Dawood Rauff Hakeem Navin Dissanayake Abdul Baiz Kamardeen Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana M. Mohamed Musthaffa G. L. Peiris W. P. S. Pushpakumara V. Puththirasigamoney Ismail Mohammed Quddus S. Nijamudeen P. Radhakrishnan M. S. Sellasamy

UPFA	Ramalingam Chandrasekar D. E. W. Gunasekera Gitanjana Gunawardena M. H. Cegu Isadean Mohamed Ismail Anwar Ismail Basil Rajapaksa Lakshman Kadirgamar Dullas Alahapperuma J. A. Mary Lucida Mervyn Silva Janadasa Peiris Ratnasiri Wickremanayake H. M. Wasantha Samarasinghe V. Muralitharan Philipps Sri Liyanage Mohamed Mussammil Tissa Vitharana Wiswa Warnapala E. A. D. C. Weerasekera Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe

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Western

Colombo	Sarath Fonseka (Jayantha Ketagoda) A. H. M. Fowzie Praba Ganeshan Mohan Lal Grero Bandula Gunawardane Dinesh Gunawardena Sunil Handunnetti Ravi Karunanayake Jeewan Kumaranatunga Gamini Lokuge Susil Premajayantha Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe Champika Ranawaka Sujeewa Senasinghe Rosy Senanayake Duminda Silva Thilanga Sumathipala Wimal Weerawansa Ranil Wickramasinghe

Gampaha	Lasantha Alagiyawanna John Amaratunga Pandu Bandaranaike Sudarshani Fernandopulle Sarath Kumara Gunaratne Sarana Gunawardena Vijitha Herath Karu Jayasuriya Jayalath Jayawardena Ajith Mannapperuma Felix Perera Basil Rajapaksa Ruwan Ranatunga Athuraliye Rathana Wasantha Senanayake Mervyn Silva Upeksha Swarnamali Dulip Wijeysekara Ruwan Wijewardene

Kalutara	Rohitha Abeygunawardena Reginald Cooray Nirmala Kotalawala Ajith Perera Arjuna Ranatunga Mahinda Samarasinghe Rajitha Senaratne Palitha Thewarapperuma Kumara Welgama Vidura Wickremenayake

Central

Kandy	Mahindananda Aluthgamage Dilum Amunugama Sarath Amunugama Abdul Cadar S. B. Dissanayake Rauff Hakeem M. H. A. Haleem Lakshman Kiriella Faiszer Musthapha Keheliya Rambukwella Lohan Ratwatte Eric Prasanna Weerawardena

Matale	Wasantha Aluwihare Rohana Dissanayake Nandimithra Ekanayake Lakshman Wasantha Perera Janaka Bandara Tennakoon

Nuwara Eliya	Palani Digambaran Navin Dissanayake Sri Ranga Jeyaratnam Velusami Radhakrishnan Perumal Rajathurai C. B. Rathnayake Arumugam Thondaman

Southern

Galle	Piyasena Gamage Sajin Vass Gunawardena Gayantha Karunathilaka Ajith Kumara Nishantha Muthuhettigamage Manusha Nanayakkara Ramesh Pathirana Mohan De Silva Chandima Weerakkody Gunaratna Weerakoon

Matara	Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena Wijaya Dahanayake Chandrasiri Gajadeera Hemal Gunasekara Sanath Jayasuriya Buddhika Pathirana Mangala Samaraweera

Hambantota	Mahinda Amaraweera V. K. Indika Wehella Kankanamge Indika Sajith Premadasa Chamal Rajapaksa Namal Rajapaksa Nirupama Rajapaksa Dilip Wedaarachchi

Northern

Jaffna	Silvestri Alantine Murugesu Chandrakumar Douglas Devananda Vijayakala Maheswaran Suresh Premachandran Eswarapatham Saravanapavan Mavai Senathirajah Sivagnanam Sritharan Appathurai Vinayagamoorthy

Vanni	Selvam Adaikalanathan Sivasakthy Ananthan Risad Badhiutheen Hunais Farook Muthali Bawa Farook Noordeen Mashoor Vino Noharathalingam

Eastern

Batticaloa	Pakkiyaselvam Ariyanethiran Alim Mohamed Hisbulla Basheer Segu Dawood Pon Selvarasa Seeniththamby Yogeswaran

Digamadulla	A. L. M. Athaullah P. Dayaratna Cassim Faizal H. M. M. Harees Podiappuhamy Piyasena Sarath Weerasekara Sriyani Wijewickrama

Trincomalee	Susantha Punchinilame M. K. A. D. S. Gunawardana Rajavarothiam Sampanthan M. S. Thowfeek

