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Daya Sepali Senadheera

Sri Lankan politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ73612759 ↗
Source-derived summary

Daya Sepali Senadheera (?- 1988) was a Sri Lankan politician.

She was nominated by the United National Party, to fill the seat of Karandeniya, following the death of her husband, Bandulahewa in January 1982. Officially taking office on 26 March 1982. Senadheera was assassinated at her home in 1988 by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) during the second JVP insurrection.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Daya Sepali Senadheera” as sri Lankan politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Daya, Sepali and Senadheera.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1915. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Daya, Sepali and Senadheera providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Daya Sepali Senadheera”, the useful work is to connect “sri Lankan politician” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q73612759. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Daya Sepali Senadheera” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.