New Delhi: Harini Amarasuriya was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister on Tuesday after the social gathering led by Ranil Wickremesinghe fell brief within the presidential election. Amarasuriya, a member of the Nationwide Individuals’s Energy Alliance (NPP), turns into the third lady to carry the place and the primary since 2000. The oath of workplace was administered by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake throughout a ceremony in Colombo.
Harini Amarasuriya, born on March 6, 1970, has turn into Sri Lanka’s 16th prime minister and the third lady to carry the workplace, following Sirimavo Bandaranaike and Chandrika Kumaratunga.
She is a distiguished tutorial and holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the College of Edinburgh. Her experience spans state-society relations, political actions, and activism.
She is the primary lady to carry the Prime Minister’s chair in practically 25 years, with Sirimavo Bandaranaike’s final time period ending in 2000.
Her journey as a public activist started in 2011, when she joined protests advocating without cost training, a BBC report acknowledged. Amarasuriya entered Parliament by way of the Nationwide Individuals’s Energy (NPP) nationwide record in 2020 and has since actively participated in parliamentary periods.
Amarasuriya earned her Bachelor’s diploma in Sociology from Delhi College between 1991 and 1994, reported PTI. She studied on the prestigious Hindu Faculty.
Along with her political profession, Amarasuriya is an academician with {qualifications} together with a BA (Honours) in Sociology, an MA in Utilized Anthropology and Growth Research, and a PhD in Social Anthropology.
Throughout her tenure in Sri Lanka’s ninth Parliament (2020-2024), she maintained an lively presence, attending 269 parliamentary periods, in accordance with the Sri Lankan Parliament’s official web site.
Amarasuriya is the primary academic-turned-politician to ascend to the prime ministerial position in Sri Lanka, the place she additionally serves as a senior lecturer on the Open College’s Social Research Division.
