By Vishvanath
The JVP owes its success to its skillful propaganda or strategic communication/messaging, among a few other things. Its sloganeering skills are simply unparalleled, as was seen during its presidential and parliamentary election campaigns late last year. The flipside...
By kassapa
Time was when the ‘Rajapaksa’ name the most marketable brand in Sri Lankan politics. That was after Mahinda Rajapaksa provided the political leadership to successfully defeat the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009. Being the smart...
By Vishvanath
The last thing that a government, troubled by a host of unresolved issues, wants ahead of an election is to be accused of a scam, a mega one for that matter. The incumbent JVP-led NPP administration finds itself...
by Vishvanath
The Opposition succeeded in putting the JVP-NPP government on the defensive, much earlier than expected, with the help of an effective propaganda campaign, highlighting the ruling alliances’ lapses, ineptitude, policy contradictions, and unfulfilled election promises. The SJB, the...
by Vishvanath
The UNP and the SJB are redoubling their efforts to forge a common electoral alliance before the upcoming local government (LG) elections slated for early April. They have had three rounds of talks so far, and the second...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 24: The Sri Lankan Cabinet of Ministers chaired by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has revoked a decision made by his predecessor Ranil Wickremesinghe in June last year, to award a 484 mw wind power plants in...
By Kassapa
The corridors of power are buzzing with the news of talks between the two so-called main ‘right-of-centre’ political parties, the United National Party (UNP) and the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB), to explore the prospect of reconciliation.
At the time...
by Vishvanath
The NPP leaders have become agitated as never before. They are on the offensive, berating their political opponents. They are also holding public rallies attended by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake himself and repeating their election promises. They have...
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....
Swadesh Roy
The lower court has denied bail to Chinmoy Kumar Das (Chinmoy Prabhu). According to the prosecution, the case does not qualify for bail. However, Chinmoy Das’s young lawyer, despite limited opportunities to argue, patiently explained to the court...
by Vishvanath
On Dec., 20, 2024, this column highlighted a setback the ruling NPP had suffered in a cooperative society election in Moratuwa, one of the key electorates which delivered huge majorities to the NPP in the last general election....
By Vishvanath
The NPP government may not have bargained for the situation it finds itself in at present. It is struggling to fulfil its election pledges and even denying that it ever made some of them. Minister of Power and...
