LG elections campaign banners from Kinniya, Trincomalee District

Radio programmes of nominated candidates from the Badulla district

Suneetha Chandra Kumari on 'Kantha Handa' - Badulla District by wmcsrilanka


Ranjani Malkanthi on "Kantha Handa" - Badulla District by wmcsrilanka


Pushpa Malkanthi on 'Kantha Handa' - Badulla District by wmcsrilanka


Priyadari Thomas on 'Kantha Handa' - Badulla District by wmcsrilanka


Nandani Rajapakse on ' Kantha Handa' - Badulla District by wmcsrilanka


S.A.R Ganawathi on 'Kantha Handa' - Badulla District by wmcsrilanka


Jayawathi Ekanayake on 'Kantha Handa' - Badulla district by wmcsrilanka


Violet Somasiri on Kantha Handa - Badulla District by wmcsrilanka

Vote for a woman at the Local Government Elections Sri lanka 2011 - Radio Campaigns by WDC Badulla

Viridu campaign by Women's Development Center, Badulla by wmcsrilanka

Votes for women - Introduction programme by Women's Development Center, Badulla by wmcsrilanka

Radio advertisement - Women's Development Center, Badulla by wmcsrilanka

Radio programme on press conference in Badulla by wmcsrilanka

Women candidates' campaign posters

Vote for a woman at the Local Government Elections Sri lanka 2011 - Radio Advertisements (National Campaign)

Radio advertisement National Campaign (Sinhala) by wmcsrilanka

Radio advertisement National Campaign (Tamil) by wmcsrilanka

Vote for a woman at the Local Government Elections Sri lanka 2011 - Television Advertisements (National Campaign)

Sinhala



Tamil

District level press briefings

Badulla

Galle



Kurunegala



Monaragala



Trincomalee

List of nominated women

A total of 181 women were put forward by WMC and 72 were successful in receiving nominations for the upcoming local government election. Click here to find a detailed list. 

The following are the number of women put forward by WMC from each district and the corresponding number who received nominations.

District	Number of women put forward by WMC	Number of women who received nominations
Kurunegala	62	18
Badulla	39	20
Galle	38	15
Monaragala	15	02
Trincomalee	28	16

Sinhala petition calling for political parties to increase nominations for women at the LG elections

ප‍්‍රාදේශීය සභා, නගර සභා සහ මහ නගර සභාවල කාන්තා නියෝජනය වැඩිකරනු !

ඡන්ද පොරොන්දු ඉටුකිරීමට ජනාධිපතිතුමාට පක්‍ෂවලට හා නව මැති ඇමතිවරුන්ට අවස්ථාවක් 

ලංකාවේ පවසර 70 ක් තුළ 1.8% ක අවම මට්ටමක පවතී.

2006  __________ දිස්ත‍්‍රික්කයෙන් පත්වුණ ප‍්‍රාදේශීය සභා මන්ත‍්‍රීන් __________අතරින් කාන්තාවන්  ________පමණක් සිටින බව ඔබ දන්නවාද? 

එයට හේතුව එම මැතිවරණයේ දී __________ දිස්ත‍්‍රික්කයෙන් පිරිමින්  __________කට නාමයෝජනා ලැබුණේ කාන්තාවන් ________ට පමණි.

2010 දී පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත ප‍්‍රාදේශීය සභා, නගර සභා සහ මහ නගර සභා ඡන්දයේ දී ඔබගේ පක්‍ෂ ප‍්‍රතිපත්ති ප‍්‍රකාශනවල දුන් පොරොන්දු අනුව කාන්තාවන්ට 25% ක නාමයෝජනා ලබාදෙන ලෙස කරන ඉල්ලීමයි මේ !!

	නම/තනතුර	ආයතනය	පලාත	අත්සන
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Tamil petition calling for political parties to increase nominations for women at the LG elections

கிராமத்திலிருந்தும் நகரத்திலிருந்தும் அரசியலுக்கு பெண்கள

பிரதேச சபைஇ நகர சபை மற்றும் மாநகர சபைகளில்
பெண்கள் பிரதிநிதித்துவத்தை அதிகாpக்கவூம்!

தேHதல் வாக்குறுதிகளை நிறைவேற்றுவதற்கு சனாதிபதி அவHகளுக்கும் கட்சிகளுக்கும் புதிய அமைச்சHகள் மற்றும் பாராளுமன்ற உறுப்பினHகளுக்குமான ஒரு சந்தHப்பம்

இலங்கையில் உள்@ராட்சி மன்றங்களில் பெண்களின் பிரதிநிதித்துவம் 70 ஆண்டுகளாக 1.8™ வீத ஆகக் குறைந்த மட்டத்திலேயே உள்ளது.

2006 இல் ………………… மாவட்டத்திலிருந்து நியமிக்கப்பட்ட பிரதேச சபை உறுப்பினHகள் …………. போpல் பெண்கள் ……… பேH மட்டுமே உள்ளனH என்பதை நீங்கள் அறிவீHகளா?

