Political Career
After returning to Sri Lanka, she took up politics in the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and, in 1974, became an Executive Committee member of its Women's League. Following the land reforms in Sri Lanka from 1972–1976. She was the principal director of the Land Reform Commission. From 1976–1977, she was chairman of the Janawasa Commission, which established collective farms. From 1976–1979, she acted as a consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
She stayed in active politics supporting her husband's party, the Sri Lanka Mahajana Party, by leaving the SLFP. After Kumaratunga was assassinated, she left the country for the United Kingdom, working for World Institute for Development Economics Research at the United Nations University in the interim, and not returning till 1991.
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