Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is looking to consolidate his party’s power in Thursday’s parliamentary ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, following his election win, seeks economic consolidation and anti-corruption measures ...

Sri Lanka votes to elect a new parliament this week in a snap general election called by its Marxist-leaning president who ...

Sri Lanka's new leftist leader has drawn strong support from an unlikely source as he seeks to expand his three parliamentary ...

Dissanayake, an outsider of the family parties that have dominated Sri Lankan politics for decades, swept to power promising ...

In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and ...

Tisaranee Gunasekara “The future is cloth waiting to be cut.” Seamus Heaney (The Burial at Thebes) The point had been made often enough. Without a Gotabaya Rajapaksa presidency, there wouldn’t have ...

The names of JVP stalwarts such as K.D. Lalkantha, Tilvin Silva, Vijitha Herath, Sunil Handunneththi, Bimal Ratnayake and Anura Kumara Dissanayake were bandied about as potential successors.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake known popularly as Anura and AKD became the new JVP leader What was remarkable about the leadership change was the smooth , non-confrontational manner in which it was done ...

In a historic election, Sri Lankans have chosen Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxist-Leninist politician, to lead their crisis-hit country. While it is not very usual for political paradigm shifts ...

This does not mean that the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake (often referred to by his initials, AKD) of the National People’s Power (NPP) reflected a political consensus. At first look ...