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    Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (Sinhala: චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක කුමාරතුංග; Tamil: சந்திரிகா பண்டாரநாயக்க குமாரதுங்க; born 29 June 1945), commonly referred...
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  • Sri Lanka, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, was wounded in a coordinated bomb blast that was attempting to take her life. Kumaratunga had been president...
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    முன்னணி) is a political alliance in Sri Lanka founded by president Chandrika Kumaratunga in 1994. The alliance was dissolved in favor of a new SLFP-led alliance...
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    release. Kumaratunga's cinema life would change once he entered politics with the Lanka Sama Samaja Party. In 1978, Kumaratunga married Chandrika Bandaranaike...
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    in the 1999 and 2005 presidential elections, but was defeated by Chandrika Kumaratunga and Mahinda Rajapaksa, respectively. On 9 January 2015, Wickremesinghe...
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    none of the winners represented the SLMP. On 20 February 1978, Kumaratunga married Chandrika Bandaranaike, with whom he had two children. Bandaranaike was...
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    party to the right, while her daughter and future party leader Chandrika Kumaratunga led a breakaway group, the Sri Lanka People's Party, in response...
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    from 1994 to 2000, governing under the presidency of her daughter Chandrika Kumaratunga. Born into a Sinhalese Kandyan aristocratic family, Bandaranaike...
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    October 1994 and electoral participation was 70.47%. Prime Minister Chandrika Kumaratunga of the governing People's Alliance was elected, receiving 62% of...
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    a political front led by Sri Lanka Freedom Party and headed by Chandrika Kumaratunga, Rajapaksa was appointed Minister of Labor. He held this post until...
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    1999 and electoral participation was 73.31%. Incumbent President Chandrika Kumaratunga of the governing People's Alliance was re-elected for a second term...
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    sister Chandrika Kumaratunga who had left the family party in 1984 to join the Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya formed by her husband Vijaya Kumaratunga. She...
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    no first gentlemen of Sri Lanka to date, since former President Chandrika Kumaratunga, the country's only female head of state, was a widow while in office...
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  • with former president of Sri Lanka and former leader of the SLFP Chandrika Kumaratunga, who, like Welgama, has been a vocal critic of former president...
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  • and administration reforms from 2000 to 2001 in the cabinets of Chandrika Kumaratunga. Pathirana was born on 24 February 1938 at Labuduwa, Galle. Having...
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  • close relative of former President Chandrika Kumaratunga and the nephew of actor and politician Vijaya Kumaratunga. He was born on 7 November 1958 in...
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    elections the UNP was defeated and the People's Alliance, headed by Chandrika Kumaratunga, came to power on a peace platform. During the Presidential election...
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    Machine. BBC News. 2005-11-22. Retrieved 2008-10-04. "Hon Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (1994–2005)" Archived 3 June 2004 at the Wayback Machine ...
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    in the country as well. NFH is located in Millennium Drive, off Chandrika Kumaratunga Mawatha, Malabe 10115. NFH is a brainchild of its Chairman Dr.Fernando...
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  • former president Jayawardana. His rule coincided with the rise of Chandrika Kumaratunga within the ranks of the SLFP. He did not believe that peace could...
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    of Irrigation in the new PA government led by Chandrika Kumaratunga in 1994. In 1997 President Kumaratunga promoted him to the Cabinet, appointing him Minister...
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  • 2000 in an assassination many suspect to be ordered by President Chandrika Kumaratunga. Ponnambalam was born on 12 August 1938. He was the son of G. G...
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  • Sri Lanka that was formed by Chandrika Kumaratunga when she broke away from Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya. In 1993 Kumaratunga returned to SLFP; however,...
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  • Indian newspaper Chandrika (Kannada actress), Indian actress Chandrika Balan (Chandramathi), Indian writer Chandrika Kumaratunga, former Sri Lankan...
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    the Alliance was able to form a government. On 6 April, President Chandrika Kumaratunga appointed former Minister of Labour Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister...
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    nationalism, and wanted a return to freedom, peace, and democracy. Chandrika Kumaratunga, leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, formed a coalition with...
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    The Kumaratunga cabinet was the central government of Sri Lanka led by President Chandrika Kumaratunga between 1994 and 2005. It was formed in November...
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  • Wayback Machine "BBC Profile: Chandrika Kumaratunga". BBC News. 26 August 2005. "Chandrika". Skard, Torild "Chandrika Kumaratunga" in Women of Power – half...
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  • museum was inaugurated on 22 November 2015 by Her Excellency Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the fifth President of Sri Lanka. Most of the pieces displayed...
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    2 years, 57 days United National Party Kumaratunga Chandrika Kumaratunga Minister of Education 15 Chandrika Kumaratunga චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක (born 1945) (President)...
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