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Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike [alt 1] (8 January 1899 – 26 September 1959), also known as "The Silver Bell of Asia" (ආසියාවේ රිදී සීනුව), was a Ceylonese statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka ), serving from 1956 until his assassination.
S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike was a statesman and prime minister of Ceylon (1956–59), whose election marked a significant change in the political history of modern Ceylon. Educated at the University of Oxford, he was called to the bar in 1925.
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Bandaranaike Samadhi (where S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was entombed) at Horagolla, Sri Lanka. Following the inquiry proceedings, Bandaranaike's body was taken to the Parliament building at Galle Face to lie in state for two days. Thousands came, day and night, to pay their respects.
S W R D Bandaranaike was the fourth Prime Minister of Sri Lanka serving from April 1956, when his party, the Sri Lanka, Freedom Party, won a landslide victory at the general election, until his death at the hands of an assassin in September 1959.
Sep 25, 2021 · S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. It was on the morning of 25 September 1959, a Buddhist monk who had come to the Prime Minister’s residence at Rosemead Place, Colombo 7 on the pretext of meeting him over an official matter, pulled out a revolver and fired at Bandaranaike. He was grievously injured and died the following day in hospital.
Sep 26, 2020 · Today, 26 September 2020, is the 61st death anniversary of Sri Lanka’s fourth Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. A gun and a bullet ended his life, but what really killed him was the unmitigated avarice of a person who was the opposite and a disgrace to the message of Buddha.
Every morning, before going to Parliament, Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike (1899-1959) met petitioners, rich and poor, who lined up at his residence at 65 Rosmead Place, Colombo.
