Chief Government Whip and Minister of Health and Mass Media, Nalinda Jayatissa, revealed in Parliament today (6 February) that 43 MPs received compensation from the government for property damage they claimed to have suffered during the 2022 anti-government protests.
Jayatissa presented the names of these MPs along with the amounts they received:
- Kapila Nuwan Athukorala – Rs. 504,000
- Wimalaweera Dissanayake – Rs. 550,000
- Geetha Kumarasinghe – Rs. 972,000
- Janaka Tissa Kuttiarachchi – Rs. 1.143 million
- Gunapala Ratnasekara – Rs. 1.413 million
- Premnath C. Dolawatta – Rs. 2.3 million
- Priyankara Jayaratne – Rs. 2.348 million
- Sampath Athukorala – Rs. 2.541 million
- Jayantha Ketagoda – Rs. 2.815 million
- Wimal Weerawansa – Rs. 2.954 million
- Channa Jayasumana – Rs. 3.334 million
- Akila Ellawala – Rs. 3.554 million
- Chamal Rajapaksa – Rs. 6.539 million
- Chandima Weerakkody – Rs. 6.949 million
- Ashoka Priyantha – Rs. 7.295 million
- Samanpriya Herath – Rs. 10.52 million
- Janaka Bandara Tennakoon – Rs. 10.55 million
- Rohitha Abeygunawardena – Rs. 11.64 million
- Seetha Arambepola – Rs. 13.78 million
- Sahan Pradeep – Rs. 17.13 million
- Shehan Semasinghe – Rs. 18.51 million
- Indika Anuruddha – Rs. 19.55 million
- Milan Jayathilaka – Rs. 22.3 million
- Dr. Ramesh Pathirana – Rs. 28.1 million
- Duminda Dissanayake – Rs. 28.8 million
- Kanaka Herath – Rs. 29.2 million
- D.B. Herath – Rs. 32.1 million
- Prasanna Ranaweera – Rs. 32.7 million
- W.D. Weerasinghe – Rs. 37.2 million
- Shantha Bandara – Rs. 39.1 million
- S.M. Chandrasena – Rs. 43.8 million
- Sanath Nishantha – Rs. 42.7 million
- Siripala Gamlath – Rs. 50.9 million
- Arundika Fernando – Rs. 55.2 million
- Sumith Udukumbura – Rs. 55.9 million
- Prasanna Ranatunga – Rs. 56.1 million
- Kokila Gunawardena – Rs. 58.7 million
- Mohan P. de Silva – Rs. 60.1 million
- Nimal Lanza – Rs. 69.2 million
- Ali Sabri Raheem – Rs. 70.9 million
- Gamini Lokuge – Rs. 74.9 million
- Johnston Fernando – Rs. 93.4 million
- Keheliya Rambukwella – Rs. 95.9 million
The total compensation received by these 43 MPs amounts to Rs. 1.224 billion (1,224.1 million rupees or 122.41 crore rupees).
