Dinesh Weerakkody a well known business personality will release his sixth book titled ‘Ranil Wickremesinghe- a political biography’ on Wednesday, April 4 at 5.30 p.m. at the BMICH. President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Speaker, Karu Jayasuriya will grace the occasion.
A compelling and eloquent speaker and award-winning author Dr. Shashi Tharoor, a former UN Under Secretary-General, India’s nominee for the UN top job and a former Indian Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State for External Affairs, currently the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs will deliver the keynote address on ‘Leadership Challenges in South Asia.’
Ranil Wickremesinghe, MP born March 24, 1949 has been the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka four times, equalling Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake’s record.
He is the longest serving Leader of the United National Party, since 1994, and an elected Member of Parliament for Colombo District since 1977.
The author says “Wickremesinghe unlike many of his contemporaries, and those who have followed, has believed strongly enough in the strength of the local education system to go to the University of Colombo for his degree rather than to a foreign university”.The book talks of Ranil’s ancestry and his rise, his vision for a new Sri Lanka, the policy options available and that there is a big difference between connecting with voters and delivery.
The author further says the world is like a chessboard and Sri Lanka needs to manage the networks strategically for our own economic benefit.
The book is dedicated to the late Ven. Sobitha Thera and his generation of locally rooted social and intellectual leaders who have shared a common set of universal values.
The profits of the sale will be in and of the National Kidney Foundation.