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

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

Founded in 1965 by Rohana Wijeweera, the leftist JVP, the NPP’s main constituent party, is not a new political outfit. The ...

Controversy surrounds the education authorities setting a mid-year test paper on General Knowledge with questions on the ...

Friday 15th November, 2024 The much-awaited parliamentary election came to pass yesterday, and its outcome was not known at ...

In the light of the prevailing utterly confused and divided and completely lost electorate, I opine it is a foregone conclusion that no party will get a clear majority to form a stable government at ...

The JVP took a hard line towards the North-East merger. Apart from openly opposing it as a political party, the JVP also established front organisations to promote anti-merger protests.

Tuesday 12th November, 2024 Another round of promise making has come to an end with two days to go before the next general election. Perhaps, the only thing Sri Lankan politicians do ‘as if to the ...

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 ...

We urge workers, students, youth and rural poor to vote for the SEP in this election to express their support for our ...

In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s President Anura Dissanayake faces a range of key political risks and challenges, particularly given ...