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Wigneswaran willing to run for President in 2024

By globalpoliticsnews on December 28, 2023

By Dinasena Ratugamage in The Island, Dec 28, 2023Jaffna District MP C.V. Wigneswaran has said he is willing to contest the next presidential election next year. Retired Supreme Court Justice Wigneswaran, elected on the Tamil People’s National Alliance (Thamizh Makkal Tesiya Kootani) ticket, told the Jaffna-based media that he would contest the presidential poll if all Tamil political parties reached a consensus on his candidature. Wigneswaran served as the Chief Minister of the Northern Provincial…

Worshippers of terror

By globalpoliticsnews on November 17, 2023

Edit inThe Island, Nov 17, 2023Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has eclipsed most other crucial issues, especially relentless attacks on the people’s democratic rights and freedoms. A group of academics has, in a letter published on the opposite page, condemned one such incident. Human rights lawyer, Swasthika Arulingam, was recently turned away from a lecture she was scheduled to deliver at the University of Jaffna because some student groups forced the university authorities not to allow…

Northern fishermen give Prez two-week ultimatum

By globalpoliticsnews on February 27, 2023

by Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Feb 27, 2023While handing over a petition to President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Northern Fishermen’s Associations yesterday (26) gave a two-week ultimatum to the President to resolve their issues with regard to the decision taken to permit small vessels of Indian Fishermen to fish in the Northern seas, failing which, the fishermen threatened to hold a massive protest in the Northern Province with the participation 2,000 fishermen from all four districts,…