Samagi Jana Balawegaya (UK) However, Senanayake also adopted populist policies that made the party accepted in the grassroots level.
The UNP was founded on 6 September 1946 by amalgamating three right-leaning pro-dominion parties from the majority Sinhalese community and minority Tamil and Muslim communities. It was founded by Don Stephen Senanayake, who was in the forefront in the struggle for independence from the United Kingdom, having resigned from the Ceylon National Congress because he disagreed with its revised aim of 't
he achieving of freedom' from the British Empire.[1] The UNP represented the business community and the landed gentry.
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