S.Akurugoda As per a news item that appeared in The Island of 12 .02.2024 titled ‘ SLPP MPs not consulted on ECTA, alleges government member’, MP Sarath Weerasekerais is urging President Ranil Wickremesinghe not to exploit the continuing political, economic and social crisis to advance his agenda.  https://island.lk/slpp-mps-not-consulted-on-etca-alleges-govt-member/. The SLPP MP said that the two […]

S. Akurugoda As per a news item appeared in The Island dated 2023/04/27, while launching ‘Nine: The Hidden Story’ to make the public aware as to how Gotabaya Rajapaksa was unconstitutionally removed, National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa named US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland as the architect of Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s ouster […]

Sangadasa Akurugoda As per the media reports, President Wickremesinghe reiterated his intention to fully implement the controversial 13th Amendment to the Constitution at the Thai Pongal celebrations, in Jaffna, on January 15 and again during the party leaders’ meeting at the Presidential Secretariat. According to above reports, the Cabinet is in favor of the full […]

Sangadasa Akurugoda Sri Lanka is facing an unprecedented economic crisis, since independence, due to the depletion of foreign exchange reserves. Meanwhile, the Resolution against Sri Lanka titled ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’ was passed at the UNHCR few days ago.  The resolution against Sri Lanka, as usual, was proposed by a group […]

Sangadasa Akurugoda Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) Parliament has passed new legislation to have tough punishments for protesters the state government says wish to wreak “economic chaos” on Sydney. Under legislation, people could be fined up to $22,000 and/or jailed for a maximum of two years for protesting illegally on public roads, rail lines, tunnels, bridges and industrial estates. […]

Sangadasa Akurugoda Answering the last question raised by the interviewer at a live televised conversation with Prof. Ajith Dissanayake  under the ‘’Big Question’’ program of Sri Lanka Rupavahini dated 24th May 2002 (https://youtu.be/s73PKlWj4cg) , Prof. Dissanayake quite correctly hinted who should be behind the current turmoil  in Sri Lanka. He sighted Rukada Natya (Puppet dramas) […]

S. Akurugoda A leading news item appeared in the Divaina dated 08 February 2022, under the title (translated to English) The people must stand up against strikes – Dr Rukshan Bellana” has quite rightly exposed the hidden agenda of the strikes are being carried out by some trade unions affiliated to political parties (https://divaina.lk/ මේ-වර්ජනවලට-එරෙහිව-ජනතාව/) […]

Sangadasa Akurugoda US President Joe Biden’s much-advertised ‘Summit for Democracy’ held in early December, is an example of how the champions of so-called democratic world misuse the name of ‘Democracy’ to promote their geo-political interest. As pointed out in an article appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, the composition of the summit reflects a combination […]

Sangadasa Akurugoda According to media reports, while addressing at the SLPPs 5th National Convention, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said the SLPP was duty bound to preserve the unity among its coalition allies who had fought for the same cause. Recalling the sacrifices made by those who contributed towards the SLPP’s historic victory, the PM said, […]

Sangadasa Akurugoda According to media reports, while addressing a ceremony at the Sri Lanka Army’s 72nd Anniversary event at the Gajaba Regiment Headquarters in Anuradhapura President Gotabaya Rajapaksa assured that action would be taken to amend the Constitution and introduce a new Electoral System to the people as promised and urged the all Sri Lankans […]

සංගදාස අකුරුගොඩ 2021 අගෝස්තු 22   පලවූ ඉරිදා දිවයින පුවත්පතේ ‘ආණ්ඩුවට ගහන්න රුපියල් කෝටි 85ක් එයි’ පුවතින්, දේශපාලන පක්ෂ හා වෘත්තීය සමිති කිහිපයකට, ජනප්‍රිය හිමිනමකට සහ මාධ්‍ය කණ්ඩායමක් වෙත රජය අපහසුතාවට පත් කිරීමට කටයුතු කිරීම සඳහා විදේශ සංවිධානයක් විසින් රුපියල් කෝටි 85ක පමණ මුදලක් රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධාන හරහා මෙරටට ලබාදී ඇතැයි විශ්වාසදායක ආරංචි මාර්ගයකින්  ලැබී ඇති […]

Sangadasa Akurugoda As per a main news item appeared in ‘Divaina’ dated August 22, 2021, a foreign organisation has already given  Rs 850 millions, via a NGO, to some political parties and trade unions etc to embarrassed the current government. The news item revealed how this money has been distributed among the various recipients, including […]

Sangadasa Akurugoda The second wave of Corvid-19 pandemic is spreading fast throughout the world including Sri Lanka. Unlike the rest of the world, all most all opposition parties in Sri Lanka appear to be critical on almost every measure taken by the government in the control of the pandemic including the vaccination role undertaken by […]

Sangadasa Akurugoda As per media reports, US Embassy officials led by Ambassador Alaina B. Teplitz held discussions with SLMC leader Rauff Hakeem and earlier with TNA leader R. Sampanthan at the latter’s residence, where the focus was on the proposed new Constitution, post-war reconciliation efforts, devolution of power, rule of law, Prevention of Terrorism Act […]

S. AKURUGODA As per the media reports, the Indian High Commission has quoted Indian High Commissioner Gopal Bagley as having told a bunch of local politicians led by R. Sampanthan, who recognized the LTTE as the sole representative of the Tamil speaking people and promoted its terrorism for three decades in Sri Lanka, that India […]

S. AKURUGOA As per the media reports, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), under a special team, has been tasked with investigating those who are misleading the public by spreading false propaganda on social media. Police Spokesman DIG Rohana has said it is an offence punishable under Section 98 of the Police Ordinance, that if anyone […]

