“We believe that this is a crucial election that will mark a turning point in Sri Lanka,” Mr Dissanayake told reporters ...

New Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's party was set for a landslide victory in snap legislative elections, ...

Millions of Sri Lankans voted Thursday to choose a new parliament in a key election that will decide if the country’s new ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the presidential election on September 21 in a victory that marked a rejection of the ...

Similarly, the NPP, which is led by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP or People’s Liberation Front), must now ... The two ...

Sri Lanka's new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake was confident of a victory as polls closed in Thursday's snap legislative ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, whose Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party had just three seats in the outgoing assembly ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka’s new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake was confident ... referring to the National People’s Power ...

Sri Lanka on Thursday (Nov. 14) voted in snap parliamentary elections, in which the new leftist President Anura Kumara ...

This enabled Anura to spearhead a commendable political renaissance of the JVP led NPP. As is well known , Anura Kumara Dissanayake finished first in the presidential election held on 24 September ...

His JVP party led two insurrections in 1971 and 1987 ... The outgoing parliament was dominated by the party of former ...

Forming a part of the JVP’s violent history is the bombing of the Sri Lanka parliament on August 18, 1987, a period of ...