United National Party

…in Sri Lanka, the conservative United National Party (UNP) and the more liberal Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) have dominated the political arena since independence. A splinter party from the SLFP, known as the Sri Lanka Podujana Peremuna party (SLPP), emerged as a political force after parliament member and former…

The United National Party (UNP), a coalition of a number of nationalist and communal parties, won the majority; it chose Don Stephen Senanayake as prime minister and advocated orderly and conservative progress. The UNP was dominated by the English-educated leaders of the colonial era, who were…

…government formed by the moderate United National Party (UNP). He became the party’s second-ranking leader under D.S. Senanayake and then under his son, Dudley Senanayake, and held such high posts as minister of finance (1948–53, 1960), minister of food and agriculture (1953–56), and minister of state (1965–70). Upon the death…

…Sabha behind the newly created United National Party (UNP) of D.S. Senanayake, which was to dominate politics for the first 10 years of Ceylonese independence.