Ranasinghe premadasa biography of william

| by K.H.J.

Wijayadasa

( April 29, 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) President Premadasa was no ordinary leader. He was a self made, self educated, self disciplined and self motivated man.

Ranasinghe Premadasa, the ninth prime minister and second president of Sri Lanka, was born on June 23, , in Colombo.

Ranasinghe Premadasa, the ninth prime minister and second president of Sri Lanka, was born on June 23, , in Colombo.

– 1 May ) was the third President of Sri Lanka from 2 January until his assassination in

Ranasinghe Premadasa, born on 23 June in Colombo, emerged from humble beginnings to become one of the country's most influential political figures.

Ranasinghe Premadasa, born on 23 June served as Sri Lanka's Prime Minister from to and as President from to The.

Born and bred in Keselwatte, Sri Lanka's equivalent of the old Harlem, Premadasa knew well the bitter anger and despair of the marginalised.

Mentally and physically he was nothing but a computer operated human dynamo. He was a philosopher- politician, a thinker, a patriot and above all an extraordinary man. He devoted his full time and energy in the pursuit of an exemplary political career.

It is said that he spent every second and every minute of his life breathing politics, drinking politics and eating politics. President Premadasa was indeed an epoch maker (yuga purushaya).

Former Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa's () 30th death anniversary falls on May 1st.

Such epoch makers reach certain critical milestones in a short period of twenty to thirty years but their impact would last a couple of hundred years. Such impacts are quite often deep rooted, economically stable and environmentally sound and sustainable.

The fruits of labour of such great men are oft