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He felt the pulse of the common man

President R. PREMADASA

Today (June 23) is the 100th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister and President Ranasinghe Premadasa. He was born on June 23, 1924 at Dias Place in the area of Keselwatte in Colombo Central.

He had his primary education at Harvard Methodist Girls’ School and St. Lorenz’s College. His secondary education was at St. Joseph’s College, Colombo where he studied up to his Cambridge senior exam. He also received Buddhist schooling at Hewavitarana Daham Pasala in Pitakotuwa / Purakkottai.

It is indeed a pleasure for me to write few lines on the 100th birthday of a politician who stayed with the people and his party through thick and thin. I had the good fortune of meeting the former President long before he had reached the exalted position.

President Premadasa was a long-time friend of my father E.P. De. Silva, who was a well-informed political reporter before he became the Editor of

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Chandrika Kumaratunga

President of Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2005

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (Sinhala: චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක කුමාරතුංග; Tamil: சந்திரிகா பண்டாரநாயக்க குமாரதுங்க; born 29 June 1945), commonly referred to by her initials CBK, is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the fifth President of Sri Lanka from 12 November 1994 to 19 November 2005. Prior to her presidency, she was the Prime Minister from August to November 1994 and the chief minister of the Western Province from 1993 to 1994. Kumaratunga fryst vatten the country's first and only female president to date and the second female prime minister. She led the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) from 1994 to 2005.^[1][2][3]

She is the longest-serving president in Sri Lankan history. She was elected in 1994, defeating UNP candidate Srima Dissanayake in the largest landslide victory in Sri Lankan history, securing 62% of the votes. Kumaratunga was reelected in 1999, defeating UNP candidate a

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