{"id":10929,"date":"2012-09-22T23:11:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T03:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=10929"},"modified":"2012-09-22T23:11:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T03:11:48","slug":"veteran-lssp-theoretician-hector-abhayawardhana-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=10929","title":{"rendered":"Veteran LSSP Theoretician Hector Abhayawardhana Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HA92212.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HA92212.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"HA92212\" width=\"120\" height=\"147\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10931\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>T<\/strong>he death occurred yesterday of Mr. Hector Abhayawardhana, a founder member of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party and perhaps the last of the party\u2019s old guard from its glory days.<\/p>\n<p>He was over 90-years old at the time of his death but was in command of his faculties almost to the end of his life. An authority on the history of the party, he had over a long period contributed much intellectual input into its deliberations.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nA soft spoken, gentle personality, he was much loved within the party to which he dedicated most of his life.<\/p>\n<p>A talented journalist, he was responsible for founding and editing The Nation newspaper and was responsible for the LSSP acquiring its present headquarters at Dr. Colvin. R. de Silva Mawatha (Union Place.)Abhayawardhana served as Chairman of the People\u2019s Bank during Dr. N.M. Perera\u2019s tenure as Finance Minister and was responsible for many innovations there.<\/p>\n<p>He married Kusala, a former UNP Municipal Councilor and a member of a well known business family, who was subsequently elected to Parliament from the Borella constituency on the LSSP ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Abhayawardhana lived in India for many years during an earlier period of his life.<\/p>\n<p>His remains will lie at LSSP headquarter from 12 noon today, leaving for the General Cemetery at 4 p.m. for cremation at 6 p.m. today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton10929\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D10929&amp;text=Veteran%20LSSP%20Theoretician%20Hector%20Abhayawardhana%20Passes%20Away&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death occurred yesterday of Mr. Hector Abhayawardhana, a founder member of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party and perhaps the last of the party\u2019s old guard from its glory days. He was over 90-years old at the time of his death but was in command of his faculties almost to the end of his life. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=10929\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Veteran LSSP Theoretician Hector Abhayawardhana Passes Away&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10932,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929\/revisions\/10932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}