By Vishvanath
Sri Lanka is apparently coming under a pall of political uncertainty, again, following Tuesday’s local government (LG) elections; the government and the Opposition are jockeying for control of the hung local councils across the country.
The NPP’s victory in...
By Kassapa
The much-hyped local government elections are over. As predicted, the ruling Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) emerged the single largest party in a vast majority of local councils. The collective opposition performed poorly as expected, but one wouldn’t realise...
by Vishvanath
The much-awaited local government (LG) elections are scheduled to be held tomorrow at 13,759 polling stations countrywide. More than 75,000 candidates are in the fray. Stakes in the contest are extremely high for all political parties, especially the ruling...
By Kassapa
After an all too brief respite, elections are here again, now for local government institutions. These polls, originally scheduled for early 2023 were postponed by then President Ranil Wickremesinghe in his capacity as Finance Minister citing a lack...
By Vishvanath
The NPP government has made elaborate preparations to put on a show of strength tomorrow, with only a few days to go before the local government (LG) elections. It will hold its May Day rally at Galle Face,...
By Vishvanath
There is hardly anything that Sri Lankan politicians do not make use of to gain political mileage. They do not even spare religion, religious leaders and places of worship. This practice, however, is not of recent origin; its...
A brief history of duplicitous politics and broken promises
By Vishvanath
Old habits are said to die hard, and the NPP government and its leader, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, stand accused of employing the same campaign tactics as their predecessors in...
By Kassapa
The sixth anniversary of the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks that claimed the lives of two hundred and seventy civilians, mostly devotees attending church has come and gone and the same question is being asked: are we any...
By Vishvanath
India and Sri Lanka share an umbilical relationship rooted in deep civilizational, cultural, and religious linkages. However, this proximity has not always translated into mutual trust for both known and unknown reasons.
Historical ties between Sri Lanka and...
By Kassapa
There is never a dull moment in Sri Lankan politics these days and not even the general state of inertia imposed by the Sinhala and Tamil New Year could dampen the excitement generated from the detention of Sivanesathurai...
by Vishvanath
Time was when the local government (LG) elections were typically taken for granted. Left mostly to grassroots politicians, they were derisively dubbed kaanu-bokku (drain-culvert) elections because of relatively insignificant tasks assigned to the local councils. Hence, the LG polls came...
By Kassapa
The news these days is filled with stories from various courts of politicians being indicted, detained and sentenced on corruption charges. This would be in keeping with the Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) government’s pledge to root out corruption....
