20% of the people are in the belly fire and the majority of Sri Lankans who are suffering a lot today is just another day. There are few vehicles or people in the cities that were crowded a few months ago. Many ownerless vehicles near the fuel shed were showered with dust.
While all this was happening, a leader who was rejected by the people was legally sworn in as the 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka. The newly appointed leaders are welcomed in town by town by cooking cakes and milk and lighting flags. But today there are no followers for him. Even though people are blaming him, people have high hopes for him.
According to the Election of the President (Special Provisions) Act No. 2 of 1981, Acting President and Prime Minister Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe was elected yesterday (20) by majority vote of the members of Parliament.
Born on March 24, 1949 in Kurunduwatta, Colombo, Mr. Ranil Shrian Wickramasinghe is a former student of the Royal College of Colombo. His father is Edmund Wickremasinghe and mother is Nalini Wickremasinghe. In 1972, he qualified as an advocate from Ceylon Law College and became a lawyer.
Born into a wealthy political family, he graduated from the University of Ceylon and qualified as an advocate from the Ceylon College of Law in 1972. Entering active politics with the United National Party in the mid-1970s, he was elected to Parliament for the first time from the Biyagama Constituency. 1977 parliamentary election and his uncle and President JR Jayawardena appointed him as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was then appointed as the Minister of Youth Affairs and Employment, becoming the youngest Cabinet Minister in Sri Lanka.
In 1989, President Ranasinghe Premadasa appointed Mr. Wickramasinghe as the Minister of Industry, Science and Technology and the Leader of the House. After the assassination of Premadasa in 1993, he succeeded Mr. DB Wijetunga as the Prime Minister and Mr. Wijetunga became the President. He became the leader of the opposition in November 1994 when Mr. Gamini Dissanayake was killed during the campaigning of the 1994 presidential election. Wickramasinghe was the UNP candidate in the 1999 and 2005 presidential elections but was defeated by Chandrika Kumaratunga.
He started his career as a lawyer and started his political career by contesting the 1977 general election from Biyagama constituency and was elected as a Member of Parliament for the first time. Mr. J. R. Jayawardena was the youngest minister in the government cabinet.
J. R. Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe played a great role in the governments of Presidents Jayawardene and Ranasinghe Premadasa as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, as the Minister of Education, as the Minister of Youth Affairs and Defense and as the Minister of Industry.
He took the lead in establishing the Maharagama National Institute of Education and the Education Commission, brought the Industrial Development Act, gave five-year tax concessions to factories, and appointed the Industrial Commission.
Mr. Wickramasinghe, who also served as the Leader of the Parliament from March 06, 1989 to May 07, 1993, served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2015.
He was first elected as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on May 7, 1993 and held that position until August 19, 1994.
Mr. Wickramasinghe was the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka for the second time from December 9, 2001 to April 2, 2004, for the third time from January 9, 2015 to August 21, 2015, for the fourth time from August 24, 2015 to October 26, 2018, and for the fifth time from December 16, 2018 to November 21, 2019. Has been done.
After that, after the resignation of the former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on the 9th of May, Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe returned to the position of Prime Minister on the 12th of the same month and was working in that position, and after the resignation of the President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, he has been the Acting Prime Minister since last (14) according to the Constitution. He also became the president.
At a time when the country was destabilizing in the face of a huge economic crisis, last May Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe became the Prime Minister again at the invitation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The peculiarity of that appointment is that no politician in Sri Lanka came forward to take over the post of Prime Minister at that time. As no one came forward, he was rejected by the people and accepted the post of Prime Minister.
When he became the Prime Minister, no member of his party was elected to the Parliament. He is the prime minister alone. He and his leadership Daru Party could not win a single seat in the general election. But he was elected as president by 134 MPs who were against him. It is a new story going down in world history that he chose the same people as the president who were responsible for his party’s utter defeat.
Today (21) he was sworn in as the 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka in the Parliament of Sri Lanka. Although he was a defeated leader, many people had faith in him. His opponents also say that “only he can”. But the youth of two warring political groups continue to reject him. But the real “Non-Party Strugglers” who are engaged in the struggle have not yet issued an announcement about this.
However, being the first members of the struggle, the youth groups representing those political parties made a massive effort to end Rajapaksa’s rule. With the escape of Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa on July 9, many people who were in the struggle left the struggle.
Accordingly, Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe is taking over the country at a time when it is facing a serious political, social and economic crisis.
