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New date for Dudley memorial lecture

A commemorative lecture to mark the 99th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake, to be delivered by former Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha, has been postponed to July 22 due to unavoidable circumstances.

A UNP spokesman, representing the organizing committee, said the lecture was postponed as Mr. Sinha was not available until the last week of next month.

Mr. Senanayake was Sri Lanka’s second prime minister and served as premier on two more occasions between March 21, 1960 and July 21, 1960 and between March 27, 1965 and May 29, 1970.

The guest speaker, Mr. Sinha, is a prominent Indian politician who twice served as the finance minister of India, first under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar and then under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. A senior member and a leader of the main opposition Bharatiya Janatha Party (BJP), Mr. Sinha was appointed foreign minister in 2002 and served the BJP government until 2004.

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