If Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is to be a biographee, his biography should aptly be a political one for numerous reasons. He has held his current office four times in Sri Lankan political history, for one. He has been the longest-serving leader of the United National Party, the country’s oldest political party, since 1994. He has also been in Parliament since 1977. Sri Lanka’s contemporary political history cannot exist without Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Ranil Wickremesinghe - A Political Biography, authored by Dinesh Weerakkody, a business personality, was launched at the BMICH on April 4, under the patronage of President Maithripala Sirisena. Key dignitaries such as clergy and parliamentarians graced the occasion. Dr Sashi Tharoor, an eminent Indian diplomat, delivered the keynote speech on Sri Lanka’s role of the balancing act between India and China.
Pictures by Malan Karunaratne
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