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Ratnasiri Wickremanayake appointed Prime Minister
 [13 October 2000]

Ratnasiri Wickremanayake took oaths today as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka at Temple Trees at 3.30 pm today before President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.

 

Wickremanayake entered politics in 1960 winning the Horana seat in the March General Election as a member of the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP).

Later in 1970, he was appointed Deputy Minister, Justice and went on to be the General secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) in 1977.

In the 1994 General Election he won the Kalutara District seat and attained the post of Home Affairs Minister and Speaker of the House in President Chandrika’s Cabinet.

 

 

 


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