evidence: Colombo, President Ranil Wickremesinghe who lost Sri Lanka's presidential election on Sunday bid an emotional farewell to his 26 months job as the island nation's president and handed over the care of the "child" called Sri Lanka to president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayake. [...] Marxist leader Dissanayake, 56, popularly known as AKD, was declared the winner of Saturday's presidential election. [...] His accession to the post is a remarkable turnaround for his half-century-old party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna , which had long remained on the margins. He is Sri Lanka’s first-ever Marxist party leader to become head of state.