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The Hindu profiles on Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
1 month ago

The Hindu profiles on Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

The Hindu  

When Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected President of Sri Lanka in September, and his National People’s Power alliance swept the general elections on November 14, most international news headlines stamped the winners as ‘Marxist’. Wijeweera began what became the JVP in 1965, exactly three decades after Ceylon’s left movement birthed the country’s oldest party, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, consequent …

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Padma Rao Sundarji | ‘Honeymoon year’ for Sri Lanka’s new govt
1 month ago

Padma Rao Sundarji | ‘Honeymoon year’ for Sri Lanka’s new govt

Deccan Chronicle  

Fed up of nepotism, corruption and a staggering economic crisis and for the first time in their history, Sri Lankan citizens last week voted a largely unknown political party, the National People’s Power, with a landslide two-thirds majority in their Parliament. The JVP has consistently rejected all attempts to grant greater autonomy to Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern and Eastern provinces, …

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What Dissanayake's JVP sweeping Sri Lankan parliament polls means for India
1 month, 1 week ago

What Dissanayake's JVP sweeping Sri Lankan parliament polls means for India

Firstpost  

To date, no single entity, whether global or otherwise, has extended funds and facilities to Sri Lanka the way India has done—and that too without strings For the third time in a row, Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha became the first foreign dignitary to call on Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, AKD, after the ruling Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna-National People’s …

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Landslide win for Sri Lanka president's leftist coalition in snap polls
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1 month, 1 week ago

Landslide win for Sri Lanka president's leftist coalition in snap polls

Raw Story  

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake thanked voters Friday for delivering his leftist coalition a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections that repudiated establishment parties blamed for triggering an economic crisis. Dissanayake, a self-avowed Marxist, swept September presidential elections on a promise to combat graft and recover stolen assets, two years after a slow-motion financial crash imposed widespread hardships on …

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The Left turn in Sri Lanka
3 months ago

The Left turn in Sri Lanka

Hindustan Times  

The election of Anura Kumar Dissanayake, the leader of Janata Vimukti Perumuna, an outfit with Marxist leanings, as the ninth President of Sri Lanka, marks a new chapter in the island nation’s politics. In a way, the ascent of the JVP, which led two violent insurrections in 1971 and during 1987-89, and its eclipsing of the three mainstream parties that …

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‘I am not a magician,’ Sri Lanka’s Dissanayake tells supporters after taking oath as president
3 months ago

‘I am not a magician,’ Sri Lanka’s Dissanayake tells supporters after taking oath as president

Firstpost  

After taking oath on Monday, the new Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said he had no magic solution to the hardships suffered following an unprecedented economic crisis Sri Lanka's first leftist president, Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, took oath on Monday at the colonial-era Presidential Secretariat in Colombo after trouncing his nearest rivals in Saturday's vote. Sri Lanka’s first leftist president …

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Fixing Sri Lanka’s economy, wiping out racism top priority, says JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Fixing Sri Lanka’s economy, wiping out racism top priority, says JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake

The Hindu  

Fixing Sri Lanka’s battered economy and wiping out racism will be top priority for a National People’s Power government, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, among the frontrunners in the September 21 race, said on Tuesday. The NPP’s campaign began “long ago,” Mr. Dissanayake said, referring to his party’s steady efforts soon after its poor performance in the last election in 2019, when …

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On the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | Explained
9 months, 2 weeks ago

On the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | Explained

The Hindu  

March 07, 2024 10:51 pm | Updated March 08, 2024 10:26 am IST The story so far: On February 5, an unlikely visitor landed in Delhi from Sri Lanka on an official invitation. Over its five decade-existence, the JVP, which calls itself Marxist, but has been mostly a Sinhala nationalist party, has viewed India as an expansionist power seeking to …

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Sri Lankan Opposition JVP leader meets Jaishankar, Doval
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Sri Lankan Opposition JVP leader meets Jaishankar, Doval

The Hindu  

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of Sri Lanka’s leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, who is currently visiting India on New Delhi’s invitation, on Monday met External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, in an indication of the Union government’s high-level engagement with the 55-year-old opposition politician. “In our meeting with Mr. Doval, we discussed regional security and bilateral …

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View From India | The persisting Maldives challenge
10 months, 2 weeks ago

View From India | The persisting Maldives challenge

The Hindu  

The outcome of the second meeting of the India-Maldives High-level Core Group held on February 2, 2024, was an indication that the two sides are yet to fully concur on the question of Indian troops in the Maldives, and their possible removal before the March 15-deadline given by President Mohamed Muizzu. The Maldivian Foreign Ministry statement said: “Both sides agreed …

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Sri Lanka’s JVP-led alliance invited for talks in Delhi for the first time
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Sri Lanka’s JVP-led alliance invited for talks in Delhi for the first time

The Hindu  

The Indian government has invited a delegation led by Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of Sri Lanka’s leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, to New Delhi, in a significant outreach to the island nation’s most popular politician at the moment. This is the first time that the JVP leader, who helms the National People’s Power alliance, has received an official invitation from the …

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Sri Lanka Crisis Latest Updates Ranil Wickremesinghe Sajith Premadasa Four leaders In Fray President Post SLPP Anura Kumara Dissanayake Dullas Alahapperuma
2 years, 5 months ago

Sri Lanka Crisis Latest Updates Ranil Wickremesinghe Sajith Premadasa Four leaders In Fray President Post SLPP Anura Kumara Dissanayake Dullas Alahapperuma

ABP News  

New Delhi: Amid the ongoing political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka, acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa are among the four leaders who have joined the race to become the country's next President as the lawmakers met on Saturday to begin the process of choosing another president to succeed Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after facing unprecedented protests …

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