The Colombo-based commentariat is speculating that the SLPP is not likely to field a member of the Rajapaksa family as its presidential candidate, and therefore, business tycoon, Dhammika Perera, stands a better chance of running for President with the...
By Vishvanath
An election season is in the air as another year is drawing to a close. Political parties are shifting gears. They are likely to go into overdrive in mid-2024. Elections are a Dickensian paradox in this country. They...
By Vishvanath
The SLPP’s second national convention held last Friday (Dec. 15) has attracted much media attention for all the wrong reasons. Going by the SLPP leaders’ fiery speeches replete with rhetoric and bellicosity, the event looked more like the...
Brigadier SK Chatterji (Retd);December 15, 2023
Two full-fledged conventional wars are concurrently writing hugely blood-stained stories on two different continents. The Ukraine War is close to being two years old, while the other in Gaza is barely two months. Over...
By Vishvanath
Elaborate arrangements have been made for the SLPP’s national convention to be held on a grand scale in Colombo, today. A large number of party supporters and political leaders representing the constituents of the ruling coalition are expected...
By Vishvanath
The Opposition’s anti-government campaign in the parliament has resonated with the irate public, but it has failed to yield the intended results. The government has retained its hold on the legislature, and the Opposition has failed to match...
by Vishvanath
No government ever wants to undertake anything that increases the cost of living in an election year. As an avalanche is to a mountaineer, so is the political fallout of a massive tax increase to a regime preparing...
by Vishvanath
Something of immense political significance happened on Tuesday (Dec. 06), but it passed without attracting much attention. Perhaps, political commentators were preoccupied with the ongoing budget debate and the unfolding Sri Lanka Cricket drama, which has apparently eclipsed...
By Vishvanath
There was an interesting rags-to-riches story in the newspapers some years ago. A tea maker working in a canteen at a state institution in Monaragala won the first prize in a lottery. He failed to manage his fortune,...
So, it has now been confirmed that the Local Government (LG) and Provincial Council (PC) elections will not be held next year. President Ranil Wickremesinghe has told the parliament in no uncertain terms that the presidential and parliamentary elections...
What really happened during the final stages of the Galle Face protest campaign, or Aragalaya, as it came to be known, which led to the resignation of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Cabinet in May 2023 and the...
The Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe government has proved, much to the disappointment of its rivals, that its parliamentary majority is still intact. It had the second reading of the 2024 budget passed with a majority of 45 votes on Tuesday (21). It...
