Yadamini Gunawardena

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| name = Yadamini Gunawardena

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யாதமினி குணவர்த்தன

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| office1 = Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka

| constituency1 = National List

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| birth_name = Yadamini Narodhama Rupasinghe Gunawardena

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| party = Mahajana Eksath Peramuna

| otherparty = Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance

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| alma_mater = Royal College Colombo
University of Wisconsin–Superior
University of Wales

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Yadamini Narodhama Rupasinghe Gunawardena is a Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament.{{cite web |title=Directory of Members: Yadamini Gunawardena |url=https://www.parliament.lk/en/members-of-parliament/directory-of-members/viewMember/3438 |publisher=Parliament of Sri Lanka |access-date=21 August 2020 |location=Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka}}

Gunawardena is the son of Dinesh Gunawardena and grandson of Philip Gunawardena, both government ministers.{{cite news |title=All in the family – father and son duos |url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/200809/news/all-in-the-family-father-and-son-duos-411766.html |access-date=9 August 2020 |work=The Sunday Times |date=9 August 2020 |location=Colombo, Sri Lanka}}{{cite news |last1=Kirinde |first1=Chandani |title=New Parliament composition a 'not-so-strange' mix |url=http://www.ft.lk/front-page/New-Parliament-composition-a-not-so-strange-mix/44-704291 |access-date=9 August 2020 |work=Daily FT |date=8 August 2020 |location=Colombo, Sri Lanka}} His grandmother Kusumasiri Gunawardena was only the second elected female Member of Parliament in Sri Lanka.{{cite news |title=Dinesh Turns Three-Score |url=http://archives.dailynews.lk/2009/03/02/fea02.asp |access-date=5 October 2020 |work=Daily News |location=Colombo, Sri Lanka}}{{cite web |date=26 November 2010 |title=Lady Members |url=http://parliament.lk/handbook_of_parliament/lady_members.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20101126205955/http://parliament.lk/handbook_of_parliament/lady_members.jsp |archive-date=26 November 2010 |access-date=4 January 2024 |publisher=Parliament of Sri Lanka |df=dmy-all}} He completed primary and secondary education at Royal College Colombo.{{cite web|title=President's message to All Royalists|url=https://www.newswire.lk/2023/02/22/presidents-message-to-all-royalists/|access-date=25 February 2023 |work=NewsWire |date=22 February 2023 |location=Colombo, Sri Lanka}} He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Superior (2003) and the University of Wales (2013).{{cite web |title=Classmates |url=https://www.uwsuper.edu/alumni/connect/upload/Alumni-Magazine-Fall-2014.pdf |website=University of Wisconsin–Superior |publisher=Superior Alumni |access-date=9 August 2020 |page=27 |date=2014–15 |location=Superior, U.S.A.}}

Gunawardena is deputy leader and deputy secretary of the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna.{{cite news |title=MEP Moneragala District conference today |url=https://www.dailynews.lk/2020/02/11/political/211035/mep-moneragala-district-conference-today |access-date=9 August 2020 |work=Daily News |date=11 February 2020 |location=Colombo, Sri Lanka}}{{cite news |title=Need mixed electoral system with single, proportional representation – People's United Front |url=https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2021/09/06/need-mixed-electoral-system-with-single-proportional-representation-peoples-united-front/ |access-date=8 September 2021 |work=LankaWeb |date=6 September 2021 |location=Colombo, Sri Lanka}} Following the 2020 parliamentary election he was appointed to the Parliament of Sri Lanka as a National List MP representing the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna which is in alliance with Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance.{{cite magazine |title=Part I : Section (I) — General - Government Notifications - Parliamentary Elections - 2020 - Declaration under Article 99A of the Constitution |magazine=The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary |date=10 August 2020 |issue=2188/2 |page=2A |url=http://www.documents.gov.lk/files/egz/2020/8/2188-02_E.pdf |access-date=11 August 2020 |location=Colombo, Sri Lanka}}{{cite news |title=SLPP National List goes to EC |url=http://www.ft.lk/front-page/SLPP-National-List-goes-to-EC/44-704302 |access-date=9 August 2020 |work=Daily FT |date=8 August 2020 |location=Colombo, Sri Lanka}}{{cite news |title=SLPP releases National list |url=http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2020/08/07/news/slpp-releases-national-list |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808003458/http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2020/08/07/news/slpp-releases-national-list |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 August 2020 |access-date=9 August 2020 |work=Sunday Observer |date=7 August 2020 |location=Colombo, Sri Lanka}}

Gunawardena is married to former UPFA Western province councillor Samanmali Sakalasuriya.{{Cite web |title=Yadamini and Samanmali wedding |url=https://english.gossiplankanews.com/2016/07/yadamini-and-samanmali-wedding.html |access-date=2022-08-05 |website=Gossip Lanka News [English] |date=15 July 2016 |language=en}}