Senaka Weeraratna Justice for Animals and Nature Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. We remember with appreciativeness your active participation at a meeting held at the Open University premises in January 2020, convened & presided by Dr. Dileepa Witharana – an academic with compassion for the voiceless living beings, with the intention of mapping out a […]

Courtesy The Daily News United National Party (UNP) Chairman Vajira Abeywardena stated yesterday that, for the first time, the people in the North have shown unprecedented trust in a party from the South, which he views as a positive development. This is a very special occasion in the election history of the country. The people […]

Excerpt from Hiru News In the 2024 Parliamentary Election, the National People’s Power (NPP) launched its campaign under the theme “Clean the Parliament,” securing 159 out of the total parliamentary seats. Among these, 157 MPs who were not in the previous parliament have been newly elected, with a significant majority of them being fresh faces. […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් 2024 පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයේදී පාර්ලිමේන්තුව සුද්ද කරමු” යන තේමාව මූලික කරගනිමින් ජාතික ජන බලවේගය සිය මැතිවරණ කටයුතු ආරම්භ කළ අතර ඒ අනුව සමස්ත පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මන්ත්‍රී ආසන 159ක් හිමි කරගැනීමට සමත් වුණා. එම ආසන 159 අතුරින් ගියවර පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ නොසිටි මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් 157 දෙනෙකු මෙවර පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට තේරි පත් වී ඇති අතර එම පිරිස අතරින් අතිශය […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Nineteen candidates from the National People’s Power (NPP) and two from the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) have been elected to Parliament this time. The elected NPP Members of Parliament are:• Muthumenike Rathwatte (Digamadulla)• Ambiga Samuel (Badulla)• Nilanti Kottahachchi (Kalutara)• Oshani Umanga (Kalutara)• Dr. Kaushalya Ariyarathne (Colombo)• Samanmalee Gunasinghe (Colombo)• Dr. Harini […]

KELUM BANDARA  Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) has sent an official letter to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and  the National People’s Power (NPP), congratulating them on their resounding and historic victory in the recent parliamentary elections. In the letter, the CTC extended heartfelt congratulations on behalf of Tamil Canadians, acknowledging this landmark […]

Courtesy Adaderana The leader of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), former President Mahinda Rajapaksa claims that the party received the exact number of votes they had expected. Speaking to the media today (16), he expressed that the victory of the National People’s Power (NPP) is a positive development, noting that freshers should be given […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo District has seen a profound shift in voter dynamics in the 2024 General Election, with the leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Sajith Premadasa suffering a significant decline in support. Premadasa, who garnered an impressive 305,744 votes in the 2020 parliamentary election, managed only 145,611 votes this time—marking a loss […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Commissioner General of Elections Saman Sri Rathnayake states that there has been a significant reduction by 10% of the voter turnout in 2024 General Election, in comparison with Sri Lanka’s Presidential Election which was held in September 21. The Elections Commissioner General also confirmed that 5% of the ballots casted have been […]

Courtesy Adaderana Ambika Samuel, the newly elected female representative to Parliament, has expressed confidence in the potential of the youth in plantation community and beyond to take an active role in politics.  Speaking about her journey into politics, Samuel, the first female Tamil MP to have been elected through a major political party from the […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 16: In the November 14 Sri Lankan parliamentary elections, the National Peoples’ Power (NPP) swept the Sinhala-dominated areas of the island, as predicted by many. The Sinhalas are the majority community in Sri Lanka and the NPP had the reputation of being a Sinhala nationalist party. What came as […]