Yahapalana Government Archives

Franchise is the key Source:Island The government now has another problem to contend with, an unnerving one at that; it is troubled by the prospect of having to face an election, which it is scared stiff of. The Opposition is making the most of the SLPP’s fear of elections; it has gone into overdrive to pressure the government to conduct the much-delayed Local Government (LG) elections. It says the Election Commission (EC) is now in a position to hold the LG polls. The Opposition’s call for the LG polls has come while the UNHRC is cranking up pressure on the government to hold the Provincial Council (PC) elections, which have been postponed indefinitely. Curiously, not even the ardent proponents of devolution protested when the Yahapalana government amended the PC Elections Act, in 2017, to postpone the PC polls, which it was scared of facing. The TNA, which is calling for the PC ...

Redeeming the country-by Victor Ivan The Government should create a suitable platform for all parties to come together and have a common dialogue on the situation. If the Government is not prepared to do so, at least the Opposition must take the initiative, join hands with the Government, and embark on a pragmatic program to overcome this challenge Source:FT At present Sri Lanka lies in a pathetic state in which the cogwheels of the socio-political system, the economy and the State machinery itself have ceased to function due to extreme degeneration of all facets of the entire system. The attempt to gyrate the cogwheels by using the military has proved to be unsuccessful. A breakdown of this magnitude is very rare and does not usually occur in any country. When such a situation arises it is important that the entire institutional system is subjected to a systematic structural reform process to ...