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With strategies being finalised for the upcoming elections, Prime Minister and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is seen explaining the party’s plans at the 72nd convention held at Sirikotha on Thursday – the day after former President Mahinda Rajapaksa came in an open-roof SUV to join the Joint Opposition’s Janabalaya protest organised mainly by his son Namal.
Pix by M.A. Pushpakumara and Priyantha Wickramarachchi

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This land belongs to both people and elephants

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Pick of the Pix

Renovation activities ‘archived’

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