Sri Lanka Freedom Party
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The Sri Lanka Freedom Party is a centre-left political party in Sri Lanka. Founded by S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike in 1951, the party was one of Sri Lanka's two main parties from the 1950s to the 2010s, s
Chandrika Kumaratunga with PM Modi
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi with the Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa, at Hyderabad House, in New Delhi on February 08, 2020
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Chandrika Kumaratunga
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Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, commonly referred to by her initials CBK, is a Sri Lankan stateswoman who served as the fifth president of Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2005. She is the longest-serving p
Sri Lanka Freedom Party
…led the party in parliament after her expulsion, shifting the traditionally socialist party to the right, while her daughter and future party leader Chandrika Kumaratunga led a breakaway party, the Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya, in response to her brother's shift. In 1989, Sirimavo Bandaranaike was reelected to the parliament…
Kumaratunga (center) meeting with former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (right)
Participating in a protest in support of the Nineteenth Amendment in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 2015