Former Chief Justice’s husband and son had contested the general election
The former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake’s Shavin Bandaranayake had made a comment on Namal Rajapaksa’s Face Book for him to feel. Later there were talks that he would enter parliament if things change.
However he had without much fanfare has contested under Independent group no 09 to contest under the Colombo district Independent groups 15 where his friends and associates had helped. In this group a member is Shavin’s father former Chairman of the National Savings Bank Pradeep Kariyawasam.They are contesting under the symbol ‘torch’.Names of the Group 09
1 Atapattu Mudiyanselage Nimal Chandrasiri Ratnayake
2 Alawatta Upali Chandrasiri
3 Asela Sanjaya Deva de Silva Munasinghe
4 Indrani Swarna Senaratne Hasanali
5 Kariyawasam Ranaweera Kankanamlage Duminda Somiruwan Ranaweera.
6. Kuruppu Arachchilage Don Hemasiri
7.Thirimadura Shanaka De Silva
8.Dissanayakalage Subash Suminda Ranasinghe
9 Nei Shirani Abdeen
10. Pathmanathan Radeeka
11.Pradeep Santhush Kariyawasam
12 Prasanna Jagath Kukrukulasuriya
13.Balasuriya Lekamlage Srima Premakanthi Dhanawalavithana
14 Manjula Mendis Wijesinghe Samarasekara
15 Mariyadasa Cycala
16 Muthumini Upali Jayadeva De Silva
17.Rinsely Paul Anthonimuththu
18.Leelsisiri Ananda Wedaarachchi
19Vasantha Ratnakumari Senaratne
20.Praveen Noeshan Tamindra Bandaranayake Kariyawasam
21.Sudath Ajitha Samaradiwakara Jayasundara
22. Suresh Francis De Silva