By Vishvanath
The Election Commission (EC) has at long last decided to hold the next presidential election on Sept. 21, 2024. It has thus ended months of speculation that the government might do something to delay the crucial poll. However,...
By Kassapa
The marriage of convenience between Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Rajapaksas which earned the former the sobriquet ‘Ranil Rajapaksa’ is at breaking point now and is bound to be tested even more in the coming weeks, as dates for...
By Vishvanath
What is happening in Sri Lankan politics is a textbook case of irony. The SLPP government, under President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s stewardship, is busy undoing what it pledged to do in its election manifestos or did after being voted...
By Vishvanath
The incumbent SLPP-UNP government is a contradiction in itself. It is doing exactly the opposite of what those who voted the SLPP into power expected. This fact became manifestly clear from a statement President Ranil Wickremesinghe made...
By Kassapa
We wrote in these columns about the circus enacted by an individual identifying himself as C.D. Lenawa who emerged from virtually nowhere and challenged the validity of the 19th Amendment of the Constitution, pleading in the Supreme Court that...
By VishvanathThe dynamics of the ongoing presidential race are undergoing radical changes with new political alliancesemerging and intra party rivalries and conflicts coming into the open. Political leaders have had to adapt theirstrategies accordingly.It is a mistake for anyone...
By Vishvanath
There seems to be no end in sight to efforts being made to delay the upcoming presidential election. Close on the heels of the dismissal by the Supreme Court of a fundamental rights (FR) petition which sought a...
By Kassapa
Last week, the corridors of power were buzzing with yet another constitutional conspiracy theory. That was after a hitherto lesser-known individual by the name of C.D. Lenawa submitted a Fundamental Rights (FR) application to the Supreme Court asking...
By Vishvanath
The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday (July 09) summoned the Government Printer, the IGP, and the Post Master General for a discussion on the upcoming presidential election. Several rounds of such meetings usually take place before elections. The...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 9:
There are striking similarities between the outcomes of the recent Indian and French parliamentary elections. For one thing, in both, the extreme Right Wing suffered a telling blow.
In India, the Rightist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
By Vishavanath
Marriages may be made in heaven, as is popularly believed, but political marriages are undoubtedly made on earth or perhaps even in hell, for they are uneasy, weak unions among self-serving politicians who act out of expediency rather...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 4:
In a controversial step, Narendra Modi government in India has replaced the country’s criminal laws by new ones on the plea that the old laws were “colonial” in character and were meant to sustain British...