மேற்படி தேHதலின் போது ………………. மாவட்டத்திலிருந்து ஆண்கள் …... பேருக்கும் பெண்கள் ……. பேருக்கும் பெயH நியமனம் கிடைத்தமையே இதற்கான காரணமாகும்.

2010 இல் நடைபெறவூள்ள பிரதேச சபைஇ நகர சபை மற்றும் மாநகர சபைக்கான தேHதலின் போது உங்களது கட்சியின் கொள்கை விஞ்ஞாபனத்தில் அளிக்கப்பட்டுள்ள வாக்குறுதிகளின்படி பெண்களுக்கு 25™ வீத பெயH நியமனத்தை வழங்குமாறு கோருகின்ற வேண்டுகோளே இது!! 

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Radio advertisement calling all politicians and political parties to ensure nominations for women at the upcoming Local Government electons

 Radio advertisement - National Campaign (Sinhala) by wmcsrilanka 

Radio advertisement calling all women to hand over their applications for nominations for the Local Government elections

 Radio advertisement - National Campaign (Sinhala) by wmcsrilanka 

Tamil radio talk show, "Irulil Oar Oli" with Inthumathy

  Tamil radio talk show, "Irulil Oar Oli" with Inthumathy by wmcsrilanka

Tamil radio talk show - "Irulil Oar Oli" with Shanthi Sachithanandam

  Tamil radio talk show, "Irulil Oar Oli" with Shanthi Sachithanandam by wmcsrilanka

Muhamad Bowsy Mumthaj Bergam

Name: Muhamad Bowsy Mumthaj Bergam

Political Party: United National Party

Age: 34

District: Trincomalee

Profession : Social worker

Positions held within the party: Party Member

Activities carried out within the party:

Organized propaganda meetings on the request of the local politicians and canvassed for the party

Activities carried out for the public:

Involved in Social service for the last 10 years and offered help to the differently people with NGOs support.

Supporting to give the grant to widows with their societies support.

Organizing Shramadhana works and representing the village to solve common issues and problems in the village with the different authorities are the frequent initiatives she undertook.

She has participated in the ‘Gender and Equality’ and ‘Women and Politics’ training programmes organized respectively Women Development Officers and ‘Viluthu’.

She is interested in politics since the 2006 Local Government elections.

Olumutheen Naleefa

Name: Olumutheen Naleefa

Political Party: Sri Lanka Muslim Congress

Age: 27

District: Trincomalee

Profession : Social worker

Positions held within the party: Party Member

Activities carried out within the party:

Organized propaganda meetings on the request of the local politicians and canvassed for the party

Activities carried out for the public:

She has been the treasure of Aleena women’s society .

She supports women entering politics so that their services should reach all levels.

Interested in politics since 2009, as a result of being Involved with the women’s society.

She has participated in the training programs on gender programs and awareness programs.

Thankavel Lalitha

Name: Thankavel Lalitha

Political Party: Tamil National Alliance

 

Age: 33

District: Trincomalee

Profession : Social worker

Positions held within the party: Party Member

Activities carried out within the party:

Organized propaganda meetings on the request of the local politicians and canvassed for the party

Activities carried out for the public:

She has been involved in social services for more than five years

She was treasurer of the  Women Rural Development Society (4 Years)

The field officer of Akshaya organization

She worked with CARE international and Aham to get the micro credit and housing scheme to give their areas.

She has participated in leadership & politics training programmes from UNDP, Aham, Akshaya & WOCOD.

Thiugnanamoorthy Mekala

Name: Thiugnanamoorthy Mekala

Political Party: Tamil National Alliance

Age: 34

District: Trincomalee

Profession : Social worker

Positions held within the party: Party Member

Activities carried out within the party:

Organized propaganda meetings on the request of the local politicians and canvassed for the party

Activities carried out for the public:

She was treasurer of the  Women Rural Development Society  (8 Years)

Secretary of the Lampothara temple of maintenance committee & Farmer Organization.

She was the coordinator of Virudchcham Community Based Organization.

Field officer of World Vision

Budgetary committee of Verugal PS

Has been involved in social services for more than ten years

She says, women should become to politics and they can build up the opportunity to solve the problems of women.

Emalin Ragal

Name: Emalin Ragal

Political Party: Tamil National Alliance

Age: 44

District: Trincomalee

Profession : NGO staff

Positions held within the party: Party Member

Activities carried out within the party:

Organized propaganda meetings on the request of the local politicians and canvassed for the party

Activities carried out for the public:

The president of Samurdhi Task Force & Thrift & credit co-operative society of Uthayapuri area

The member of Uthayapuri Peace committee

She is maintained good will and relationships among Government Officers & Non-Governmental Organizations

She has received the micro credit scheme to issue through their societies from NGOs and issued school bags, shoes and exercise books and nutritious food.

