All main political parties in Sri Lanka are experiencing problems, albeit to varying degrees, and some of them even show signs of disintegration. This augurs ill for the country’s democracy, which has come under severe strain, as evident from...
Saturday’s protest by the JVP youth wing, the Socialist Youth Union (SYU), in Colombo, could be considered an attempt to trigger another wave of anti-government agitations, which seem to have let up during the past several weeks. The government...
Sri Lanka’s electoral system is in the news again. President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said the government is keen to introduce electoral reforms, and even ready to seek people’s approval for them at a referendum in case it fails to...
Aragalaya has fizzled out, and the government seems to think it is out of danger and free to do as it pleases. It is reverting old ways. Hope is said to spring eternal, and when Ranil Wickremesinghe became the President,...
by Vishvanath
These are bad days for the Sri Lankan political parties, some of which have suffered crippling splits. No sooner had a group of 13 SLPP MPs opted to sit in the Opposition as an independent group than nine...
The government has got tough with its rivals, who are regrouping in a bid to make an early comeback. The police descended on a protest march conducted by university students, trade unionists and others, in Colombo, on Tuesday, against...
Hardly anything goes as planned in politics, which is full of uncertainties. Trouble is reportedly brewing in the government earlier than expected, with the SLPP and the UNP being engaged in a cold war of sorts. The SLPP is...
There has been much talk about an all-party government, which was expected to be formed shortly after the election by the parliament of Ranil Wickremesinghe as the President on July 20. But there are no signs of it becoming...
The Supreme Court has commenced hearing several petitions against the 22nd constitutional amendment Bill presented to the parliament on August 10. It is expected to convey its decision to the Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena. One of the main arguments...
Sri Lanka, like any other nation, has its share of conspiracy theorists, who see a crocodile in every glass of water, as a popular local saying goes. Some of them have even claimed that the LTTE bomb attack which...
The prevailing economic crisis, which threatens the very survival of the Sri Lankan nation and has overshadowed all other issues, and the resultant social and political unrest that endangers democracy, have prompted the political leaders to work in earnest...
The Galle Face protesters, who have come to be fondly dubbed ‘Aragalaya’ activists, may not have bargained for what is happening today. They may also not have expected to achieve their original goal (of ousting President Gotabaya Rajapaksa) so...
