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...
By Kassapa
For the politically naïve, every opportunity is a crisis. For the politically astute, every crisis is an opportunity. The political party which has ruled Sri Lanka for the longest period of time, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP),...
By Kassapa
When Maithripala Sirisena startled everyone by announcing suddenly that he knows who masterminded the 2019 Easter Day attacks, the first question that many asked was whether Sri Lanka’s Sixth Executive President had finally lost his marbles.
The claim was...
By Kassapa
The honeymoon between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) is now officially over. As the mundane business of wedded political life takes over, cracks are appearing in this marriage of convenience.
Last week Wickremesinghe met...