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The JVP also won a record breaking 61.56% of the total vote, overtaking the previous record of 60.33% won by the UPFA in 2010. The JVP won the most seats in the Jaffna District, thus making it the first non-Tamil political party to win this district. [82] Altogether, the JVP won 21 out of 22 electoral districts, and 152 constituencies. [83]
Baskaran Kandiah is a Sri Lankan businessman who is the co-founder and Director of Lebara Group, a European telecoms company with operations in six countries.He is also the Chairman of London Tamil Media, the holding company of IBC Tamil, a popular Tamil TV channel based in London.He is also the owner of ReeCha Organic Farm.
News Tamil 24x7 is a Tamil-language news channel based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Launched on January 23, 2022, by SPLUS Media Private Limited, the channel focuses on providing news, discussions, and reports in the Tamil language. The channel uses the tagline "Meiporul Kanbathu Arivu" (Knowledge is seeing reality).
Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 17 August 2015, ten months ahead of schedule, to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 15th Parliament. [1] [2] [3] [4]The United National Party (UNP) led United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) won 106 seats, an increase of 46 since the 2010 election, but failed to secure a majority in Parliament. [5]
Patabendi Don Jinadasa Nandasiri Wijeweera (Sinhala: පටබැඳි දොන් ජිනදාස නන්දසිරි විජෙවීර; 14 July 1943 – 13 November 1989), better known as Rohana Wijeweera, was a Sri Lankan Marxist–Leninist political activist, revolutionary, and founder of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP; transl.
Sellapperumage Saman Piyasiri Fernando (23 March 1958 – 29 December 1989: Sinhala: සමන් පියසිරි ප්රනාන්දු: nom de guerre: Keerthi Vijayabahu), was the military wing leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna during the 1987-89 insurrection in Sri Lanka, the JVP's military wing also known as Deshapremi Janatha Viyaparaya (DJV). [1]
The 1987–1989 JVP insurrection, also known as the 1988–1989 revolt or the JVP troubles, was an armed revolt in Sri Lanka, led by the Marxist–Leninist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, against the Government of Sri Lanka. The insurrection, like the previous one in 1971, was unsuccessful.
The 1971 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) insurrection (also known as the 1971 Revolt) was the first of two unsuccessful armed revolts conducted by the communist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) against the socialist United Front Government of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) under Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike. The revolt began on 5 April 1971 and ...