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| Saturday, 17 April 2004 |
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Former Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike's birth anniversary today Former Prime Minister the late Sirimavo Bandaranaike's 88th birth anniversary is on April 17, today. Mrs. Bandaranaike entered politics soon after the demise of her husband, Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike in 1960 and remained in the political arena for nearly 35 years. A Children's Hospital was established near the Peradeniya Hospital in her memory. Mrs. Bandaranaike, born on April 17, 1916 in the Ratwatte Walauwa of Balangoda turned out to be a people's leader by becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and the world's first woman Prime Minister. She was the mother of three children, President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Industrial Development, Tourism and Investment Promotion Minister Anura Bandaranaike and Sunethra Bandaranaike. SLFP Branch Organisations as well as several community organisations have organized a series of religious ceremonies in various parts of the island to commemorate her 88th birth anniversary. The annual alms giving in memory of former Prime Minister the late Sirimavo Bandaranaike and late Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Private Secretaries of the 1970 ULF Government will be held at the Grace Perera Elder's Home, Kalubowila, Dehiwala today at 5 p.m. Meanwhile, the Cabinet of Ministers of the newly formed Freedom Alliance Government will meet at the President's House, Kandy under the patronage of President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga today. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse was reported to have called on the President at the President's House Kandy yesterday. The Cabinet of Ministers accompanied by the President will offer an alms giving to the Maha Sangha of the Pradhana Kaaraka Sangha Sabha of the Malwatta and Asgiriya Chapters to bestow merits on late Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike. This alms giving will take place at the President's House, Kandy. The President and the Ministers will pay obeisance to the Sacred Tooth Relic, when the special public exposition of the Sacred Tooth Relic begins at 1.00 p.m. today. |
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