Dilrook Kannangara සියලු පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ IMF වැඩපිළිවෙල ඉදිරියට ගෙන යාමට තීරණය කර ඇත. එය අගය කල යුතුය. එහෙත් එක කණ්ඩායමක් පමණක් ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අන්තගාමී වී ඇත. එම කණ්ඩායම හිතන්නේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සහ ලාංකිකයන් ජීවත් විය යුත්තේ සහ මියයා යුත්තේ IMF හාමු වහන්සේ සඳහාම බවයි. මෙය වැරදි ආකල්පයකි. සියලු IMF වැඩපිළිවෙලවල් තිබු රටවල් IMF වැඩපිළිවෙල රටේ […]

Dilrook Kannangara JVP first entered parliament under Sri Lanka Progressive Front label in 1994 winning just 1% of the vote and 1 seat. However, within just 7 years, the JVP increased its percentage to 9%. That is a staggering 9-fold increase in votes percentage. It came at the expense of SLFP votes. At the last […]

Dilrook Kannangara This year marks 100 years of elections in Sri Lanka and what a fitting celebration it is as election excitement reaches fever pitch. As the most crucial election in Sri Lanka’s history draws near, the likely outcome of the election is becoming clearer. Although the deathmatch is between Ranil and Sajith to take […]

Dilrook Kannangara Ranil seems to assume that he is IMF’s sole representative! IMF has not appointed Ranil as their sole agent or spokesperson so he should stop acting like one. And Ranil is not the only party the IMF deals with. The IMF already held independent discussions with the JVP and the SJB where Ranil […]

Dilrook Kannangara Having considered about 13 suiters including Ranil for the prime minister post in May 2022, Gotabaya chose Ranil for the post on May 12, 2022. Since that day Ranil plotted to get rid of Gotabaya. For three months Ranil kept telling the people that the economy was bankrupt and that it cannot be […]

Dilrook Kannangara රනිල් අවුරුදු 47ක් දේශපාලනයේ සිටියි. ඔහුගේ ක්‍රියාමාර්ග විමර්ශනය කිරීමෙන් පැහැදිලි වන කරුණක් නම් ඔහුගේ සියලු සැලසුම් ඉතා කෙටි කාලීන බවයි. මේවා දිගු කාලීන ව්‍යසනයන්ය. 1982 චන්දය ඔහුගේ පළමු අද-මැදුරේ-හෙට-පැදුරේ සැලසුමයි. තම මාමාගේ චන්ද වැඩපිළිවෙලට MK සුනිල් පෙරේරා (ගෝනවල සුනිල්) අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය බව පවසා එකල ජනාධිපති ලවා ඔහුට වැලිකඩ බන්ධනාගාරයෙන් සමාව ලබා දුන්නේය. කැලණිය රජමහා […]

Dilrook Kannangara Comparing Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is wrong. The level of violence and ethnic composition are totally different in the two nations. Sri Lanka was economically bankrupt, had given up repaying loans and had 2 years and 1 quarter of negative economic growth when Aragalaya commenced. On the other hand, the Bangladeshi economy was […]

Dilrook Kannangara Since he entered active politics almost 50 years ago, Ranil only had very short-term plans targeting elections. These plans subsequently turned sour and caused long term destruction. He simply bolted when their disastrous long-term consequences emerged. Catastrophic austerity measures have been agreed to with the IMF that will decimate the economies of the […]

Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka is doomed under Ranil’s foolish gimmicks that are kept hidden from locals. However, an influential expert group has pointed out the real horror of Sri Lanka’s so-called debt restructure. All that Ranil has done is pile up more and more debt since late 2022 and postponed the repayment of loans and […]

Dilrook Kannangara Since introducing the current constitution in 1977, no less than 21 constitutional amendments have been made so far. Three (3) more attempts were made that ended in failure and another attempt by the name of the 22 Amendment is currently underway. None of these was for the benefit of the nation or the […]

Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka’s constitution has lost its gloss, credibility, supremacy and worth as it is regularly changed to suit politicians in power. In fact, the 47-year-old constitution has changed 21 times already and the 22 attempt is now being made. That is 22 changes within 47 years. No country has such a worthless piece […]

Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka is fast coming to its end. Having struggled a miserable 75 years of poverty, wars, insurrections, riots, bankruptcy, etc. it is now on its last legs. It will succumb to India within the next few decades if not years. Although it is resisted by some, there are supporters. India is home […]

Dilrook Kannangara The titanic sank over a hundred years ago and when it was sinking the captain ordered its orchestra to play. Ranil’s planned celebrations for June 26 is the same. Ranil is fooling people that he rescued the country from bankruptcy. In reality, he made matters worse. Why people don’t feel the pain is […]

Dilrook Kannangara Getting rid of a Prime Minister, Economic Affairs Minister and a President wasn’t the greatest achievement of Aragalaya 2022. In addition to these unprecedented wins, it also split the largest political party in the country into five (5) pieces. These five pieces are, Basil’s group, Lanza’s group, Sirisena’s group (and its own splinter […]

