The statue of Hon. D.S. Senanayake at Mahamaluwa has been tributed with flowers to mark the occasion of the 75th National Independence Day of Sri Lanka, today(Feb 04) morning. Hon. D.S. Senanayake, the first Prime Minister of independent Sri Lanka, who came to Independence Square in Colombo on February 4, 1948, was a leader who performed an indefatigable task to gain full independence from the British imperialists who had conquered Sri Lanka for more than a century since 1815.
