Gurudawa

The JVP won the largest number of MPs in Sri Lanka for the first time in the 2004 general election, by winning 39 seats. The JVP contested the 2004 general election after forming the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) with...

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‘I ended up here because I failed to govern the country for 5 years. Now, two years later, I am talking as if nothing happened. The people are the ones who will change this system. If you do not achieve...

Upali Jayaweera, a second-tier leader of the JVP (Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna), rose to prominence in the party’s Central Committee after the assassination of Rohana Wijeweera. Following his arrest by the military, he confessed on March 6, 1990, at the Pallekele...

In the villages, there is a saying that people throw an iron piece to ward off lightning during rain. When the country was devastated by the Central Bank robbery and the Easter attacks, then-Prime Minister Ranil was seeking such an...

In the history of elections in Sri Lanka, there have been only two instances when a provincial council or local government election was held within a month after a national election like a presidential or general election. One instance was...

Israeli nationals have not only recently started visiting Sri Lanka; they have held high-ranking positions within the British colonial administration in the country. After Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948, D.S. Senanayake's government chose to establish relations with Israel, even...

The candidate Sajith Premadasa, who was defeated in the 2019 presidential election, received 41.99% of the votes, amounting to 5,564,239 votes. In this 2024 presidential election, the winning candidate, Anura Kumara, received 42.31% of the votes, totalling 5,740,179 votes. “So,...

Mrs. Bandaranaike intended for her son, Anura Bandaranaike, to succeed her as leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). However, SLFP members opposed this due to Anura’s anti-leftist stance. Between 1970 and 1977, Anura openly criticized Mrs Bandaranaike’s leftist...

"Ranasinghe Premadasa, a poor boy, rose to the pinnacle of politics dominated by the aristocracy through the urban labour movement and became the President. He was born in a slum area in Colombo, and his family came from an oppressed...