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This was a poster or rather sentiments that appeared to be popular at the demonstration in Kollupitiya last week following President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to sack Ranil Wickremesinghe and appoint Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister.
Rauff Hakeem, Rishad Bathiudeen and Sampanthan appearing on the same podium with majority Sinhalese parliamentarians, declare that all that happened since President Sirisena’s premeditated coup is undemocratic and that the parliament should b
From the day President Maithripala Sirisena unseated Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to replace him with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the country is fast drifting towards anarchy and a dangerous situation is in the making. The statement
Around 2:00 pm on the afternoon of November 2, actor turned politician Ranjan Ramanayake went live on Facebook. He is an artiste, a popular personality at that, and when Facebook launched live, it was celebrities like Ranjan that were the stars.&nb
With the progress of time, man has become progressively selfish!!! It is time we started thinking in terms of WE not I, the selfishness of our time has reached gigantic proportions and the reason is that we prosper in our ignorance or we think we d
Siddhartha Gautama was one of the most pioneering thinkers who revolutionized the very manner in which man used to think, act and operate at mundane levels. Long before the Magna Carta or the American Constitution came into being, the Buddha told u
Today is the United Nations International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. In a statement to mark the event the UN says though the world has counted its war casualties in terms of dead and wounded sold
After a long and rather undue wait, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya yesterday announced that the arbitrary sacking of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and appointment of Mahinda Rajapaksa in his place as unconstitutional. Noting that it is the view of the
When Members elected to Parliament from one party crossover to another, for whatsoever reason, it is a violation of the mandate received at the hands of the voters, which they are honour and duty bound to protect.
Colombo, November 5: Crossovers from one party to another in Parliament have been a constant feature in Sri Lanka in recent years. They were endemic in India till the Constitution was amended by the 52nd Amendment in 1985 and by the 91st Amen
One of the objectives of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was to restrict powers of the President to dissolve parliament within four and-a-half years. Was that objective successfully achieved? My reading of the constitution is the opposite.&nbs
The greatest upheaval ever known since this country regained political independence occurred just a few days ago. The event of appointment of a new prime minister and members of a new cabinet sent shock waves among all concerned citizens of this coun
October 26, 2018 is a date that will be marked in the notorious political history of Sri Lanka. A country that has once dealt with insurrections, civil wars and minority clashes has now ended up in a confusing political crisis once again.
Maithripala Sirisena is not exactly a type of politician described as ‘charismatic’ or ‘revolutionary.’ But in the space of three and a half years he has pulled off two dramatic political reversals in the country’s elect
The power grab and subsequent events over the last ten days are but the culmination of a plan of action that Mahinda Rajapaksa put into place following his defeat at the Presidential and Parliamentary Elections of 2015.
The continuing or unfolding Political-cum-Constitutional drama, which commenced with President Sirisena’s abrupt appointment of Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister, even before letting the then sitting incumbent know of his dismissal....
On October 26, political confusion broke out in Sri Lanka. President Sirisena who had for months been carrying on a running battle with his Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, without a warning announced, out of the blues so-to-say, had appoin
At first I was a bit surprised to find that the English admonition, “Good fences make good neighbours” existed in many other languages. I shouldn’t have been taken aback. A moment’s reflection should have told me that fences a
Sri Lanka’s citizens are getting a bit jaded now in waiting for that politician with real leadership qualities to emerge and take charge of the nation. Even when there was a tussle for power within the UNP during the time Ranasinghe Premadasa..
Sri Lanka’s democratic process, which suffered a devastating blow last Friday, is likely to be on the reverse gear in the coming months and years. The pre-2015 regime, seems......
Political alliances are marriages of convenience. When nothing warrants them, they become a convenient front against a common enemy.
This is a moment for political action and this is a moment for a politics of paradox. Is there an old? Importantly, is there a new?
I being an Attorney-at-Law who appears on behalf of Animal SOS (ASOS) Lanka before the Court of Law in case of the said matter, it’s my duty to respond over the false allegations and misrepresentation of the....
Pity, it is no doubt. This country, more particularly the urban middle class that now goes berserk calling the removal of Ranil Wickremesinghe from the post of PM as....
Before Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in as the new Prime Minister on Friday evening, did President Maithripala Sirisena sack Ranil Wickremesinghe....
Yesterday, the United Nations marked World Cities Day to promote the international community’s interest in global urbanization, push forward cooperation among countries in meeting opportunities, addressing challenges of urbanization and contr
Disclaimer 1: Over the past three months I’ve written a series of articles under the title ‘Notes for a Manifesto’ seeking to inform those who are currently developing or intend to develop ‘plans for the country/people&rsquo
Sri Lanka’s political crisis gives us a window to view it in two ways. The first affords us the opportunity to see whether the country’s leader was strong to hold his nerve and quell the opposition forces out to destroy him. In this cou
President Maithripala Sirisena sprang a surprise last Friday (October 26) by dismissing UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe from the premiership and appointing his erstwhile colleague Mahinda Rajapaksa to the post. It led to a constitutiona
While Sri Lanka faces a political crisis, the United Nations on Friday marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists worldwide.
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