Posted on April 2nd, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
This essay looks at two important
‘results’ or ‘consequences’ or whatever, of the 1956 General election. They are
firstly, the emergence of the SLFP. Secondly, the rise of Sirimavo Bandaranaike
as the world’s first woman Prime Minister.
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Bandaranaike formed the SLFP for two reasons, said Wiswa Warnapala. Firstly, as a democratic alternative to UNP and Marxist parties. Secondly, to provide a means of political
expression for Sinhalese and Buddhist vested interests. SLFP stood for Sinhala culture
and Buddhism at the time when no other political party was prepared to articulate these issues.