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By our Political Editor
On November 5, loyalists of Sri Lanka’s second oldest political party will take a stand at the Sugathadasa Indoor stadium in Colombo, to resist the takeover of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) by the Rajapaksa family led Podujana Peramuna ahead of a crucial presidential election. If Gotabaya Rajapaksa wins the election on November 16, his victory will sound the SLFP’s...
The past week will go down in the annals of Sri Lankan presidential history, for the sheer disruptiveness that caused chaos and trepidation in the campaign of a main political party.
The SLPP was the first to name its presidential hopeful, taking the proverbial bull by its horns on August 11, more than a month before the Elections Commission declared the poll officially...
The searches for presidential candidate in both major parties, this year, are marked by a curious insurgent phenomenon. The former Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa was formally anointed as the SLPP presidential hopeful on August 11, but for over a year, the Gotabaya faction of the SLPP has been mobilising support for his presidential bid. This...
Exactly a week from today, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) is set to hold a huge rally in the central city of Kandy, where expectations are that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa will formally take over the reins of the fledgling political party that swept the February 2018 local authorities election. August 11 is also when the SLPP rank and file strongly believe...
Who will be our presidential candidate? This is the question on the minds of the rank and file of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), or ‘Pohottuwa’ party, that has, since the recent constitutional crisis quietly shed its earlier moniker ‘the Joint Opposition’.
It is no secret that many senior leaders of the movement whose last names, not least the residents of No....
By our Political Editor
Reports that selected media personnel had been given payoffs to the tune of Rs 150,000 to skew reporting about Duminda Silva’s...
After the Viyath Maga 2018 Convention, Nalaka Godahewa former SEC Chairman and fervent loyalist of the ex-Defence Secretary...