Sri Lanka’s Marxist JVP In The Presidential Election – OpEd
According to the Sri Lankan Constitution, the presidential election should be held in September/October 2024. Some people believed, and some
Read moreAccording to the Sri Lankan Constitution, the presidential election should be held in September/October 2024. Some people believed, and some
Read moreThe national discourse in Sri Lanka moved from conflict termination to reconciliation with the end of the war in 2009.
Read moreOne of the highlights of President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s India visit last month was the agreement “to establish land connectivity between
Read moreMy new book, Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka: Presidential Elections, Manipulation, and Democracy, was published by Routledge (London) in July
Read moreSri Lanka’s long-awaited International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout finally came through. On March 20, 2023, the IMF approved three billion
Read moreSri Lanka has an election problem. In 2019, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a political novice with no elected office experience, contested to
Read moreFinally, Sri Lanka’s eighth executive president Gotabaya Nandasena Rajapaksa resigned on July 14, 2022. It would not be fallacious to
Read moreOn May 9, Mahinda Rajapaksa met his supporters at the Temple Trees, the prime minister’s official residence, before stepping down.
Read moreSri Lanka’s economic crisis instigated a people’s protest against the government. The stated objective was a system change. The protest
Read moreSri Lanka slipped into an economic crisis with socio-political implications in March 2022. I have explained the crux of the
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