She is very keen on community and women development and she participated on leadership, communication, village development & project proposals, Local Government & Social Accountability, human rights & violence against women training programs

Ranjith Nageswary

Name: Ranjith Nageswary

Political Party: United People’s Freedom Alliance

Year she joined the party:

Age: 31

District: Trincomalee

Profession : District Representative

Activities carried out for the public:

President of the Kalmunai Mother and Child Protection Group.

President of the YMCA small groups and she is involved in all activities.

Field Officer of Sri Lanka Red Cross Society’s Project for Gender Violence.

District Representative of the Women’s’ Network against Violence

Secretary of the WRDS of Nalanthapura, China-bay

Member of the Women Rural Development Society of Fizalnagar and Secretary of Parathipuram Rural Development Society

A member of the temple of maintenance committee.

Involved in politics for the last five years as a result of the call for all parties be united to contest.

සුසිලා ඩයස්

නම -  සුසිලා ඩයස්

පක්‍ෂය - එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂය

දිස්ති‍්‍රක්කය - බදුල්ල

හැරියට් නවරගම්මාන

නම -  හැරියට් නවරගම්මාන

පක්‍ෂය - එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂය

දිස්ති‍්‍රක්කය - බදුල්ල

කාන්චනා රුවන්මලී

නම  -  කාංචනා රුවන්මාලි

පක්‍ෂය  - එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂය

දිස්ති‍්‍රක්කය  - බදුල්ල

ප්‍රියංකා භේරත්

නම - පි‍්‍රයංකා හේරත්

පක්‍ෂය - එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂය

දිස්ති‍්‍රක්කය - බදුල්ල

ප්‍රියාදරි තොමස්

නම -  පි‍්‍රයාදරී තෝමසි

පක්‍ෂය - එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානය

දිස්ති‍්‍රක්කය - බදුල්ල

  Priyadari Thomas on 'Kantha Handa' - Badulla District by wmcsrilanka

පුණක බුද්ධදාස

නම -  පූණක බුද්ධදාස

පක්‍ෂය - එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානය

දිස්ති‍්‍රක්කය - බදුල්ල

සෝමා එදිසිංහ

නම -  සෝමා එදිරිසිංහ

පක්‍ෂය - එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානය

දිස්ති‍්‍රක්කය - බදුල්ල

F.R ඥාණවති

නම -  එෆ්. ආර්. ඥාණවතී

පක්‍ෂය - එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානය

දිස්ති‍්‍රක්කය - බදුල්ල

W.M. භේමලතා

නම -  ඩබි,එම්. හේමලතා

පක්‍ෂය - එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානය

පක්‍ෂයට බැඳුනු වර්ෂය -  2009

වයස - අවු  56

දිස්ති‍්‍රක්කය - බදුල්ල

වෘත්තිය -  පෙරපාසැල් පාලිිකා

පක්‍ෂය තුළ කි‍්‍රයාකාරිත්වය -
රිදිමාලියද්ද කාන්තා බල මණ්ඩලයේ සභාපති
ශ‍්‍රි ලංකා නිදහස් පක්‍ෂ බල මණ්ඩලයේ සභාපති
පසුගිය මැතිවරණ කටයුතු වලදි සහාය දැක්වීම

ප‍්‍රජාව තුළ කි‍්‍රයාකාරිත්වය -
ස්වයං රැකියා ලබා දීම
පෙරපාසැල් ගුරු පුහුණු උපකරණ ලබා දීම
පෝෂණ වැඩසටහන්
මහජන අධාර ලබා දීම
පෙර පාසැල් සංගමයේ සභාපති ලෙස කටයුතු කිරිම

ඉන්ද්‍රානි ප්‍රියාදරී

නම -  වඩුතන්තිරි ඉන්ද්‍රානි පි‍්‍රයාදරී

පක්‍ෂය - ශී‍්‍ර ලංකා නිදහස් පක්‍ෂය

පක්‍ෂයට බැඳුනු වර්ෂය -  1989

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දිස්ති‍්‍රක්කය - බදුල්ල

වෘත්තිය - ව්‍යාපාරික

පක්‍ෂය තුළ දරා ඇති තනතුරු -
පක්‍ෂයේ ශාඛා සමිතිවල නිලතල දරයි.

පක්‍ෂය තුළ කි‍්‍රයාකාරිත්වය -
පක්‍ෂයේ දියුණුව සඳහා ග‍්‍රාමිය ජනතාව දැනුවත් කරමින් පක්‍ෂයේ සාමාජික්වය වැඩි කිරීම සඳහා කටයුතු කිරීම.

ප‍්‍රජාව තුළ කි‍්‍රයාකාරිත්වය -
ගමේ පාසැල් කිහිපයක දරු දැරියන්ට පාසැල් පොත් හා පාසැල් උපකරණ බෙදාදීම
පෙර පාසැල් වලට උපකාර කිරීම
ආගමික ස්ථානවලට උදව් උපකාර කිරීම
රෝගීන්ට පිහිටවීම වැනි ප‍්‍රජා සේවාවන් කර ඇත.