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Home » Columns » Focus on RightsNo tectonic shift in ‘state land being vested in the Republic’
President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s repeated claim, (pronounced with appropriate gravitas most recently to Al Jazeera), is that Sri Lanka does not exhibit authoritarian or dictatorial tendencies as it holds regular elections at which his government is comfortably elected into power. Unitary nature of the State never disputed Predictably, the recent elections to the Northern Provincial Council [...]