Kotapola Amarakitti Thero

Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and politician

Hon. Kotapola Amarakitti

Member of Parliament for Colombo District
In office 2004–2010

Personal details
Born	(1949-02-02) 2 February 1949 (age 75)
Political party	Jathika Hela Urumaya
Other political affiliations	United People's Freedom Alliance
Residence(s)	"Seruwila Buddhist Centre", Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 07
Occupation	Buddhist monk

Kotapola Amarakitti Thero (born 2 February 1949) is a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and politician.^[1] He was a representative of Colombo for Jathika Hela Urumaya in the Parliament of Sri Lanka.

References

^ Najmuddin, Jamila (5 September 2004). "Showers of Blessing". Sunday Leader. Retrieved 3 August 2011.

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Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka (2004 (2004)–2010) →

Speaker: W. J. M. Lokubandara
Prime Minister: Mahinda Rajapaksa/Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
Leader of the Opposition: Ranil Wickremesinghe

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	S. Jeyanandamoorthy Thanmanpillai Kanagasabai Thangeswary Kathiraman Kingsley Rasanayagam P. Ariyanethiran Ameer Ali Shihabdeen
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 Rishad Bathiudeen S. Kanagaratnam S. Kishore Vino Noharathalingam

North Western Province (24)

Kurunegala	Indika Bandaranayake Bandula Basnayake Rohitha Bogollagama Anura Kumara Dissanayake 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 Tissera

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 Samantha Vidyaratna
Monaragala	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 Mohamed 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 Wasantha Samarasinghe V. Muralitharan Philipps Sri Liyanage Mohamed Mussammil Tissa Vitharana Wiswa Warnapala E. A. D. C. Weerasekera Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe

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Colombo Electoral District
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Members of the Sri Lankan Parliament from Colombo