Friday, 7 October 2016

Will Sri Lanka find more takers in South Asia? (Padma Rao Sundarji, South Asia Monitor)

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is currently on his second visit to India within two years since the unlikely 'rainbow' coalition of his United National Party (UNP) and the faction of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) under President Maithripala Sirisena came to power in a stupendous election in January 2015. One of the earliest promises made by Wickremesinghe's government was to restore ties with India which, under the former government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, had sunk to their lowest levels.

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