Ukku Banda Unamboowe

Hon.
Ukku Banda Unamboowe
OBE
Member of the Ceylon Parliament
for Kotagala
In office
1952–1956
Preceded byKaruppiah Kumaravelu
Succeeded byJ. D. Weerasekera
Personal details
Born
Ukku Banda Unamboowe

Kotmale
NationalityCeylonese
Political partyUnited National Party
SpouseMallika née Galagoda
Professiontea planter, politician

Ukku Banda Unamboowe OBE was a Ceylonese politician.[1]

Unamboowe attended Trinity College, Kandy and in 1924 was appointed Rate Mahatmaya (Chief Headman) of Kotmale.[2] He married Mallika née Galagoda (daughter of Madduma Banda Galagoda, Basnayake Nilame of Pattini Devale Kandy).[3] and in 1952 he was granted an OBE in the New Year's Honours, for agricultural services in Kotmale.[4]

At the 1st parliamentary election in 1947 K. Kumaravelu of the Ceylon Indian Congress was voted in as the member for Kotagala.[2][5] In 1948 the Parliament passed the Ceylon Citizenship Act and subsequently in 1949 passed the Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) Amendment Act No.48, whereby Indian citizens were unable to contest for parliamentary seats or vote, as a result the seat become vacant.[2][6][7]

Unambooke was appointed as the United National Party candidate winning the Kotagala electorate at the subsequent 1952 parliamentary election,[2] securing 46% of the total vote, 1,134 votes ahead of his nearest rival.[8][9] At the 3rd parliamentary election, held in April 1956, Unambooke failed to retain his seat losing to J. D. Weerasekera of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party by 1,523 votes.[10]

  1. ^ "Hon. Unamboowe, Ukku Banda, M.P." Parliament of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d Seneviratna, Anuradha (2001). Sunset in a Valley: Kotmale. Sarasavi Publishers. pp. 75–76. ISBN 9789555731485.
  3. ^ "Sri Lanka Kandyan Sinhala Family Genealogy - Madugalle - Family #3116". Worldgenweb.org. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  4. ^ Ceylon list: "No. 39424". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1951. pp. 45–46.
  5. ^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1947" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  6. ^ "Statelessness in Sri Lanka". UNHCR in Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 23 October 2009. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  7. ^ Ethnic Conflict of Sri Lanka: Time Line - From Independence to 1999 Archived 2009-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, International Centre for Ethnic Studies
  8. ^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1952" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  9. ^ "The Ceylon Historical Journal". 1–2. Tisara Prakasakayo. 1965: 159. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1956" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 22 September 2017.