By Vishvanath
Former President Maithripala Sirisena has created quite a stir by claiming that he possesses irrefutable evidence to prove who actually masterminded the Easter Sunday terror attacks in April 2019. Fielding questions from a horde of hectoring provincial reporters,...
By Vishvanath
The cold war between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and SLPP founder, Basil Rajapaksa, has come to a head. Close on the heels of Wickremesinghe’s announcement, at a recent Cabinet meeting, that the next presidential election would be held first...
By Vishvanath
Presidential election campaigns of the UNP, the SJB and the NPP have got underway in earnest. They have commenced a bit too early, and sustaining their momentum and preventing them from plateauing a few months ahead of the contest...
By Vishvanath
The SJB and the JVP-led NPP are vying with each other aggressively to enlist the support of former high-ranking military officers and the members of the Maha Sangha, with about six or seven months to go for the...
By Vishvanath
Chief Strategist of the SLPP, Basil Rajapaksa, has returned from the US and started pulling the strings around as if to the manner born. When he landed at the BIA on March 05, the SLPP gave him a...
By Visvanath
The SLPP had a meteoric rise in national politics and captured state power three years after its formation in 2016, but it failed to consolidate its electoral gains and is not a shadow of its former self. Has...
By Visvanath
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena finds himself in an unenviable position. The Opposition’s no-faith motion against him will have to be taken up for debate in the parliament soon. Although the SLPP, which the Speaker represents, has a parliamentary...
By VishvanathThe SJB is preening itself on the success of its women’s rally in Kandy on Saturday (Feb. 24). Itsleader and presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa, speaking at the event, spelt out his party’s policiestowards women. The first conference of...
By Vishvanath
Political parties are upshifting with only about eight months to go for the next presidential election. The SLPP-UNP government stands accused of trying to put off the presidential poll as well, the way it postponed the Local Government...
by Vishvanath
Sri Lankan politics may be divisive and obnoxious, but it is always exciting nonetheless; it is full of dramatic twists and turns. Political circuses keep coming to town often, so to speak, and they overshadow everything else.
JVP leader...
By Vishvanath
Group dynamics could be problematic. They have the potential to impact the unity of any organization adversely, be it social, political, economic or otherwise. Even close-knit families tend to disintegrate when group dynamics are not managed properly. The...
By Vishvanath
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is using everything at his disposal to gain maximum possible political mileage and increase the momentum of his presidential election campaign, which commenced in earnest last month. He came under heavy fire for proroguing the...
