Sirimavo bandaru nayake - Biography(life story)

"Sirimavo Bandaranaike is the first woman democratically elected Prime Minister of the world"

 She was born on April 17, 1916, into a prominent family. She is the eldest of their children. Four brothers, one sister, and nieces and nephews. She also studied at St. Bridge Convent in Colombo. But she is a Buddhist. In 1940 Salmon W. Three. De Bandaru married Nayake. He was the son of Sir Salman Dias Bandaranaike, a member of the State Council and an adviser to the then Governor. They have three children, Chandrika, Sunetra, and Aruna.

Her husband Nayaka is a member of the United National Party. He was also elected a member of the lower house in the post-independence elections. He later formed the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, which split from the party, and won the 1956 general election, winning the majority of seats on behalf of the party and becoming Prime Minister. He tried to direct the country towards socialism but was assassinated by a Buddhist monk for 3 years in office. The cabinet reshuffle in 1960 led to the change of cabinet by his successor, Vijaya Nanda Nayaka.

During the same period, she took over the leadership of the party from her husband and entered politics. Thus, she became the first woman Prime Minister in the world. Introduced to fellow Sri Lankans as Mrs. B, she cleverly provoked the crowd with occasional tears and vowed to fulfill her husband's wishes. Opposition groups called her the Weeping Lady.

As a socialist she nationalized important institutions in the country, the government took over the school and even incurred the wrath of Roman Catholics. Within a year of being elected, the state of emergency was declared and the introduction of Sinhala instead of English in government institutions angered Tamils. Subsequently, foreign oil companies were also taken over by the government and opposed by the United States and Britain. But Russia and China have been closely pardoned as alien leaders. In 1962, she joined forces with Christian forces in the country to overthrow the government. In 1964, Sri Lanka joined the Marxist Party. The no-confidence motion against her was defeated in 1964 and she lost the 1965 democratic elections.

She joined hands with the Communists in 1970 and became Prime Minister again. In 1971, leftists overthrew her government after 16 months of trying to overthrow it with the help of the military. For that, India and Pakistan stood by her. Then foreign policy-protected her. In 1972, the Constitution was changed from Ceylon to Sri Lanka, a separate republic from the Commonwealth. The petroleum crisis of 1973 devastated the economy. With the cooperation of Western countries made it untenable to criticism. She became chairman of the Alien Movement in 1976 but her reputation in her country declined. Fearing defeat, she amended the constitution and postponed 1975 elections for two years, but was defeated in 1977 and won by only eight members on behalf of the party. She was banned from contesting elections for seven years for alleged abuse of power during her 1975-77 election to parliament. The mid-1980s were her most difficult time, even opposed by her children. Despite her bold political gimmicks, she also caused controversy between her daughter Chandrika and her son Amara.

Her party did worse than expected from opinion polls, which saw them at gaining about a third of the seats in the 1994 democratic elections. It was led by her daughter Chandrika Kumaratunga. Chandrika became the Prime Minister. She later became president and her mother, Sirimavo, became prime minister. But the daughter continued to be prime minister only in Kanusannala as the powers of the president were increased due to the constitutional amendment. She died on Election Day, October 10, 2000, at the age of 84.