Tag: Political Analysis

From 1977 to 1994, the Bandaranaikes and the Rajapaksas of the SLFP could not topple the UNP government. Even the ...

When President Ranasinghe Premadasa first carried out a Cabinet reshuffle in 1990, he never imagined that this reshuffle would become ...

In a small corner of the third page of the Divaina newspaper in 1992, a photo appeared that went largely ...

If not for former Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawala and Ranil Wickremesinghe’s father, Esmond Wickremesinghe, Anura Kumara would not have ...

Mr. Wickramasinghe, answer the accusations against you. Sixty thousand deaths, deaths in Bataland, children buried at Suriyakande in Embilipitiya, death ...

It was N.M. Colvin who called J.R . Jayawardene ‘Naki Naria’ or Old Fox. Later even the foreign media used ...

Former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva once remarked, "If it weren't for me, Mahinda would be in jail today." This ...

Premadasa Mobilized the Village for the UNP and Mahinda to SLFP Premadasa orchestrated a remarkable shift in village politics, aligning ...

Following the setback of the 2000 general elections, the revolt against UNP leader Ranil marked a significant upheaval within the ...

When the parliament was dissolved for the general election in 1977, the then-opposition leader J.R. Jayawardena brought a proposal to ...