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Hon. Praba Ganesan
பிரபா கணேசன்

Deputy Minister of Telecommunication & Information Technology
In office 2014–2015
Member of Parliament for Colombo District
In office 2010–2015
Member of the Western Provincial Council for Colombo District
In office 2004–2010

Personal details
Born	(1964-01-04) 4 January 1964 (age 60)
Political party	Democratic People's Congress
Other political affiliations	United People's Freedom Alliance

Adawan Amal Praba Ganesan (Tamil: பிரபா கணேசன்; born 4 January 1964) is a Sri Lankan politician and former member of parliament. He is the current leader of the Democratic People's Congress (DPC), a member of the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA).^[1]

Early life and family

Ganesan was born on 4 January 1964.^[2] He is a son of V. P. Ganesan, trade unionist and film producer, and brother of Mano Ganesan, Member of Parliament.^[3]^[4]

Career

Ganesan contested the 2004 provincial council election as one of the Western People's Front's candidates in Colombo District and was elected to the Western Provincial Council.^[5] He was re-elected at the 2009 provincial council election, this times as a United National Front (UNF) candidate.^[6]

Ganesan contested the 2010 parliamentary election as one of the UNF candidates in Colombo District. He was elected and entered Parliament.^[7] In August 2010 Ganesan defected to the governing United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA).^[8] He was suspended from the Democratic People's Front.^[9] He subsequently founded a political party called the Democratic Peoples Congress.^[10]

Ganesan was appointed Deputy Minister of Telecommunication and Information Technology on 21 August 2014.^[11]^[12] At the 2015 presidential election, whilst other Indian Tamil politicians flocked to support common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena, Ganesan remained loyal to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, leader of the UPFA. Following Sirisena's victory Ganesan lost his ministerial position.

Ganesan did not contest the 2015 parliamentary election but was instead placed on the UPFA's list of National List candidates.^[13]^[14] However, after the election he was not appointed to the National List.^[15]^[16]

Electoral history

Electoral history of Praba Ganesan
Election	Constituency	Party	Votes	Result
2004 provincial^[5]	Colombo District	WPF	6,459	Elected
2009 provincial^[6]	Colombo District	UNF	45,899	Elected
2010 parliamentary^[7]	Colombo District	UNF	42,851	Elected

References

^ "Prabha Ganesan up in arms". Ceylon Today. 3 November 2012.
^ "Directory of Members: Praba Ganesan". Parliament of Sri Lanka.
^ "I was nearly killed - Ganesan". The Sunday Leader. 27 July 2008.
^ "Voting for a cause..." The Nation (Sri Lanka). 12 September 2010.
^ ^a ^b "Results of Provincial Council Elections 2004" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 January 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Preferences Colombo" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Parliamentary General Election - 2010 Colombo Preferences" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2010.
^ Kelum Bandara and Yohan Perera (6 August 2010). "Govt: Just 5 more to 2/3". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka).^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "DPF suspends Praba Ganesan for 'betraying' party, Tamils". TamilNet. 6 August 2010.
^ "Democratic Peoples Congress opens its Head Office in Bambalapitiya". adaderana.lk. 15 May 2011.
^ Somawardana, Melissa (21 August 2014). "Prabha Ganesan and Digambaran sworn in as Deputy Ministers". News First.
^ "Two more Deputy Ministers take oaths before President in Si Lanka". Colombo Page. 21 August 2014.
^ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ACT, No. 1 OF 1981 List of Persons submitted under Article 99A of the Constitution" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1923/02. 13 July 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015.
^ "UPFA, UNP national lists announced". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 13 July 2015.
^ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION — 2015 Declaration under Article 99A of the Constitution" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1928/25. 21 August 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015.
^ "UPFA finalises National list". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 21 August 2015.

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Western

Colombo	Sarath Fonseka (Jayantha Ketagoda) A. H. M. Fowzie Praba Ganeshan Mohan Lal Grero Bandula Gunawardane Dinesh Gunawardena Sunil Handunnetti Ravi Karunanayake Jeewan Kumaranatunga Gamini Lokuge Susil Premajayantha Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe Champika Ranawaka Sujeewa Senasinghe Rosy Senanayake Duminda Silva Thilanga Sumathipala Wimal Weerawansa Ranil Wickremesinghe
Gampaha	Lasantha Alagiyawanna John Amaratunga Pandu Bandaranaike Sudarshani Fernandopulle Sarath Kumara Gunaratne Sarana Gunawardena Vijitha Herath Karu Jayasuriya Jayalath Jayawardena Ajith Mannapperuma Felix Perera Basil Rajapaksa Ruwan Ranatunga Athuraliye Rathana Wasantha Senanayake Mervyn Silva Upeksha Swarnamali Dulip Wijeysekara Ruwan Wijewardene
Kalutara	Rohitha Abeygunawardena Reginald Cooray Nirmala Kotalawala Ajith Perera Arjuna Ranatunga Mahinda Samarasinghe Rajitha Senaratne Palitha Thewarapperuma Kumara Welgama Vidura Wickremenayake

