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 Kassapa The next elections are a moment of reckoning not only for Sri Lanka but also for what was not so long ago its most powerful political party, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP). Whether the ‘pohottuwa’, as the...
By Kassapa
The ‘News is good’ or ‘aaranchiya subai’ said the posters that suddenly emerged overnight. Perhaps President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s advertising gurus had taken a leaf out of Ranasinghe Premadasa’s book: he plastered the walls of the country overnight with...
By Kassapa
After months of dilly-dallying and procrastinating, President Ranil Wickremesinghe has a stark political choice before him: does he align himself with the Rajapaksas or does he dump them now?
This is, of course, assuming that Wickremesinghe will run for...
By Kassapa
Last week, we wrote in these columns about United National Party (UNP) General Secretary Range Bandara’s proposal to conduct a referendum to extend President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s term of office and posed the question, was Range losing the...
By Kassapa
Sri Lankans in recent years have become used to the absurd becoming the normal: a politician rejected by the people at the last election and sent home becoming President, a person found guilty of violating fundamental rights becoming...
If one needed proof that ‘law and order’ is merely a phrase in Sri Lanka with no meaning at all, there was another example on display last week, involving State Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises Development, Prasanna Ranaweera.
Ranaweera...
By Kassapa
Last week’s Supreme Court verdict that ousted rabble-rouser Diana Gamage from Parliament brings to an end a long running legal battle between the former Member of Parliament and her nemesis, Social activist Oshala Herath. However, it also raises...
By Kassapa
Sometimes, ministers make a fool of themselves. That is an occupational hazard. Occasionally, they display their lack of intelligence. These days that is not rare. Every once in a while, a minister shows what a complete buffoon he...
By Kassapa
There has been a great deal of public reaction to the debacle of a political discussion on a television channel where Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) parliamentarians Tissa Kuttiarachchi and D. Weerasinghe were making a display of the...
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...
By Kassapa
The Sinhala and Tamil New Year is over. That heralds the final stretch of the presidential election which is shaping up to be essentially a three-horse race- though there will be many ‘also rans’. It can still end...
