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 …
July 26, 2023 07:34 pm | Updated October 03, 2023 12:52 am IST After high-stakes negotiations that started in April and two key meets in Patna and Bengaluru, 26 Opposition parties in the country, including two national and 24 regional parties, have managed to stitch together a grouping to fight the 2024 general elections against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National …
Thetalks on power devolution between Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Tamil legislators yielded no positive outcome, according to the Tamil National Alliance, the largest grouping of MPs from the island’s north and east. The Tamil National People’s Front, which has two MPs, stayed out of the talks that it said were “simply aimed at appeasing the international community”. After …
T he process of doing something all over again can be terrifying for some, especially for a minority group that had made some progress on its demands and was hopeful of an equitable future in a majoritiarian milieu. In his analysis of the Sri Lankan elections, Alan Keenan, senior consultant, International Crisis Group, said: “The explicitly pro-Sinhala and anti-minority rhetoric …
For the opposition parties and minority community, time has come to review their strategy and policies. The UNP has to return to drawing board and prepare for the parliamentary elections and also a new leadership. The Tamil National Alliance is now a shadow of its past and has to consider ways and means to remaining relevant in the present political …