The all-important question thus remains whether the DNA alone could garner wider public support and let it gain ... I also wish to tell President Mahinda Rajapaksa that people in the villages, whether ...

JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected as leader of the NPP also. The NPP General Secretary was Dr Abeysinghe. Dr ...

Mahinda Rajapaksa was often ... that even if Kumaratunga had forgiven Rajapaksa, she had not forgotten: he was handed the Fisheries Ministry. But Rajapaksa persevered within the SLFP, and set about ...

Campaigning at the General Elections has come to an end. So far, whether it be in the north, south, east or west of the ...

He is being challenged by Anura Kumara Dissanayake from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party and ... President Gotabaya ...

In the 2000s, as Sri Lanka under then President Mahinda Rajapaksa crushed the Tamil separatist movement, the JVP backed the ...

JVP’s Dissanayake has capitalised on the demise of the centre-Left. Mahinda Rajapaksa (president from 2005-15) was lionised ...

The northern vote should be examined against the backdrop of expulsion of the entire Muslim population from that province in ...

It clearly showed that there is no groundswell of support for NPP despite it emerging the winner ... is widely believed to ...

Sri Lanka votes for new parliament as President Dissanayake pushes for majority after securing only 42.3% in presidential ...

Dissanayake, whose pro-working class populist campaign won him youth support ... Later, Dissanayake and the JVP backed former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to militarily defeat the rebels in ...