National instability amidst power games

The countrywide Local Government elections last week were meant to elect representatives at the grassroots but they caused not just a ‘Gamperaliya’, which Martin Wickramasinghe’s famous 1944 Sinhala novel depicted about the break-up of village life, but a near ‘aandu-peraliya’ or break-up of the Government. The impact of the newly formed Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna [...]

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