by Kassapa
When Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected President, many mocked him saying that he was the first ever President to be elected to office with a ‘minority’ of votes, not having secured 50 per cent of the ballots cast....
Anyone who has read Ms. Gamage's recent speeches will recall that her main target is the SJB, with vitriol directed specifically at its leader, Sajith Premadasa. Her aim is to diminish the SJB and its leadership in the eyes...
This sequence of events has all the features of a meticulously scripted drama. Much has been made of the fact that neither the President’s Secretary nor the Prime Minister intervened; indeed, they should be commended for not doing so....
By kassapa
The launch of the so-called ‘Anura Meter’, a measure of the election promises kept by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and his Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) government has caused ripples in political circles. This index, initiated by a...
In the lead up to the 2019 presidential election, a major theme of the then opposition which was promoting Gotabaya Rajapaksa as its candidate was ‘one country, one law’.
The reference, of course, was to the Muslim community which had...
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...
Sri Lanka’s cricket, once known for its dashing playing style and legendary stars, has made world headlines for the wrong reasons. One of its cricketers, Danushka Gunathilaka, who was touring with the national team for the recently concluded T20...
By Kassapa
Last week, we wrote in these columns how, if the beleaguered Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) navigates its current crisis intelligently, it could reinvent itself and regain its position as one of the major parties in the country...
Sri Lanka is a nation that has hurtled from crisis to crisis: two insurrections in the South, the assassination of two of its leaders and similar attempts on others, terrorism in the North which then spread to the South...
By Kassapa
This week’s general election will be a watershed moment in the country’s post-independence political history just as much as the September 21 presidential election was. It will provide a stamp of approval for the Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB)...
By Kassapa
If one were to capture in a single word the rationale of a majority of voters electing Anura Kumara Dissanayake as President and the Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) into government with a two-thirds majority late last year, it...
Basil’s entreaty to Ranil to save the party from predators such as Lanza points to something like a political divorce.
The SLPP is not about policies or principles. It is quite simply a family project, of Rajapaksas.
It would...
