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2 days ago · Bandaranaike campaigned in S.W.R.D.'s Attanagalla constituency during the 1952 parliamentary election, while he travelled around the country to garner support. Though the Freedom Party won only nine seats during that election, S.W.R.D. was elected to Parliament and became Leader of the Opposition.
Apr 13, 2024 · She left office in 1965 but returned to serve two more terms (1970–77, 1994–2000) as prime minister. The family she founded with her husband, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, rose to great prominence in Sri Lankan politics. Born into a wealthy family, she married the politician S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike in 1940 and began to interest herself in social ...
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Apr 27, 2024 · Prime Minister from 1956–59, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was an Oxford-educated member of the Colombo Sinhala elite who in 1951 formed the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. The platform on which Bandaranaike ran was language, promising Sinhala-speakers the opportunities that had so far been denied to those who didn’t have access to English.
Apr 28, 2024 · On September 25, 1959, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, faced a tragic assassination by a Buddhist monk, marking a dark day in Ceylon's history. Dive deeper into the life and political career of Bandaranaike whose untimely demise triggered significant changes in Ceylon's political landscape.
May 2, 2024 · It’s been close to seven and a half decades since the SLFP was founded by S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. In a speech he made at the party’s inaugural session on 2 September 1951, Bandaranaike said the day not only marked the birth of a new political party but “it also ushers, in many ways, a new political era.” His words were prophetic.
Apr 20, 2024 · Bandaranaike flair for his aesthetic expressions filled with classical references had its roots in the 19th century Oxford don Walter Pater, to whom SWRD owed his debt for cultivating the idea of ...
Apr 24, 2024 · Bandaranaike's tabling of the IOZP at the UN in 1971 could not be more significant for Ceylon's entry onto the international stage. It was the first time a Sri Lankan Prime Minister had addressed the UN since S.W.R.D Bandaranaike had participated in the 1956 Suez-Hungary debate.
