Social media has usurped the traditional media’s influence in Sri Lankan politics, particularly after the Aragalaya – and ...

Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa Sunday renounced his membership in the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and joined the newly formed SLPP ahead of a court challenge to his controversial ...

Former SLPP Minister S.M. Chandrasena has switched his allegiance to ‘Sarvajana Balaya.’ The one-time Mahinda Rajapaksa ...

That was in 1967, when their father D.A. Rajapaksa passed away. Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) leader Sirima Bandaranaike wanted Chamal to continue DA's political work and nurse the constituency of ...

Mr Rajapaksa's resignation paves the way for the country to begin the process of electing a new president. Sri Lanka's speaker of parliament, Mahinda Yapa ... the governing party has a majority ...

By Tisaranee Gunasekera (first published in Himal Southasian) (continued from last week) Mahinda’s victory (in 2005) marked ...

Hambantota District MP D.V. Chanaka has been appointed as the new National Organiser of the party replacing MP Namal ...

Colombo: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the front runner in the presidential poll scheduled for next month, was on Friday endorsed by a grand coalition of over 30 political parties and ...

Opposition parties have so far refused to do so and have also called on the president to quit. Mahinda Rajapaksa's resignation marks an ignominious change in fortune for a man who for years was ...

Colombo, December 20 (Daily Mirror) - MP D.V. Chanaka has been appointed as the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) new ...

Thus the symbol of the Rajapaksa family's commitment to Ruhunu's peasantry was maintained throughout. Maintaining the political base of Hambantota for three generations provides testimony of their ...

First it voted out, its war-winning President -Mahinda Rajapaksa ... and his triumph at the parliamentary poll, the old political parties and even the newer versions of the same old parties ...