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The Hindu profiles on Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

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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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‘Need a change’: Sri Lanka’s leftist win sparks hopes, bridges old divides

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President Dissanayake’s party has won a two-thirds majority in parliament, including among Tamils and Muslims. Dissanayake’s National People’s Power won a landslide majority in Thursday’s parliamentary election, securing 159 seats in a house of 225 members – representing a comfortable two-thirds majority. They have shown they need a change from the old politics.” Vote for change According to political analyst …

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Sri Lanka Parliamentary Elections 2024: Dissanayake Aims to Convert Presidential Win into Legislative Power

The Hindu

Published : Nov 12, 2024 16:48 IST - 9 MINS READ Campaigning for the 10th parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka closed at midnight on November 11, with major political formations making fervent last-minute pitches to garner support from the 17 million voters. With many veterans, including former Presidents Ranil Wickremesinghe, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and Mahinda Rajapaksa, shying away from contesting, Sri …

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Sri Lanka has entered a new dawn with its new president. What does the diaspora think of Anura Dissanayake?

ABC

For decades, Sri Lankan politics has looked like a revolving door through which the same parties and families have come and gone. Unlike many of Sri Lanka's past presidents, Mr Dissanayake has no political lineage and is from the socialist National People's Power party which he founded in 2019. For some of Sri Lanka's younger generation the election result "was …

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3 months ago

IMF to begin talks with new Lanka government led by President Dissanayake

The Hindu

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday said it will discuss the timing of the next review of Sri Lanka’s loan programme and looks forward to working with the new government headed by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. “We look forward to working together with President Dissanayake and his team towards building on the hard-won gains that have helped put Sri Lanka …

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3 months ago

Sri Lanka's priority to be economic recovery

China Daily

Anura Kumara Dissanayake is sworn in as the ninth executive president of Sri Lanka at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo on Monday. XINHUA The top priorities of Sri Lanka's new president will be to boost economic recovery, reduce poverty and improve the quality of life for citizens, an expert says, as the weekend's national election came two years after the …

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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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Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Who is Sri Lanka’s new left-wing president?

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Sri Lanka’s new president reassures Modi over Chinese ships

The Hindu profiles on Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

‘Need a change’: Sri Lanka’s leftist win sparks hopes, bridges old divides

Sri Lanka Parliamentary Elections 2024: Dissanayake Aims to Convert Presidential Win into Legislative Power

Sri Lanka has entered a new dawn with its new president. What does the diaspora think of Anura Dissanayake?

IMF to begin talks with new Lanka government led by President Dissanayake

Sri Lanka's priority to be economic recovery

The Left turn in Sri Lanka

Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Who is Sri Lanka’s new left-wing president?