Central

Kandy	Mahindananda Aluthgamage Dilum Amunugama Sarath Amunugama Abdul Cadar S. B. Dissanayake Rauff Hakeem M. H. A. Haleem Lakshman Kiriella Faiszer Musthapha Keheliya Rambukwella Lohan Ratwatte Eric Prasanna Weerawardhana
Matale	Wasantha Aluwihare Rohana Dissanayake Nandimithra Ekanayake Lakshman Wasantha Perera Janaka Bandara Tennakoon
Nuwara Eliya	Palani Digambaran Navin Dissanayake Sri Ranga Jeyaratnam Velusami Radhakrishnan Perumal Rajathurai C. B. Rathnayake Arumugam Thondaman

Southern

Galle	Piyasena Gamage Sajin Vass Gunawardena Gayantha Karunathilaka Ajith Kumara Nishantha Muthuhettigamage Manusha Nanayakkara Ramesh Pathirana Mohan De Silva Chandima Weerakkody Gunaratna Weerakoon
Matara	Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena Wijaya Dahanayake Chandrasiri Gajadeera Hemal Gunasekara Sanath Jayasuriya Buddhika Pathirana Mangala Samaraweera
Hambantota	Mahinda Amaraweera V. K. Indika Wehella Kankanamge Indika Sajith Premadasa Chamal Rajapaksa Namal Rajapaksa Nirupama Rajapaksa Dilip Wedaarachchi

Northern

Jaffna	Silvestri Alantine Murugesu Chandrakumar Douglas Devananda Vijayakala Maheswaran Suresh Premachandran Eswarapatham Saravanapavan Mavai Senathirajah Sivagnanam Sritharan Appathurai Vinayagamoorthy
Vanni	Selvam Adaikalanathan Sivasakthy Ananthan Rishad Bathiudeen Hunais Farook Muthali Bawa Farook Noordeen Mashoor Vino Noharathalingam

Eastern

Batticaloa	Pakkiyaselvam Ariyanethiran Alim Mohamed Hisbulla Basheer Segu Dawood Pon Selvarasa Seeniththamby Yogeswaran
Digamadulla	A. L. M. Athaullah P. Dayaratna Cassim Faizal H. M. M. Harees Podiappuhamy Piyasena Sarath Weerasekara Sriyani Wijewickrama
Trincomalee	Susantha Punchinilame M. K. A. D. S. Gunawardana Rajavarothiam Sampanthan M. S. Thowfeek

North Western

Kurunegala	Ashoka Abeysinghe K. W. Shantha Bandara Indika Bandaranayake Tharanath Basnayaka Salinda Dissanayake T. B. Ekanayake Johnston Fernando Jayarathna Herath Nalin Bandara Dayasiri Jayasekara Akila Viraj Kariyawasam S.B. Nawinne Gamini Jayawickrama Perera Neranjan Wickramasinghe Nimal Wijesinghe Anura Priyadharshana Yapa
Puttalam	Palitha Range Bandara Arundika Fernando Milroy Fernando Piyankara Jayaratne Niroshan Perera Neomal Perera Victor Anthony Perera Dayasritha Thissera

North Central

Anuradhapura	Chandrani Bandara Jayasinghe S. M. Chandrasena Duminda Dissanayake P. Weerakumara Dissanayake W. B. Ekanayake P. Harrison Tissa Karalliyadde Sarath Chandrasiri Muthukumarana Asanka Shehan Semasinghe
Polonnaruwa	Earl Gunasekara Roshan Ranasinghe Siripala Gamalath Maithripala Sirisena Jayasinghe Bandara C. A. Suriyaarachchi

Uva

Badulla	Lal Chamika Buddhadasa Nimal Siripala De Silva Harin Fernando Udith Lokubandara Dilan Perera Rohana Pushpakumara Lakshman Senewiratne Amith Thenuka Vidanagamage
Monaragala	Vijitha Berugoda Sumedha G. Jayasena R.M. Ranjith Madduma Bandara A. P. Jagath Pushpakumara Gamini Vijith Wijithamuni De Zoysa

Sabaragamuwa

Ratnapura	Thalatha Atukorale Dunesh Gankanda Premalal Jayasekara Vasudeva Nanayakkara Ranjan Ramanayake Sanee Rohana Kodithuvakku W. D. J. Senewiratne Ranjith de Zoysa Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi Janaka Wakkumbura
Kegalle	Jagath Balasuriya Lalith Dissanayake Kanaka Herath Kabir Hashim H. R. Mithrapala Champika Premadasa Y. G. Padmasiri Athauda Seneviratne Ranjith Siyambalapitiya

National List

UPFA	Dullas Alahapperuma A.H.M. Asvar Malini Fonseka Achala Jagodage D. M. Jayaratne D. E. W. Gunasekera Gitanjana Gunawardena Ellawala Medhananda Thero Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan G. L. Peiris Janaka Priyantha Bandara Kamala Ranathunga Muthu Sivalingam J. R. P. Suriyapperuma Ratnasiri Wickremanayake Rajiva Wijesinha Tissa Vitharana
UNF	Hasen Ali M. S. M. Aslam Tissa Attanayake Harsha de Silva Anoma Gamage M. Joseph Michael Perera D. M. Swaminathan Eran Wickramaratne Ramaiah Yogarajan
DNA	Tiran Alles Anura Kumara Dissanayake
TNA	M. A. Sumanthiran