The SLPP-UNP government has catapulted to the centre stage of politics the 13th Amendment to the Constitution (13A), of all things, making its critics ask whether it has got its priorities mixed up, for its focus at this juncture...
Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s Sri Lanka visit and talks with the Tamil political parties here triggered speculation that the Rajapaksa government would be compelled to expedite the process of holding the much-delayed Provincial Council (PC) elections. But...
There appeared to be more police riot squad personnel than protesters in Colombo on Wednesday (02)! What one beheld was a sea of white police helmets. Uniformed policemen wearing gas masks formed a wall of sorts across the road,...
Atheists and nonbelievers in karma will have their work cut out to explain what is happening on Sri Lanka’s political front, especially the predicament of key political leaders and their parties struggling either to redo what they once undid...
There will be an edge-of-your-seat drama unfolding in Parliament soon, and that might even make the public forget the raging pandemic and the soaring cost of living. The protagonist is UNP leader and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who...
There is no likelihood of a presidential election being held this year. The Constitution permits only popularly elected Presidents to advance presidential elections, and President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was elected by the parliament, cannot opt for early presidential polls...
The Rajapaksas and their loyalists used to ridicule the UNP for its inability to field its own presidential candidates; UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe shrank from running for President in 2010, 2015 and 2019, consecutively, and let common candidates contest...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Monday, presented the 2014 Budget themed, ‘A Prelude to a Bright Future’. It is now under the microscope, and there has been a mixed reaction to it. The President has vehemently denied that it is...
People’s resentment is palpable, and there is a huge pressure build-up in politics. The government is not doing enough to defuse it. Its much-advertised relief package is of little use, given the huge rise in inflation, and shortages of...
People envy their rulers, who seem to have all the luck, but there occur times when the latter bemoan their much-coveted positions, just like the title character in Shakespeare’s play, ‘Henry IV’. The English King says, “Uneasy lies the...
Elvis Presley famously likened ambition to a dream with a V8 engine, meaning that if one had to get anywhere one had to rev it up oneself. Many Sri Lankas are doing so. Hence there is no dearth of...
Some SLPP dissidents have thrown down the gauntlet in what is going to be a crucial legal battle against the government. Political observers are watching the drama playing out at Huftsdorp with keen interest. They consider it unprecedented.
The government—the...
