12/11/2022 0 Comments D.b. dissanayaka sinhala booksR Premadasa on the other hand, who would not have risen to the pinnacle of the United National Party (UNP) but for the fact that J R foresaw the immediate future of the Party lay in the hands of a populist leader whose appeal to the déclassé of Sri Lankan voters, as a hardworking politician whose work and hobby both were politics, as a an ambitious self-driven politician was unmatched and unmatchable at the time and even since then. Nevertheless, while J R’s refusal to take over the reins set him back almost two and half decades for his ambition of leading Sri Lanka, Dudley’s takeover proved that he was not ready for the grueling trail of political intrigue. Dudley had one significant advantage over anyone else as he was the son of the deceased Prime Minister D S Senanayake. When Dudley asked him to take over the wheels of the State in 1951, (source: Pages 258 and 259, JR Jayewardene of Sri Lanka by Professor K M de Silva and Howard Wriggins) J R refused realizing that Dudley was much more acceptable to the country at the time. J R, in fact should have been the Prime Minister of Ceylon in the wake of the death of D S Senanayake. For instance, J R was far behind his time when he assumed power in 1977.
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