SWRD commemoration
COLOMBO: Mani Shanker Aiyar, India's Union Cabinet Minister of
Panchayati Raj, Youth Affairs and Sports, a frontliner in the ruling
Congress Party, will be the guest speaker at the Bandaranaike
commemoration meeting on September 26 at 5 p.m. at the BMICH to mark the
46th death anniversary of Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike.
Aiyar was a protege of the late Indira Gandhi and a principal Advisor
to the then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. He is a personal friend
of Minister of Tourism Anura Bandaranaike.
He has been invited to deliver this lecture by President Mahinda
Rajapaksa.
Aiyar will speak on 'South Asian politics, especially southern Asia'.
He is a prolific writer and a brilliant orator and a rising star in
the political firmament of India's politics. |