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My dear PB, I thought I should write to you because you are in the news these days, what with asking public servants to donate a months’ salary or part of it towards the effort being made to defeat the coronavirus. After that, people tried to make fun of you, calling you ‘padi baagey’. How [...]
SLPP takes early lead in campaign preparation; others await SC ruling
The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP)-led ruling alliance has gone into high gear to prepare for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Like during the presidential election in November last year, the party’s office at Nelum Mawatha in Battaramulla is being geared. Charts are coming up on the walls and past poll records are being analysed. Discussions [...]
How nice to hold the whip hand
Things are getting really serious. Sometime last week I saw a headline in a local daily that appeared rather ominous. Police to crack the whip, it read. Cynics among you might well ask what is new in that. They would say the police have been doing so with increasing frequency and ferocity. So it is [...]
Elections Chief on June 20 date vows: ‘No polls over dead bodies’
Tomorrow the Supreme Court is set to take up several fundamental rights applications challenging the decision of the Election Commission to hold the postponed general elections on the 20th of June in the midst of a raging coronavirus conflagration which has kept a fear stricken populace locked behind closed doors under a two month long [...]
Pragmatic economic policies vital for economic development
Much of Sri Lanka’s economic revival and economic development from now onwards would depend on the willingness and capacity of the Government to adopt pragmatic economic policies. The need for pragmatic policies is especially important now when an economic recovery is needed in an inhospitable global economic environment. Wrong policies Regrettably, the current economic crisis [...]
Quickening the up-ending of the constitutional republic
Existential perils to the democratic, constitutional model on which the Sri Lankan Republic was constructed now quickening apace, does not even have the excitement of novelty to spark the imagination. Familiar patterns of militaristic governance There is nothing very special in the creeping militarisation of governance that we are witnessing. From increasing numbers of miltary [...]
Comments against LTTE: Sumanthiran under heavy fire in North
TNA leader Sampanthan defends party spokesman, says interviewhad ulterior motives China and US hail President’s handling of COVID-19 pandemic; Govt. focuses more attention now on economic recovery General Election likely to be held on July 18; five-judge SC bench hears petitions while CC chairman defends conduct of polls chief Just two weeks after its [...]
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