Sri Lanka will celebrate her 75th Independence Day with much fervour and enthusiasm. Parades and various cultural parades to celebrate the birth of free Sri Lanka are held around the country to mark this occasion. The National Ceremony to mark this significant milestone of the country will be held in a grand scale at Galle Face Green Colombo today, under the theme “Namo Namo Matha-A step towards a century”.
The National Ceremony to be held under the patronage of President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena will begin at 8.30 a.m.
The festivities are scheduled to begin after the offering of floral tributes at the statue of Mahamanya D.S. Senanayake at Independence Square and the statue of the war heroes at the Presidential Secretariat.