Will Sajith- Namal combination will be a chellenge to JVP-NPP government? • Sri Lanka Brief

Will Sajith- Namal combination will be a chellenge to JVP-NPP government? • Sri Lanka Brief

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka. “There’s no sorrier sight than an unpopular populist” goes the old political science joke. As an old political scientist, I’d say that’s even truer of an unpopular “left populist”. The Deep South, ‘Ruhuna’ is the JVP’s cradle. You can hardly get deeper south than Angunakolapelessa in Tangalle, Hambantota district, rice-growing territory. On the day that President Anura Kumara Dissanayake flew to Beijing, oddly enough witho…