The general view seems to be that Anura Kumara ... Muslim voters in the Eastern Province. The main Muslim organizations appear to have joined the camp of Sajith Premadasa, but an aragalaya of young ...

By the end of the JVP leader’s religious farce, JVP’s Anura had turned from an atheist to a TV Buddhist, a TV Hindu, a TV Catholic and to a TV Muslim. Not bad for ... JVP-NPP Presidential candidate ...

By endorsing the Opposition leader, the ITAK joins the main parties of the Muslim and Malaiyaha (Indian origin ... the Provincial Councils to the new Parliament. NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake ...

The JVP/NPP had not sought direct minority ethnicity party support for their leader and presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Instead the party has appealed to the Tamil and Muslim ...

Mr. Doval also met opposition figures Sajith Premadasa and Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who are the incumbent Mr. Wickremesinghe’s chief challengers in the September 21 contest — that will see ...

Analysts predict the race will narrow to Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Ranil Wickremesinghe and Sajith Premadasa, each offering ...

While the SLMC and ACMC are caught up in the Ranil-Sajith divide, realities on ground indicate that a sizeable number of Muslims will support the JVP/NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the ...

Spike in rejections comes amid reckoning over immigration Border guards turned away more than 3,700 people per month on average in 2024 More visitor visa applications refused than approved some ...

The serious contenders, such as President Ranil Wickremesinghe, former Minister Sajith Premadasa, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna’s (JVP) Anura Kumara Dissanayake ... another Tamil and Muslim town in the ...

The real contest is between three men: Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sajith Premadasa, leader of the opposition SJB and Anura Kumara Dissanayake representing the ... the ultimate losers will be Tamils.” ...

NPP leader and presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake first proposed this increase in January 2023. He also said at the time that an NPP government would cap progressive taxation at a maximum ...