Word: vimala
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Banda won the election and became Prime Minister. In token of his gratitude, he took his Cabinet to Buddharakitha's temple for the customary postinaugural rites. He also gave the post of Minister of Health to Buddharakitha's intimate friend, the handsome widow Vimala Wijewardene, then 47. But when the high priest demanded a $6,000,000 government contract for the construction of a sugar factory and government concessions for a shipping company he planned to set up, Banda balked. Buddharakitha, who had reveled in his position as kingmaker, felt that he had been publicly humiliated. He decided...
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