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Anura Kurankan Dissanayake
Anura Kumara Dissanayake, commonly referred to by his initials AKD, is a Sri Lankan politician who has served as the tenth president of Sri Lanka since 2024. Dissanayake is the first Sri Lankan president to be elected in a second round of vote counting, and the first not to be a member of the traditional political parties of Sri Lanka. He is also the ninth executive president of Sri Lanka, a const…
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politics · President of Sri Lanka since 2024 · politician · president · also Anura Kurankan Dissanayake, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, Anura Dissanayaka
Born 24 November 1968 · Q4777855
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2026· 11 entries
Published video “ජනතාවට හොඳ දෙයක් කරන්න ඕනෑම අභියෝගයක් බාරගන්නවා...”.
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Published video “ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීතිඥ සංගමය සමඟ පැවති හමුවේදී දැක්වූ අදහස් | Anura Kumara Dissanayake”.
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Published video “මූල්‍ය විනය රකින රාජ්‍ය සේවයක් සමගින් ආර්ථික සංවර්ධනය කරා...”.
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Published video “වෙනසක් නොමැතිව හැම දරුවෙකුගේම සිහින සැබෑ කිරීමට කැපවෙමු...”.
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Published video “ඔටුනු පැලඳි, පලඳින දරුවන් සමඟ සියවසක් සමරමින්...”.
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Published video “වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව යටතේ ගොවි ජනතාවට වඩා හොඳ ජීවිතයක් ලබා දෙනවා | Anura Kumara Dissanayake”.
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Published video “දිස්ත්‍රික් ලේකම් සමුළුවට එක්වෙමින්...”.
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Published video “Another 1,132 Sri Lankan Personnel to be deployed for United Nations Peacekeeping Missions | AKD”.
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Published video “අපි ම්ලේච්ඡ ඝාතන සහ අපරාධවලට එරෙහිව නීතිය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීම සඳහා බැඳී සිටින ආණ්ඩුවක්...”.
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Published video “සංවිධානාත්මක අපරාධ කල්ලි සහ ඒ හා බැඳුණු දේශපාලන ජාලය මුලිනුපුටා දමනවා...”.
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2025· 2 entries
Proposed that more Tamil-speaking Sri Lankans should be recruited to the Sri Lanka Police
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Pledged that Sri Lankan territory will not be allowed to be used for anti-Indian activities
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2024· 3 entries
Campaign: 2024 presidential election.
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And was elected as President of Sri Lanka on 22 September 2024, becoming the first president to be elected from a third party
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Career landmark: President of Sri Lanka (2024).
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2019· 2 entries
Campaign: 2019 presidential election.
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Became the founding leader of the National People's Power (NPP)
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2014· 1 entry
Became the leader of the JVP and was elected to Parliament from the Colombo District in 2015
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2008· 1 entry
Was appointed the leader of the JVP in parliament
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2004· 2 entries
From the Kurunegala District with the highest number of preferential votes and served as Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation from 2004 to 2005
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The JVP allied with the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), contesting as a part of the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) in the 2004 parliamentary elections and won 39 seats in parliament
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2000· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka (2000–2024).
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1998· 1 entry
And entered parliament from the national list in 2000
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1995· 2 entries
Was elected the national organiser of the Socialist Students Union in 1997
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Dissanayake was appointed the National Organiser of the JVP-backed Socialist Students Union, and soon took control of the Inter University Students' Federation
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1992· 1 entry
Where he completed his studies and graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree
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1987· 2 entries
A 19-year-old Dissanayake formally joined the JVP with his first cousin Sunil Dissanayake (Sunil Aiya), who convinced him to join while waiting for his GCE (AL) examination results
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And engaged in clandestine revolutionary activity until he was forced to go underground due to threats posed by the counterinsurgency operations undertaken by the government
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1978· 1 entry
From the earlier non-executive presidency
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1968· 1 entry
Born 1968-11-24.
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