Politics: For the first time in Sri Lanka, three former presidents withdraw from the polls due to fear of defeat

After the presidential election in Sri Lanka, preparations for the parliamentary elections have begun. Anura Dissanayake's party, which won a landslide victory in the presidential election, is leading the other parties in all the surveys. An interesting situation has arisen in the parliamentary elections to be held on 14th November. This time it has happened that no ex-president is in the parliamentary election fray. This time three former presidents – Ranil Wickremesinghe, Mahinda Rajapaksa and Maithripala Srisena are not contesting the elections. As many as 20 big faces, including three former presidents, are no longer in the fray after the withdrawal of nominations. These leaders are seeing their defeat against Anura. On the other hand, after becoming the president, Anura announced that the tenure of former presidents will be investigated. At that time, all three former presidents withdrew from the election field to avoid the investigation.

The Rajapaksa family's dominance in Sri Lankan politics is now over After this parliamentary election, the Rajapakse family's dominance in Sri Lankan politics will end. This is the same Rajapakse family that once held sway in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan politics revolved around Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Each candidate of the Rajapaksa family won each election by a huge margin based on the majority of Sinhalese voters. But, today the situation is so bad that Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa cannot even contest the election due to the huge opposition of the people. Somehow Mahinda Rajapakse's son Namal Rajapakse also dared to contest the presidential election, but he faced a humiliating defeat. Namal Rajapaksa, son of Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Minister of Sports and Youth, received only 3% of the votes in Sri Lanka's presidential election. Colombo-based political commentator Jaydev Uyangoda told BBC Hindi last year that Sri Lanka was previously dominated by political families like the Senanayake, Jayawardene and Bandaranaike, but the Rajapaksa family has touched new heights of nepotism.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Amarasooriya will remain in power, not a strong candidate from the opposition After the victory, President Disnayake appointed Harini Amarasuriya as the Prime Minister. According to Sri Lanka's parliamentary system, after the presidential election, the MPs who win the parliamentary elections elect the PM. Anura's NPP party can win more than 150 MPs in Parliament with 225 MPs. In such a situation, only Harini will remain on the post of Prime Minister. It was earlier believed that opposition MPs could challenge him.

Popular among the leftist Anura youth, he was elected President by his vote Anura won the presidential election this time because of the young voters. He promised employment and education to the youth. He got more than 60 percent of youth votes. In such a situation they have to maintain the trust of the youth at any cost. Anura has promised to provide employment to more than 50 thousand youth in a year.