Maithripala sirisena biography of albert

President of Sri Lanka from 2015 to 2019

Maithripala Yapa Sirisena (Sinhala: පල්ලෙවත්‍ත ගමරාළලාගේ මෛත්‍රීපාල යාපා සිරිසේන; Tamil: பல்லேவத்த கமராளலாகே மைத்திரிபால யாப்பா சிறிசேன; born 3 September 1951) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the seventh president of Sri Lanka from 9 January 2015 to 18 November 2019. Sirisena is Sri Lanka's first president from the North Central Province of the country and does not belong to the traditional Sri Lankan political elite. He entered as a member of parliament from Polonnaruwa back in 2020 and ended his tenure in 2024.

Sirisena joined mainstream politics in 1989 as a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and has held several ministries since 1994. He was the general-secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and was Minister of Health until November 2014 when he announced his candidacy in the 2015 presidential election as the opposition coalition's "common candidate", thus leading to him running against party leader and incumbent president Mahinda Rajapaksa. His victory in the election was generally viewed as unexpected, coming to office through the votes won from the alternative Sinhala-majority rural constituency and the Tamil and Muslim minority groups that were alienated by the Rajapaksa government on post-war reconciliation and growing sectarian violence. Maithripala Sirisena pledged to implement a 100-day reform program where he promised to rebalance the executive branch within 100 days of being elected, by reinforcing Sri Lanka's judiciary and parliament, to fight corruption and to investigate allegations of war crimes from 2009, repeal the controversial eighteenth amendment, re-instate the seventeenth amendment and appoint UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister. He later was re

Background

Maithripala Sirisena, born in 1951, is a politician in Sri Lanka. He had his formal education at Laksha Uyana School, and Topawawa Maha Vidyalaya. He completed a diploma in Agriculture at the School of Agriculture, Sri Lanka and a diploma in Political Science at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, Russia. He was elected to the parliament in 1989 as one of Sri Lanka Freedom Party’s candidates from Polonnaruwa District, and subsequently held several ministerial portfolios as a Minister until 2014. He served as the 7th Executive President of Sri Lanka from January 2015 to November 2019.

Sirisena was born in to a farming family. His father Pallewatte Gamaralalage Albert Sirisena was a World War II veteran. His mother, Yapa Appuhamilage Dona Nandawathi, was a school teacher. Two of his brothers received media spotlight in recent years; Dudley Sirisena, the Chairman of Araliya Group of Companies and P. G. Kumarasinghe, a Sri Lankan business executive and former Group Chairman of Sri Lanka Telecom. He is married to Jayanthi Pushpa Kumari and they have two daughters, Chathurika Sirisena, Dharani Sirisena, and a son, Daham Sirisena.

Political/ Government Positions held

• Member of the parliament - 1989 to 2014 and 2020 to present
• 7th Executive President in Sri Lanka - 2015 to 2019
• Cabinet Minister for Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine - 2010 to 2014
• Cabinet Minister for Agricultural Development and Agrarian Services Development – 2007 to 2010
• Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) – 2015 to present
• General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party - 2001 to 2014
• Minister for Mahaweli Development - 1997
• Deputy Minister for Irrigation - 1994

Tobacco Related Activities

Negative Involvements in relation to Tobacco Control

Maithri Sewana

In January 2016 Maithripala Sirisena ceremoniously opened Maithri Sewana,

Sri Lankan politician (born 1921)

Albert Kariyawasam (born 8 May 1921) was a Sri Lankan politician.

Haputhantri Gamage Albert Kariyawasam was born on 8 May 1921. He received his primary school education at Christ Church School, Niyagama and the government school at Gammaddegoda before attending Henry Olcott College, Kolonnawa and Udugampola Government Senior School.

Kariyawasam contested the 4th parliamentary election, held on 19 March 1960, as the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna candidate in the newly created electorate of Bentara-Elpitiya. He narrowly lost to the United National Party candidate, Richard Gregory Samaranayake, by 592 votes. He changed his political allegiances and joined the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, running as the party's nominee at the subsequent 5th parliamentary election, held on 20 July 1960. He was successful, defeating Samaranayake by 5,987 votes, securing the seat of Bentara-Elpitiya.

At the 6th parliamentary elections, held on 22 March 1965, Kariyawasam ran as the sitting member. He received 21,084 votes (47% of the total vote) and was defeated by Samaranayake, by 5,987 votes. In November 1965 the election result was ruled void, and at the following a parliamentary by-election, held on 24 October 1966, he regained the seat, defeating the United National Party candidate, Colin Wijesekera Samaranayaka (Samaranayake's brother), by 1,677 votes. He retained the seat at the 7th parliamentary elections, held on 27 May 1970, defeating Rupasena Karunatillake, from the United National Party. Following the election he was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries in the Second Sirimavo Bandaranaike cabinet.

At the 8th parliamentary election, held on 21 July 1977, he failed to retain his seat losing to Karunatillake by 11,854 votes.

His son,