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Posted on April 13th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
S.W.R.D Bandaranaike was Prime Minister for a very short time, 1956- 1959. Throughout
this period, he was soundly ridiculed. Praise for Bandaranaike came
several decades later when the MEP period came into historical review and it
was found that changes initiated had become entrenched, also that they were
good.
Then they started to praise Bandaranaike as a person.
Guruge (1999) said he admired SWRD’s extraordinary intellectual and oratorical
skills. Bradman Weerakoon (2004) said SWRD was ‘uncommon man
in the age of the common man’ HSS Nissanka (1976) reported that KPS Menon said Bandaranaike was
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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.
SRI LANKA FREEDOM PARTY
SWRD
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.
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