North Western

Kurunegala	Ashoka Abeysinghe K. W. Shantha Bandara Indika Bandaranayake Tharanath Basnayaka Salinda Dissanayake T. B. Ekanayake Johnston Fernando Jayarathna Herath Nalin Bandara Jayamaha Dayasiri Jayasekara Akila Viraj Kariyawasam S.B. Nawinne Gamini Jayawickrama Perera Neranjan Wickramasinghe Nimal Wijesinghe Anura Priyadharshana Yapa

Puttalam	Palitha Range Bandara Arundika Fernando Milroy Fernando Piyankara Jayaratne Niroshan Perera Neomal Perera Victor Anthony Perera Dayasritha Thissera

North Central

Anuradhapura	Chandrani Bandara Jayasinghe S. M. Chandrasena Duminda Dissanayake P. Weerakumara Dissanayake W. B. Ekanayake P. Harrison Tissa Karalliyadde Sarath Chandrasiri Muthukumarana Asanka Shehan Semasinghe

Polonnaruwa	Earl Gunasekara Roshan Ranasinghe Siripala Gamalath Maithripala Sirisena Jayasinghe Bandara C. A. Suriyaarachchi

Uva

Badulla	Lal Chamika Buddhadasa Nimal Siripala De Silva Harin Fernando Udith Lokubandara Dilan Perera Rohana Pushpakumara Lakshman Senewiratne Amith Thenuka Vidanagamage

Monaragala	Vijitha Berugoda Sumedha G. Jayasena R.M. Ranjith Madduma Bandara A. P. Jagath Pushpakumara Gamini Vijith Wijithamuni De Zoysa

Sabaragamuwa

Ratnapura	Thalatha Atukorale Dunesh Gankanda Premalal Jayasekara Vasudeva Nanayakkara Ranjan Ramanayake Sanee Rohana Kodithuvakku W. D. J. Senewiratne Ranjith de Zoysa Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi Janaka Wakkumbura

Kegalle	Jagath Balasuriya Lalith Dissanayake Kanaka Herath Kabir Hashim H. R. Mithrapala Champika Premadasa Y. G. Padmasiri Athauda Seneviratne Ranjith Siyambalapitiya

National List

UPFA	Dullas Alahapperuma A.H.M. Asvar Malini Fonseka Achala Jagodage D. M. Jayaratne D. E. W. Gunasekera Gitanjana Gunawardena Ellawala Medhananda Thero Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan G. L. Peiris Janaka Priyantha Bandara Kamala Ranathunga Muthu Sivalingam J. R. P. Suriyapperuma Ratnasiri Wickremanayake Rajiva Wijesinha Tissa Vitharana

UNF	Hasen Ali M. S. M. Aslam Tissa Attanayake Harsha de Silva Anoma Gamage M. Joseph Michael Perera D. M. Swaminathan Eran Wickramaratne Ramaiah Yogarajan

DNA	Tiran Alles Anura Kumara Dissanayaka

TNA	M. A. Sumanthiran

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Central Province (25)

Kandy	Ananda Aluthgamage Mahindananda Aluthgamage Dilum Amunugama Mayantha Dissanayake Rauff Hakeem M. H. A. Haleem Anuradha Jayaratne Lucky Jayawardena Lakshman Kiriella Keheliya Rambukwella Lohan Ratwatte M. Velu Kumar

Matale	Ranjith Aluwihare Wasantha Aluwihare Lakshman Wasantha Perera Janaka Bandara Tennakoon R. Wijerathne

Nuwara Eliya	Palani Digambaran Navin Dissanayake K. K. Piyadhasa Velusami Radhakrishnan C. B. Rathnayake Muthu Sivalingam M. Thilakarajah Arumugam Thondaman

Eastern Province (16)

Ampara	Wimalaweera Dissanayake Cassim Faizal Daya Gamage H. M. M. Harees K. Kodeeswaran Mansoor Ibrahim Sriyani Wijewickrama

Batticaloa	Ali Ameer Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana G. Sirinesan S. Viyalendiran S. Yogeswaran

Trincomalee	Imran Maharoof M. A. M. Maharoof Susantha Punchinilame R. Sampanthan

Northern Province (13)

Jaffna	Douglas Devananda Vijayakala Maheswaran E. Saravanapavan Mavai Senathirajah D. Siddarthan S. Sritharan M. A. Sumanthiran

Vanni	Selvam Adaikalanathan Sivasakthy Ananthan Risad Badhiutheen Cader Cader Masthan Charles Nirmalanathan S. Sivamohan

North Central Province (14)

Anuradhapura	S. M. Chandrasena Duminda Dissanayake Weerakumara Dissanayake Chandima Gamage P. Harrison Abdul Rahuman Izak Chandrani Bandara Jayasinghe Sarath Chandrasiri Muthukumarana Asanka Shehan Semasinghe

