NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka welcomed its sixteenth Prime Minister on Tuesday, Harini Amarasuriya, an academic-turned-politician who grew to become the primary girl to carry the place since Sirimavo Bandaranaike in 2000. Amarasuriya brings each a deep tutorial background and a major hyperlink to India.
Amarasuriya, 54, spent her formative school years at Delhi University, finding out on the famend Hindu School within the early Nineties.
From 1991 to 1994, she pursued her Bachelor’s diploma in Sociology at Delhi College, a interval that her alma mater believes might have formed her future trajectory.
“It is an honour to know {that a} Hinduite has turn into the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. Harini was a scholar of Sociology from 1991 to 1994, and we’re extraordinarily happy with her accomplishments,” Hindu School Principal Anju Srivastava instructed PTI. “I hope her time at Hindu performed an element in shaping her path to success.”
Srivastava highlighted that Hindu School has a wealthy custom of scholar governance. “We elect a main minister and a frontrunner of opposition yearly. Harini’s appointment is one other milestone in our school’s storied historical past,” she added.
Nalin Rajan Singh, now a Bollywood director and a batchmate of Amarasuriya, recalled the early 90s at Hindu School. “I vaguely keep in mind her, however I do know she was very concerned in school festivals and debates. It was the 90s, and a whole lot of us — individuals like Imtiaz Ali and Arnab Goswami — have been beginning to make our mark. To see her turn into prime minister is superb.”
Singh, who served because the president of the Hindu School college students’ hostel, famous the thrill amongst alumni and hoped to welcome Amarasuriya again to the faculty sooner or later.
Many consider her appointment may additional strengthen ties between India and Sri Lanka.
Amarasuriya was sworn in by Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who additionally appointed himself to the cupboard alongside three others. As the brand new Prime Minister, Amarasuriya will oversee key ministries, together with justice, schooling, labour, industries, science and know-how, well being, and funding.