Dilrook Kannangara When a politician said he will fully implement 13A a group of political supporters took to the streets. Little that they knew that their favorite politicians also have promised full implementation of 13A. The SLPP leader promised to go even beyond 13A and implement 13 Plus. All parties elected to parliament (SLPP, SJB, […]

Dilrook Kannangara The Economic Transformation Bill (ETB) was presented to the Sri Lankan parliament on May 22 by President and is one of the most backward and irrational bills ever presented to Sri Lanka parliament. Instead of creating economic conditions that achieves stated objectives, this bill puts the cart before the donkey. This will lead […]

Dilrook Kannangara Rajapaksas are enjoying their last few months in the limelight and in power. They won’t be back in power for another decade or more. Mahinda, Gota, Basil and Chamal will not live to see the day when they will be in the saddle of power again (if it happens). At least as a […]

Dilrook Kannangara The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on May 19 arrested four Sri Lankans on suspicion of links to ISIS terrorism. According to the Gujarat Director General of Police, Mohammad Nusrat (35), Mohammad Faarukh (35), Mohammad Nafran (27) and Mohammad Rasdeen (43), have divulged to investigators that they were earlier associated with the banned Sri […]

Dilrook Kannangara As elections draw near political jokers are coming out of the woodwork. Jokes require no logic. Add to that most Sri Lankans have short memories. Using both, shameless and highly corrupt politicians try to fool the people yet again. On April 12, 2022 Sri Lanka declared bankruptcy. By then Gotabaya was the president […]

Dilrook Kannangara Every political party in Sri Lanka has an Indian specialist. Managing India is crucially important for all political parties in the island. SLPP has Basil, UNP has Sagala, TNA, SLMC, CWC have a few of them, JVP has Vijitha and SJB has its own. Compared to all of them, SJB’s India expert is […]

දිල්රූක් කන්නන්ගර චන්දය ලං වනවිට විවිධ විදේශ කුමන්ත්‍රණ, ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට තර්ජන, සිංහල ජාතියට තර්ජන, බුදු දහමට තර්ජන, මහජන ආරක්ෂාවට තර්ජන සහ සංස්කෘතියට ඇති තර්ජන හුවා දැක්වීම සාමාන්‍ය දෙයකි. මෙය හුදු චන්ද මගඩියක් පමණි. ඒ සම්බන්ධ සත්‍යතා කිහිපයකි. 1.  විදේශ කුමන්ත්‍රණ, ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට තර්ජන, සිංහල ජාතියට තර්ජන, බුදු දහමට තර්ජන, මහජන ආරක්ෂාවට තර්ජන සහ සංස්කෘතියට ඇති […]

Dilrook Kannangara Will this be the end of the IMF program? Before this SL had 16 IMF programs – all failed half way through the program! Bond holders own 50% of foreign loans and these are the loans with highest interest rates and administration fees. A debt restructure without them is like a wedding without […]

Dilrook Kannangara The next presidential election will be decided by religious minorities – Christians, Hindus and Muslims. This is because the majority creed is seriously divided between various political parties. There is no leader capable of uniting Buddhists or at least 60% of them. At the same time there are no strong minority leaders either […]

Dilrook Kannangara A debate rages over if the SLPP must contest the presidential election or not. Contesting elections only to win them is a disastrous approach. Win or lose, the SLPP must contest the election and remain relevant. Otherwise, it will permanently slip from the top slot and will never be able to get up […]

Dilrook Kannangara The last Lok Sabha election of India was held between 11 April 2019 and 19 May 2019 (and just one delayed electorate a few months later). As always it was a staggered election. Election was held over 7 days but counting votes was done after all had voted. Comparing constituencies where the election […]

Dilrook Kannangara Victoria Nuland quietly retired recently after multiple failures around the world, particularly in Ukraine. Her services” were never appreciated by the countries that received them! Except Sri Lanka under President Gotabaya. And the timing of the book release could not have been better. On 22 March 2022, Victoria Nuland, the Under Secretary for […]

Dilrook Kannangara The book by Gotabaya has too many contradictions. I will explain one major contradiction which should not have been there given the military service of him. No army commander in the world, certainly not in Sri Lanka, can act on own instructions. Instructions must come from the president who is the commander in […]

Dilrook Kannangara Contrary to popular views, China is set to lose a war against USA and its proxies. Despite having the largest arsenal of weapons of war, they are untested in battlefield making them fail in a real war as China has not engaged in any serious war. This is one main reason why USA, […]

Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka Air Force is taxpayer-funded. Therefore, it must equitably distribute any charitable donations to all. That means all provinces are equal. However, unfortunately, the recent charitable activities only benefit one ethnic group and one province in the North which is discriminatory and tribal-minded. This includes distributing school books and equipment to the […]

Dilrook Kannangara Chinese and Indian development models are completely different. Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, etc. achieved success thanks to the Chinese development model. Indian development model does not have that feature. Therefore, Sri Lanka cannot become India’s Hong Kong. Teaming up with India only leads to worse poverty, debt, economic disaster and unemployment for Sri […]