Podiappuhamy Piyasena

Hon. Podiappuhamy Piyasena MP
පොඩි අප්පුහාම් පියසේන பொடியப்புகாமி பியசேன

Member of Parliament for Ampara District
In office 2010–2015

Personal details
Born	(1961-04-03) 3 April 1961 (age 63)
Political party	United People's Freedom Alliance

Podiappuhamy H. P. Piyasena (born 3 April 1961) is a Sri Lankan politician and former Member of Parliament.

Early life

Piyasena was born on 3 April 1961.^[1]

Career

Piyasena was one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Ampara District at the 2010 parliamentary election. He was elected and entered Parliament.^[2] Piyasena was the first Sinhalese to be elected parliament from a Tamil political party (his father is Sinhalese and his mother is Tamil).^[3]^[4]

In September 2010 Piyasena defected to the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA).^[5] He was one of the UPFA's candidates in Ampara District at the 2015 parliamentary election but failed to get re-elected after coming eighth amongst the UPFA candidates.^[6]

Electoral history

Electoral history of Podiappuhamy Piyasena
Election	Constituency	Party	Votes	Result
2010 parliamentary^[2]	Ampara District	TNA	11,139	Elected
2015 parliamentary^[6]	Ampara District	UPFA	4,901	Not elected

References

^ "Directory of Members: P. Piyasena". Parliament of Sri Lanka.
^ ^a ^b "Parliamentary General Election - 2010 Digamadulla Preferences" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2010.
^ Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (17 April 2010). "T.N.A. PERFORMS CREDITABLY IN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). Archived from the original on 23 May 2010. Retrieved 18 April 2010.
^ Chandrapala, Wasantha (18 April 2010). "The 'Sinhalaya' on the TNA ticket". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). Retrieved 18 April 2010.
^ Arthur Wamanan (12 June 2011). "TNA defector will not join TMVP". The Nation (Sri Lanka). Retrieved 12 June 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Ranil tops with over 500,000 votes in Colombo". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 19 August 2015.

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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
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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 Rishad Bathiudeen 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
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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

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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 Dissanayake
TNA	M. A. Sumanthiran