INDIA HAS STAKE IN SRI LANKA ELECTIONS
PRESIDENT SIRISENA’S HANDS NEED TO BE STRENGTHENED
2015-06-30 14:58
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Sri Lanka president Maithripala Sirisena has dissolved parliament ten months ahead of schedule and called for general elections on August 17. Early elections became inevitable in view of the strange situation in which “the Government was in the Opposition and the Opposition was in the Government” as a wag put it succinctly. Sirisena won the presidential elections in January this year, by defeating Mahinda Rajapaksa, Now, Sirisena is the president but the Parliament is dominated by the opposition loyal to Rajapaksa.