Sunday, 10 Sep 2023
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By K.V. Tissa
The statue of slain Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike on Galle Face Green must be feeling lonely, betrayed and left-behind. His was the statue that was erected outside the old Parliament lawn, signifying true freedom, unlike those of many national leaders, from colonial precursors to his contemporaries in the first Parliament of Independent Ceylon, all nudging for...
This presidential election is the first major election of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP). It is worth understanding what it stands for and promises on the one hand, and what one may reasonably expect on the other. For this purpose, today’s column tries to place the SLPP in a theoretical framework that may help us discern what it believes in and acts upon. The...
The past week was as eventful as any during an election time. Minister Sajith Premadasa became the presidential candidate of the UNF, ending a long-drawn struggle and allowing new dynamics to emerge within his own and the opposite camp, including the fringe candidates. Labour union actions, protests, strikes and quasi hunger strikes seem to have been weaponised to an...
This article is not about the Executive Presidency or why it is good or bad for Sri Lanka. Instead, it is about how last week’s discussion of the key issue that has dominated political discourse for the better part of 25 years has reshaped the political landscape of Sri Lanka on the cusp of a presidential election.
Earlier this week, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, in an...
The politics of Sri Lanka have undergone a great shift within the last two decades. This article is about this great paradigm shift in the political landscape of Sri Lanka that has taken shape since the late 1990s, galvanized after the victory of the armed conflict in 2009, and of which the major manifestation was January 8, 2015. Today, despite the claim by the Sri Lanka...