Polonnaruwa	Siripala Gamalath Sidney Jayarathna Nalaka Kolonne Roshan Ranasinghe Wasantha Senanayake

North Western Province (23)

Kurunegala	Ashoka Abeysinghe J. C. Alawathuwala Indika Bandaranayake Tharanath Basnayaka Salinda Dissanayake T. B. Ekanayake Johnston Fernando Thushara Indunil Nalin Bandara Dayasiri Jayasekara Akila Viraj Kariyawasam S. B. Nawinne Gamini Jayawickrama Perera Mahinda Rajapaksa Anura Priyadharshana Yapa

Puttalam	Shantha Abeysekara Hector Appuhamy Palitha Range Bandara Arundika Fernando Piyankara Jayaratne Sanath Nishantha Niroshan Perera Ashoka Priyantha

Sabaragamuwa Province (20)

Kegalle	Tharaka Balasuriya Kabir Hashim Kanaka Herath Dushmantha Mithrapala Sujith Sanjaya Perera Champika Premadasa Sandith Samarasinghe Ranjith Siyambalapitiya Thusitha Wijemanne

Ratnapura	Thalatha Atukorale Thirimadura Ranjith de Soysa Dunesh Gankanda Premalal Jayasekara Vasudeva Nanayakkara Karu Paranawithana John Seneviratne Janaka Wakkumbura Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi A. A. Wijethunga Ankumbura Withanage

Southern Province (25)

Galle	Vajira Abeywardena Bandula Lal Bandarigoda Mohan de Silva Wijepala Hettiarachchi Gayantha Karunathilaka Geetha Kumarasinghe Nishantha Muthuhettigamage Manusha Nanayakkara Ramesh Pathirana Chandima Weerakkody

Hambantota	Mahinda Amaraweera D. V. Chanaka Nihal Galappaththi Sajith Premadasa Chamal Rajapaksa Namal Rajapaksa Dilip Wedaarachchi

Matara	Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena Dullas Alahapperuma Chandrasiri Gajadeera Buddhika Pathirana Niroshan Premaratne Sagala Ratnayaka Mangala Samaraweera Kanchana Wijesekera

Uva Province (13)

Badulla	A. Aravind Kumar Chamara Sampath Dassanayake Lakshman Senewiratne Nimal Siripala de Silva Harin Fernando Ravindra Samaraweera Vadivel Suresh Amith Thenuka Vidanagamage Chaminda Wijesiri

Monaragala	R. M. Ranjith Madduma Bandara Vijitha Berugoda Padma Udayashnatha Gunasekara Sumedha G. Jayasena Ananda Kumarasiri

Western Province (47)

Colombo	Harsha de Silva Anura Kumara Dissanayaka Udaya Gammanpila Mano Ganesan Mohan Lal Grero Bandula Gunawardane Dinesh Gunawardena Ravi Karunanayake Gamini Lokuge Saidulla Marikkar Hirunika Premachandra Susil Premajayantha Mujibur Rahman Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe Champika Ranawaka Sujeewa Senasinghe Wimal Weerawansa Eran Wickramaratne Ranil Wickremesinghe

Gampaha	Lasantha Alagiyawanna John Amaratunga Indika Anuruddha Sudarshani Fernandopulle Edward Gunasekara Vijitha Herath Sisira Jayakody Kavinda Jayawardena Nimal Lanza Ajith Mannapperuma Harshana Rajakaruna Ranjan Ramanayake Arjuna Ranatunga Prasanna Ranatunga Prasanna Ranaweera Chathura Senarathne Duleep Wijesekera Ruwan Wijewardene

Kalutara	Rohitha Abeygunawardena H. M. Piyal Nishantha de Silva Ajith Perera S. A. Jayantha Samaraweera Nalinda Jayatissa Rajitha Senaratne Palitha Thewarapperuma Kumara Welgama Vidura Wickremenayake L. A. Wijemanne

National List (29)

JVP	Sunil Handunnetti Sarath Chandrasiri Mayadunne Bimal Rathnayaka

TNA	Shanthi Sriskantharajah K. Thurairetnasingam

UNFGG	Sirinal de Mel Anoma Gamage M. K. A. D. S. Gunawardana Sarath Fonseka A. R. A. Hafeez M. S. Thowfeek Karu Jayasuriya Tilak Marapana C. A. Marasinghe M. H. M. Navavi Athuraliye Rathana Thero M. H. M. Salman Malik Samarawickrama D. M. Swaminathan Jayampathy Wickramaratne

UPFA	Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena Sarath Amunugama S. B. Dissanayake A. H. M. Fowzie M. L. A. M. Hizbullah Malith Jayathilake Faiszer Musthapha Dilan Perera Angajan Ramanathan Mahinda Samarasinghe Gamini Vijith Vijithamuni Soysa Thilanga Sumathipala

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