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His Excellency Sri Lankabhimanya
Ranasinghe Premadasa
රණසිංහ ප්රේමදාස ரணசிங்க பிரேமதாசா
Premadasa in 1992
3rd President of Sri Lanka
In office 2 January 1989 – 1 May 1993
Prime Minister
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
Preceded by
Junius Richard Jayewardene
Succeeded by
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
8th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
In office 6 February 1978 – 2 January 1989
President
Junius Richard Jayewardene
Preceded by
Junius Richard Jayewardene
Succeeded by
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
Member of Parliament for Colombo Central
In office 22 March 1965 – 2 January 1989
Preceded by
Razik Fareed
Succeeded by
constituency abolished
In office 19 March 1960 – 20 July 1960
Preceded by
M. S. Themis
Succeeded by
Razik Fareed
Personal details
Born
(1924-06-23)23 June 1924 Colombo, British Ceylon (now in Sri Lanka)
Died
1 May 1993(1993-05-01) (aged 68) Colombo, Sri Lanka
Manner of death
Assassination
Political party
United National Party
Spouse
Hema Wickrematunge
(m. 1964)
Children
Sajith, Dulanjali
Residence
Sucharitha
Alma mater
St Joseph's College, Colombo
Signature
Sri Lankabhimanya Ranasinghe Premadasa (Sinhala: රණසිංහ ප්රේමදාසRaṇasiṃha Premadāsa; Tamil: ரணசிங்க பிரேமதாசாRaṇaciṅka Pirēmatācā; 23 June 1924 – 1 May 1993)[1] was the third President of Sri Lanka from 2 January 1989 until his assassination in 1993.[2] He also served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 6 February 1978 to 2 January 1989.[3] This makes Premadasa the longest-serving uninterrupted Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, having served in the post for nearly 11 years. He was the first person to be conferred with Sri Lanka's highest civilian award, the Sri Lankabhimanya in 1986 by President J. R. Jayewardene.[4]
^"Ranasinghe Premadasa DOB". priu.gov.lk. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
^"Former Presidents – Presidential Secretariat of Sri Lanka". Retrieved 10 November 2020.
^"Parliament of Sri Lanka – Prime Ministers". Parliament of Sri Lanka. 27 August 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
^"National Honours – Presidential Secretariat of Sri Lanka". Retrieved 10 November 2020.
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