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Ranasinghe Premadasa
A long-time leader in the United National Party, Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924-1993) became the second president of Sri Lanka in 1988.
Ranasinghe Premadasa, the ninth prime minister and second president of Sri Lanka, was born on June 23, 1924, in Colombo. He came from a family of modest means. Politically a self-made man, he was the first "commoner" to be at the helm of affairs, breaking a tradition of the top leadership being in the hands of high caste landed aristocracy or those coming from affluent families.
Educated in a Christian missionary college in Colombo, Premadasa initially opted for a career as a journalist. He was a prolific writer in his mother tongue, Sinhala, including a translation of the autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru. Keenly interested in neighborhood welfare affairs since his youth, he became increasingly involved in municipal politics, which led to his election to the Colombo Municipal Council at the early age of 26. Five years later he became Colombo's deputy mayor. Premadasa took an active part in the freedom movement during the
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Ranasinghe Premadasa
President of Sri Lanka from 1989 to 1993
"Ranasinghe" redirects here. For people with the surname Ranasinghe, see Ranasinghe (name).
Sri LankabhimanyaRanasinghe Premadasa (Sinhala: රණසිංහ ප්රේමදාසRaṇasiṃha Premadāsa; Tamil: ரணசிங்க பிரேமதாசாRaṇaciṅka Pirēmatācā; 23 June 1924 – 1 May 1993)[1] was the third President of Sri Lanka from 2 January 1989 until his assassination in 1993.[2] He also served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 6 February 1978 to 2 January 1989.[3] This makes Premadasa the longest-serving uninterrupted Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, having served in the post for nearly 11 years. He was the first person to be conferred with Sri Lanka's highest civilian award, the Sri Lankabhimanya in 1986 by President J. R. Jayewardene.[4]
Early life
Ranasinghe Premadasa was born on 23 June 1924 at Dias Place, Colombo 11, to the family of Richard Ranasinghe (Ranasinghe Mudalali) of Kosgoda and Battuwita Jayasinghe Arachchige Ensina Hamine of Batuwita, Horana. Premadasa was the oldest of five c
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Assassination of Ranasinghe Premadasa
1993 murder of 3rd Sri Lankan president
Ranasinghe Premadasa, the 3rd President of Sri Lanka, was assassinated on 1 May 1993. Premadasa, along with 23 others, were killed in an explosion set off by an LTTEsuicide bomber during a May Day rally held in the country's capital of Colombo. The rally was organised by Premadasa's ruling political party, the United National Party.
The explosion took place at around 12:45 PM at the junction of Armour Street and Grandpass Road in Hulftsdorp, Colombo. President Premadasa was unofficially supervising the procession as it was heading from Sugathadasa Stadium to its end destination of Galle Face Green. The suicide bomber was later identified as Kulaveerasingam Veerakumar (alias 'Babu'), a close friend of the President's valet, E. M. P. Mohideen.[4] Veerakumar was working under direction from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a Tamilmilitant organization based in northeastern Sri Lanka which fought for an independent Tamil ethnostate known as Tamil Eelam. In addition to the 17 casualt
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