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Formation of UNP and after

When the Party had to face the General Elections in 1956, which came rather suddenly, because Sir John dissolved Parliament one year earlier. S.W.R.D. did not have the ready cash to spend for the Party at the Elections. Mostly, all his candidates were not people with much means. They were mainly rural base persons.
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