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Professor Maithree Wickremesinghe (Sinhala: මෛත්රී වික්රමසිංහ; born 11 August 1964) is the former First Lady of Sri Lanka as the wife of President Ranil Wickremesinghe. She is a Sri Lankan academic, writer, and professor of English at the University of Kelaniya. [1] She specialises in gender and women's ...
Some media reported that President Maithripala Sirisena also urged Ranil Wickremesinghe Rajapaksa to resign from his position. [ 125 ] [ 126 ] [ 127 ] On the evening of 26 October 2018, President Maithripala Sirisena appointed Mahinda Rajapaksa as prime minister after the United People's Freedom Alliance withdrew from the unity government.
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.
This is a list of presidential international trips made by Ranil Wickremesinghe, who served as the 9th President of Sri Lanka from 21 July 2022 to 23 September 2024. Wickremesinghe, then Prime Minister, meets with Narendra Modi in New Delhi, October 2018.
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Minister of Agriculture, Land, Livestock, Irrigation, Fisheries and Aquatic Resources; In office 24 September 2024 – 18 November 2024: President: Himself: Prime Minister: Harini Amarasuriya: Preceded by: Mahinda Amaraweera: Succeeded by: K. D. Lalkantha: In office 10 April 2004 [a] – 24 June 2005: President: Chandrika ...
He married Nalini Wickremesinghe (née Wijewardena) daughter of D. R. Wijewardena with whom he had five children they are Shan, Ranil, Niraj, Channa and Kshanika. [4] One of Wickremesinghe's brothers was the former Bishop of Kurunegala, Lakshman Wickremasinghe.
Harini Nireka Amarasuriya [j] (born 6 March 1970) is a Sri Lankan sociologist, academic, activist, and politician serving as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka since 2024.. Having spent a decade as an academic at the Open University of Sri Lanka, where she was engaged with the Federation of University Teachers' Association in trade union action; Amarasuriya was nominated by the National People's ...
This is a list of prime ministerial trips made by Ranil Wickremesinghe, who served as the 10th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 9 January 2015 to 21 November 2019. In addition, Wickremesinghe was prime minister from 1993 to 1994, 2001 to 2004 and for a few months in 2022.