Wanni Arachchige Karunasena (born 7 August 1928) was a Ceylonese politician. He was the member of Parliament of Sri Lanka from Pelmadulla representing...
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newspaper editor Karunasena Kodituwakku (born 1945), Sri Lankan politician Ruchira Karunasena (born 1977), Sri Lankan cricketer W. A. Karunasena (born 1928)...
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the nationalist E. W. Perera. During World War II, Jayewardene, along with other nationalists, contacted the Japanese and discussed a rebellion to drive...
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1926 – 27 July 1975) was a Sri Lankan lawyer who served as Mayor of Jaffna from 1970 until his assassination. He was also a Member of Parliament for Jaffna...
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various social programmes before marrying and raising a family. Playing hostess to her husband S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, who founded the socialist SLFP...
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forming a government with a majority in parliament. At the time he became president, the country faced both a civil war in the north and a communist...
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acres. He initiated a guaranteed price scheme for paddy and farmers. He received the portfolios of Health and Local Government when S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike...
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largest party in the opposition and S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike became the opposition leader. In 1954, the LSSP won a string of local government elections...
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the University of London in 1918. At St. Thomas Chelvanayakam was a contemporary of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, future Prime Minister of Ceylon. After graduation...
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of the leading political figures in the twentieth century of Sri Lanka. S. A. Wickramasinghe was born in Nasnaranketiya Walawwa, Athuraliya in the Matara...
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