S.AKURUGODA As per the main news item that appeared in The Island dated 9/06/2021 under the title ‘Covid time bonanza: Luxury SUVs for MPs coming, after all!’, the government was not in a position to cancel the order placed for the import of luxury vehicles for the 225 MPs as the opening of Letters of […]

S. Akurugoda As per a news item appeared in Divaina dated 1 June 2021  (https://divaina.com/daily/index.php/puwath-2/59203-2021-05-31-03-16), the Working  Committee of UNP , May 2021, has unanimously decided  that party leader Ranil Wickramesinghe enter Parliament through its only National List seat  and the party leader has reacted positively.  As per the website of The International Democratic Union […]

S. Akurugoda I remember the days before 1956, when the official language of the country was English.  Most of the Sinhala schools in villages had classes up to 8th standard and those who wanted to do higher studies in English had to go to collages in the main cities.   All most all the government officials […]

එස්. අකුරුගොඩ මාධ්‍ය වාර්තාවලට අනුව, හැකි ඉක්මනින් පළාත් සභා මැතිවරණය පැවැත්වීමේ ක්‍රියාවලිය වේගවත් කරන ලෙස අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මැතිවරණ කොමිසමේ අලුතින් පත් කරන ලද සාමාජිකයින්ට උපදෙස් දී තිබේ. කොළඹ විජේරාම මාවතේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ නිල නිවසේදී පැවති රැස්වීමකදී මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාවේ සාමාජිකයින්ට මේ බව දැනුම් දී තිබේ. මීට මාස කිහිපයකට පෙර ඉන්දීය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය නරේන්ද්‍ර […]

S. Akurugoda According to media reports Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has given instructions to the newly-appointed members of the Elections Commission to speed up the process to hold Provincial Council elections as early as possible. This was conveyed to the Elections Commission members during a meeting held at Mahinda Rajapaksa’s official residence at Wijerama Mawatha […]

සංගදාස අකුරුගොඩ එක්සත් ජනපද රාජ්‍ය ලේකම් මයිකල් පොම්පියෝ පසුගිය අඟහරුවාදා කොළඹට පැමිණියේ ඉන්දීය නායකයන් සමඟ සාකච්ඡා කර ඉන්දියාව සමඟ ගිවිසුමක් අත්සන් කිරීමෙන් පසුව ය. පසුගිය ඔක්තෝම්බර්  මස 9 වන දින ඉහළ පෙළේ චීන දූත පිරිසක් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා හමුව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සමෘද්ධිය සඳහා චීනය සිය කැපවීම යළිත් අවධාරණය කළ අනතුරුව මෙම සංචාරය සිදුවිය. ඇතැම් […]

S. Akurugoda According to the news item appeared in The Island under the heading ‘Address Tamils aspirations within united Sri Lanka, and implement 13th Amendment’ dated 28th September 2020, Indian Prime Minister  Narendra Modi has urged Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa  to carry forward the process of reconciliation with the implementation of the Thirteenth Amendment to […]

S. AKURUGODA According to the disclosure of Foreign Secretary Admiral Jayanath Colombage to the media, the government is to appoint one time Minister Milinda Moragoda, as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner of Cabinet rank to India and, once such status is afforded, Mr. Moragoda will be able to interact with the leaders of both the countries […]

S. Akurugoda I refer to the two articles of Kalyananda Tiranagama, Executive Director, Lawyers for Human Rights and Development, under the titles Is Sinhala the Official Language of Sri Lanka” and   How Premadasa turned the Official Language Policy upside down” appeared in The Island dated 28th and 29th respectively. The articles quoting typical examples […]

සoගදාස අකුරුගොඩ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් 225 දෙනාම දියවන්නා වැවට විසිකල යුතුයයි සමහරුන් පවසනන බවත්, එසේ කළහොත්,  පරිසරය පමනක් නොව කැළණි ගඟද දූෂණය වියහැකි බැව් එක්සත් ජාතික පකෂයේ නායක, හිටපු අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිoහ පසුගිය දිනෙක බියගම පැවති රැස්වීමක සිනාසෙමින් පැවසූ බැව් වාර්තාවේ. වරක් තොප්පිගල,  කොළඹ දිස්ත්‍රික්කයටත් වඩා විශාල කැලයක් බවත්,  එය අත්පත් කර ගැනීම නිෂ්එල ක්‍රියාවක් බවත්, […]

S .Akurugoda As per media reports, several Fundamental Rights (FR) petitions were filed at the Supreme Court,  challenging the decision of the President to dissolve Parliament, on March 2, and the decision by the Elections Commission to reschedule elections, on June 20, amidst the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, Executive Director of the Centre […]

 S. Akurugoda According to the latest media reports, ethnic violence in India’s capital has left more than 40 dead and hundreds injured after a Hindu nationalist rampage, stoked by the rhetoric of Narendra Modi’s populist government. Violence has been a stain on India’s history since partition in 1947 when Pakistan was formed as a separate […]

S. Akurugoda Foreign-funded NGOs had influenced our education system in subtle ways and an expeditious investigation will be carried out into the ideas being put into the minds of schoolchildren through school text books, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said at the National Dhamma School Convention and Awards Ceremony held at Irattaperiyakulam in Vavuniya few days ago. […]

S. Akurugoda On 16th December 2019, soon after a face-to-face meeting of Swiss Ambassador Hanspeter Mock with Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapakse, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) has issued a statement to the media criticizing lack of due process in the case against their local employee who is detained (after a court ruling) […]