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INDIAN FM MEETS POLITICAL HEADS BEFORE WINDING UP TOUR
INDIAN FM MEETS POLITICAL HEADS BEFORE WINDING UP TOUR
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Colombo (News 1st); External Affairs Minister of India Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar called on several political leaders in Sri Lanka prior to concluding his official visit to the country.
On Wednesday (06) Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa, separately.
Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Prime Minister Rajapaksa discussed strengthening sectors of mutual benefit.
The Opposition Leader had thanked the Indian External Affairs Minister for supporting the construction of houses during the tenure of the previous government.
Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 12:52 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Dec 31, Colombo: The Secretary General of Parliament Dhammika Dasanayake has announced that the first sitting of the 9th Parliament for the year 2021 will convene from the 5th of January to the 8th of January, as decided at the Committee on Parliamentary Business held yesterday (30).
The Committee on Parliamentary Business which was chaired by the Deputy Chairperson of Committees Angajan Ramanathan also decided to permit media to enter the Parliament premises for the purpose of covering Parliamentary proceedings. Accordingly, journalists will be allowed to enter the Parliament premises subjected to the guidelines set out in accordance with the COVID-19 health regulations.
by Uditha Devapriya
In the annals of horribilis, 2020 wasn’t just an annus horribilis. It was much more and much worse. Sri Lanka fared better than did many other countries, but in many respects it fared worse, owing largely if not mainly to rank incompetence. A virus cannot be eradicated, after all, on the strength of presidential power alone; if it did, the regime should have been able to contain the second wave much better than the first, having passed the 20th amendment right before the second wave began to peak. It could not.
Looking back I’d say that 2020 brought about an inevitable political paradigm shift, in both camps. Ranil Wickremesinghe may or may not have betrayed his elitist credentials when he called Maithripala Sirisena “a decision I don’t regret” (ironically right before the constitutional fracas of 2018), but the massive failures of the Sirisena-led yahapalana administration (real and perceived) didn’t merely push Ranil out, it propped up Sajith Prema
In the annals of horribilis, 2020 wasn’t just an annus horribilis. It was much more and much worse. Sri Lanka fared
better than many other countries, but in many respects it fared worse, owing largely if not mainly to rank incompetence. A virus cannot be eradicated, after all, on the strength of presidential power alone; if it did, the regime should have been able to contain the second wave much better than the first, having passed the 20th amendment right before the second wave began to peak. It could not.
Looking back I’d say that 2020 brought about an inevitable political paradigm shift, in both camps. Ranil Wickremesinghe may or may not have betrayed his elitist credentials when he called Maithripala Sirisena “a decision I don’t regret” (ironically right before the constitutional fracas of 2018), but the massive failures of the Sirisena-led Yahapalana administration (real and perceived) didn’t merely push Ranil out, it propped Sajith Premadasa up. Quoting Dayan Jay