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    Anura Bandaranaike (15 February 1949 – 16 March 2008) was a Sri Lankan politician, who served as Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka (2000-2001) and...
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    to 2005, during which Bandaranaike's widow served as prime minister from 1994 to 2000 and Bandaranaike's son Anura Bandaranaike served as Speaker of the...
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    Anura Kumara Dissanayake (born 24 November 1968), commonly referred to by his initials AKD, is a Sri Lankan politician who has been the tenth and current...
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    Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike (Sinhala: සිරිමා රත්වත්තේ ඩයස් බණ්ඩාරනායක; Tamil: சிறிமா ரத்வத்தே டயஸ் பண்டாரநாயக்கே; 17 April 1916 – 10 October 2000)...
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    D. Bandaranaike and Sirimavo Bandaranaike and sister of former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and former Speaker of Parliament Anura Bandaranaike...
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  • plants in the daisy family Anura is a common given name in Sri Lanka Anura Bandaranaike (1949–2008), Sri Lankan politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake (born...
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    politician Yashodara Sirimavo Kumarathunga Walker Vimukthi Kumaratunga Anura Bandaranaike (1949–2008); Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, Government Minister...
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    where he was a classmate and friend of Anura Bandaranaike, son of then Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike; and Dinesh Gunawardena, son of socialist...
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    the party suffered from internal conflicts, with Sirimavo's son Anura Bandaranaike, who led the party in parliament after her expulsion, shifting the...
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  • Bandaranaike or Bandaranayake (Sinhala: බණ්ඩාරනායක, romanized: Baṇḍāranāyaka) is a Sinhalese surname. Anura Bandaranaike (1949–2008), Sri Lankan politician...
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    Horagolla Walauwa (category Bandaranaike family)
    to the Anura Bandaranaike Foundation. Bandaranaike family On the road to Kandy "Birth Anniversary of late Prime Minister Mr. S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike". Archived...
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    the family. Her elder sister Sunethra Bandaranaike became a socialite and her younger brother Anura Bandaranaike joined active politics, going on to become...
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    prison, Sirisena joined All Ceylon SLFP Youth Organization led by Anura Bandaranaike and joined politics at the national level. After serving at a number...
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    died in November 1967. Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) leader Sirimavo Bandaranaike offered his father's post of SLFP party organiser for the Beliatta electorate...
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    S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, the fourth Prime Minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), was assassinated by the Buddhist priest Talduwe Somarama Thero on September...
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  • Jayewardene/Ranasinghe Premadasa Leader of the Opposition: A. Amirthalingam/Anura Bandaranaike Central Province (24) George Abeyagoonasekera S. S. Abeysundara Alick...
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    February 2007, he was sacked from the cabinet together with ministers Anura Bandaranaike and Sripathi Sooriyarachchi after falling out with the then president...
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  • minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Prime minister Sirimawo Bandaranayake President Chandrika Kumaratunga Speaker Anura Bandaranaike Sri Sanghabodhi Central...
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    Union based on that of the Oxford Union with assistance of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike who had recently returned to Ceylon. At the Ceylon Law College he won...
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    1987. Peiris was a close confidant of the former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, who appointed him as a national list member of the parliament...
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    Chandrika Bandaranaike, with whom he had two children. Bandaranaike was the daughter of two former prime ministers, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike and Sirimavo...
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    Lanka In office 2004–2005 Preceded by Tyronne Fernando Succeeded by Anura Bandaranaike In office 1994–2001 Preceded by Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed Succeeded...
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    to 1959, 1960 to 1965, 1970 to 1977 and 1994 to 2000. Her brother Anura Bandaranaike served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka from 2000 to...
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    leader. After a long and divisive battle, the party chose her son, Anura. Anura Bandaranaike was soon thrust into the role of the keeper of his father's legacy...
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    Amarasinghe Sarath Kumara Gunaratna John Amaratunga Anura Bandaranaike Sarana Gunawardena Pandu Bandaranaike Jeyaraj Fernandopulle Duleep Wijesekera Edward...
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    Province Western Province National List (29) A. H. M. Azwer Anura Bandaranaike Sirimavo Bandaranaike K. N. Choksy Amara Badra Dissanayake Dinesh Dodamgoda Earl...
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    defeat in the presidential elections and the inauguration of his successor, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Gunawardena resigned from the position of prime minister...
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  • grandson, Anura Bandaranaike, became Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. List of political families in Sri Lanka Horagolla Walauwa Bandaranaike family...
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    against his former leader and incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe, and Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of National People’s Power. Premadasa came second...
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  • Councillor + Vijaya Kumaratunga (1945–1988), actor and politician Anura Bandaranaike (1949–2008); Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, Government Minister...
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