Amid a change of guard in Sri Lanka, many former Indian diplomats on Monday said the results of the presidential election in the island country were on expected lines and going forward, the two neighb

Colombo would not align itself with any ‘power camp’ in a geopolitical fight, the National People’s Power leader said.

The Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s victory and ascension to the presidency marks a significant shift in Sri Lanka’s political landscape, with effects on its relations with India. On September 23, 2024, he took an oath as the 9th Executive President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in the presence of Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya at the Presidential Secretariat.

Foreign policy in the neighbourhood turns out to be a sine curve, but that’s what engineers the constant recalibration and rejuvenation of relationship, writes former diplomat Anil Trigunayat in his exclusive Op-Ed on the impacts of the regime change in Sri Lanka on India.

India will also show a willingness to work with the new leader and expand bilateral ties, especially as it deals with an increasingly politically volatile neighborhood.

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“We don’t want Sri Lanka to be sandwiched, especially between China and India,” said Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the newly-elected President of Sri Lanka and leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in an interview with The Monocle ahead of the elections in the country.

Sri Lanka's leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake took office as president on Monday, promising change in the island nation long led by powerful political families which is emerging from its worst economic crisis in more than seven decades.

Sri Lankans elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as their new president on Sunday, putting faith in his pledge to fight corruption and bolster a fragile economic recovery following the South Asian nation’s worst financial crisis in decades.