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).