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Ranil Wickremesinghe (born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician serving as the ninth and current President of Sri Lanka. He also holds several ministerial roles, including Minister of Finance, Minister of Defence, Minister of Technology and Minister of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment.
Age: 73 Years. Some Lesser Known Facts About Ranil Wickremesinghe. Ranil Wickremesinghe is a Sri Lankan lawyer, United National Party’s (UNP) member of the parliament, and the 9th President of Sri Lanka. He is known to have held the position of Prime Minister six times.
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Political Beginnings. Born in 1949 after Sri Lanka gained independence from the British, Ranil Wickremesinghe is truly a leader of the new independent era. A lawyer by profession, he was elected to Parliament in 1977 (aged 28), having worked in the Youth League of the UNP from his university days.
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Ranil Wickremesinghe was born on Thursday, 24 March 1949 (age 73 years; as of 2022) in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Ranil completed his primary schooling at Royal Preparatory School and secondary schooling at Royal College, Colombo. After completing his schooling, he pursued LLB at the University of Ceylon (now the University of Colombo), and he graduated w...
Lawyer
Ranil Wickremesinghe, after earning a law degree in 1972, worked as an apprentice under the renowned Sri Lankan lawyer H. W. Jayewardene. In 1973, after completing his apprenticeship, Ranil Wickremesinghe began working as a lawyer in the Supreme Court.
Politics
Ranil Wickremesinghe’s career in politics began in the early 1970s when he joined the Youth League of the United National Party (UNP). In 1975, progressing through the ranks of the party, Ranil Wickremesinghe was appointed as the chief organizer during the Kelaniya by-elections in Sri Lanka. In 1977, during the Sri Lankan national elections, he was appointed as the chief organizer of the party in the Biyagama electorate from where he contested elections. In 1977, at the age of 28, Ranil Wickr...
Accused of playing a role in the Batalanda massacre
From 1987 to 1989, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) started an armed communist movement in Sri Lanka in which the members of the JVP began attacking civil and military targets. In 1987, a resolution was passed by the UNP-led government, which allowed for a counter-insurgency program to be started by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces (SLAF) to curb the armed movement. In 1996, Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was a minister of industries in 1988, was accused by the People’s Alliance (PA) of being the politi...
Accused of being a dictator
In 2010, Ranil Wickremesinghe was accused by several senior party leaders of following a dictatorial pattern in the party. A senior UNP leader and former MP Udugama Sri Buddharakkitha Thero said that the actions of Ranil Wickremesinghe were no less than the actions of a dictator. He also accused the party president of being undemocratic as he does not listens to what other members of the party have to say. Former MP Mahinda Wijesekara also accused Ranil of dictatorship and said that the party...
Central Bank bond scam
In 2015, while serving as the Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe was brought under the lens of a Presidential commission that was investigating a fraud in which bonds were sold by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) to the highest bidder at a much higher interest rate because of which the Government of Sri Lanka incurred loses worth $10.6 million. The governor of the CBSL was accused of selling the bonds to his son-in-law’s company named Perpetual Treasuries Limited. In 2017, Ranil was sum...
As of July 2022, his salary as the President of Sri Lanka, his salary was 90,000 Sri Lankan Rupees + other allowances. LankaNewsWeb
In 2003, an article on Ranil Wickremesinghe was published in Time Magazine.An image of the article published in Time Magazine
Ranil Wickremesinghe was born on 24 March 1949 and is a lawyer by profession. He has served as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka six times and became the 9th President of the country in July 2022.
Jul 21, 2022 · Wickremesinghe was born on March 24, 1949, into an influential political family. His uncle, Junius Richard Jayewardene, is a former president and prime minister.
Jul 20, 2022 · Ranil Wickremesinghe has been promoted from being Sri Lanka's prime minister to its new president within a matter of days. He now has the job he has long coveted - but the challenges he faces...
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Jul 20, 2022 · Sri Lankan MPs have elected prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country's new president, despite his unpopularity with the public. Mr Wickremesinghe faces the task of leading the...
