evidence: Sajith Premadasa, the son of former President Ranasighe Premadasa, is the current Opposition Leader of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and the Leader of the main opposition party, Samagi Jana Balawegaya. Sajith schooled at St. Thomas Preparatory College and Royal College, after which he sat for his O/L and A/L examinations at London’s Mill Hill School. He excelled at studies and extracurriculars, winning the A/L prize for politics and business studies while being a prefect and captaining the First XI Cricket Team of Mill Hill School. [...] In 1994, following the footsteps of his late father, he decided to take the plunge into grassroots politics when he was made the District Organizer for Hambantota for the United National Party. He started his political career by launching the project ‘Janasuwaya’ to alleviate poverty in the Hambantota District, where he worked for years at the grassroots level. In the 2000 Parliamentary Elections, he secured the highest number of preferential votes in the district and the highest vote percentage in the country and entered the parliament for the first time. United National Party assumed office a year later, and Sajith was appointed Deputy Minister of Health. He secured the highest percentage of preferential votes out of all United National Party candidates for four general elections in a row. In the decade that followed his being first elected to the parliament, Sajith rose to be recognized as a people-friendly political leader. He was elevated to the position of Deputy leader of the United National Party in 2011.