Anura Kumara is the Member of Parliament for Colombo district seat. He also participated in the 2019 presidential elections.
Presidential elections will take place on Saturday in Sri Lanka. According to the latest poll, National People’s Power (NPP) presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake is leading the race. He is considered pro-China. Anura promised that after winning, he would cancel Adani’s project.
Besides Anura, there are three other major candidates in the running. Opposition leader Sajit Premadasa is in second place in the poll. Current President Ranil Wickremesinghe is behind him in third place. Namal Rajapaksa, son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, is also running in this race. The survey also shows that his chances of winning are low.
According to media reports, the economic crisis that hit Sri Lanka two years ago is still fresh in people’s minds. This is the reason why the country’s largest family, the Rajapaksa, seems out of the race for two decades.
Anura was known for her opposition to India, maintaining increased friendship Anura Kumara Dissanayake is a leader of the left-wing Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). He is the presidential candidate of the NPP alliance. According to the South China Morning Post, the JVP party is known for its opposition to India. In the 1980s, India decided to send peacekeeping forces to fight the LTTE in Sri Lanka. Then, JVP opposed it.
In recent years, JVP has changed its anti-India stance. However, Anura sparked a new controversy by making a statement against the Indian company Adani before the elections. The JVP leader recently promised to cancel the Adani group’s wind project in Sri Lanka if he wins the September 21 presidential election.
Anura says the Adani project poses a threat to Sri Lanka’s energy sovereignty. Adani Group signed an agreement with the Sri Lankan government this year to develop a wind power plant. For this, the company will invest $442 million (around 367 crores).
Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s popularity increased significantly due to the historic mass movement that followed the severe recession in Sri Lanka.
Anura became popular among young people by making a statement against corruption There has been a huge rise in the popularity of Anura Dissanayake and NPP over the last four years. Sri Lankans have high expectations from the NPP in terms of economic improvement and social equality because it has never been in power before and therefore people trust it more.
Anura Kumar Dissanayake is very popular among young people. Another main reason for the growing popularity of the NPP is its promise to fight corruption. Anura promises to free Sri Lanka from corruption in every campaign. Young people believe that corruption is the main reason for the deterioration of the economic situation in the country.
The party also worked on strong international relations. China and India are two major economic partners of Sri Lanka. The party visited China in December 2023 and met with senior leaders of the Chinese Communist Party.
Similarly, an NPP delegation visited India in February 2024 and met senior Indian officials, including Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.
Anura visited India in February 2024. During this time, he met Foreign Minister Jaishankar.
Ranil Wickramasinghe is running as an independent candidate. Ranil Wickremesinghe is running in the upcoming presidential election as an independent candidate. He had resigned from Sri Lanka’s right-wing United Nationalist Party.
Wickremesinghe appears to be referring to the political and economic stability achieved during his two-year term. He says the current government has achieved major economic successes, such as reducing inflation.
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