Anura Bandaranaike
Anura Priyadarshi Solomon Dias Bandaranaike (born February 15, 1949 in Colombo ; † March 16, 2008 ibid) was a Sri Lankan politician of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the United National Party (UNP), which was held between 2000 and 2001 Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and Foreign Minister from August to November 2005.
Life
Bandaranaike was born to SWRD Bandaranaike and his wife Sirimavo Bandaranaike , both Prime Ministers in Sri Lanka . His sister was later President Chandrika Kumaratunga . When Bandaranaike was ten years old, his father died. After attending the Royal College in Colombo, he graduated from the University of London . In 1973 he joined the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) as a member and became the chief organizer of their youth organization. In 1975 he took part in a visit to the USA as part of the International Visitor Program (IVP) organized by the US State Department .
In 1977 Bandaranaike was elected member of the Sri Lankan parliament for the first time for the SLFP and initially represented the constituency of Nuwara-eliya Maskeliya before he represented the constituency of Dompe in the member of parliament in 1983 for the SLFP . On November 8, 1983 he replaced Appapillai Amirthalingam as opposition leader and held this position until December 20, 1988, whereupon his mother Sirimavo Bandaranaike took over on December 9, 1989. In 1993 he joined the United National Party (UNP) as a member. In the government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe , he was Minister for Higher Education between 1993 and 1994. After the parliamentary elections on October 10, 2000 , he was succeeded Kiri Banda Ratnayake Speaker of Parliament and held this position until shortly before the early general election on December 5, 2001 , after which Joseph Michael Perera was the new Speaker of Parliament on October 10, 2001. He had previously left the UNP and instead rejoined the SFLP as a member.
After the SLFP, under the chairmanship of his sister Chandrika Kumaratung at the parliamentary election on April 2, 2004, emerged victorious and with Mahinda Rajapaksa was the prime minister, he became minister for industry, tourism and investment promotion. On August 22, 2005, he took over the post of foreign minister as the successor to the shot Lakshman Kadirgamar and continued to hold the post of tourism minister at the same time. After Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected president in the presidential election on November 17, 2005 and Ratnasiri Wickremanayake took office as prime minister on November 21, 2005, Bandaranaike was replaced as foreign minister by Mangala Samaraweera , but continued to hold the office of tourism minister. As part of a further reshuffle of Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake's government, he lost the office of Minister of Tourism in January 2007 and instead took on the less important post of Minister of National Heritage. Already in February 2007 he was dismissed from the government as a supposed opponent of President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the course of a new government reshuffle and said on his dismissal that he was happy to have left the "Carnival of the Clowns". Two weeks later, however, he was reappointed Minister of National Heritage in the government after the differences between himself and the President were resolved. In December 2007, he finally resigned from his ministerial office and left the government for good.
Anura Bandaranaike died on March 16, 2008 after a brief illness in Colombo.
Web links
- Entry on the homepage of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
- Entry in rulers.org
- SRI LANKA: BIOGRAPHIC DATA ON NEW CABINET MINISTERS (April 15, 2004)
- tamilpress.de
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bandaranaike, Anura |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bandaranaike, Anura Priyadarshi Solomon Dias (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sri Lankan politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Colombo |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 2008 |
| Place of death | Colombo |