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Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Anura Kumara Dissanayake was born on 24 November 1968 in the village of Dewahuwa, Matale District, Central Province, Sri Lanka. [16] [unreliable source?] [11] His father who was an agricultural worker who later joined the surveyor's department as an office aide [17] [18] and his mother was a housewife. He has one ...
The current First Lady of Sri Lanka is Mallika Dissanayaka, wife of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who has held the position since 23 September 2024. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] There have been no first gentlemen of Sri Lanka to date, since former President Chandrika Kumaratunga , the country's only female head of state, was a widow while in office.
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Dissanayake was elected to Parliament in 2000, and when the JVP entered an alliance with President Chandrika Kumaratunga, he briefly served as agriculture and irrigation minister. That alliance was formed to oppose a cease-fire agreement signed between then-Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels to resolve ...
Dissanayake, 55, who ran as head of the Marxist-leaning National People's Power coalition, defeated opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and 36 other candidates in Saturday's election. Dissanayake received 5,740,179 votes, followed by Premadasa with 4,530,902.
COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lankans elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as new president on Sunday, putting faith in his pledge to fight corruption and bolster a fragile economic recovery ...
A young Chandrika Bandaranaike with her mother, sister Sunethra, and brother Anura. Chandrika with Sri Lankan diplomat Tissa Wijeyeratne in Paris, early 1970s. Chandrika Bandaranaike was born on 29 June 1945, at Wentworth in Guildford Crescent, Colombo to Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike and Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike. [4]
COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka's leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake took office as president on Monday, promising change in the island nation long led by powerful political families which is ...