Left leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a big victory in the Sri Lankan presidential election.
Dissanayake is a supporter of Marxism and Leninism and it is believed that he will be inclined towards China. In such a situation, India may have to face a challenge from another neighbor.
But he has appeared serious about India’s security earlier also and he had said that he will not allow any tampering with India’s security.
Recently, anti-India wave has been seen in Bangladesh after the change of power. The new interim government supported by the army does not seem to be successful in establishing relations with India like before.
During the election campaign itself, Sri Lanka’s Dissanayake was talking about cancelling Adani’s project. However, Sri Lanka’s regime change is not as big a challenge for India as the political turmoil in Bangladesh.
India’s High Commissioner Santosh Jha was the first to congratulate the newly elected President Dissanayake. He said that countries with similar culture are committed to mutual cooperation and increasing the prosperity of both the countries.
On Monday, 55-year-old Dissanayake will take oath as President and will become the first leftist President of Sri Lanka. In the last election of 2019, his party got only 3 percent votes. However, this time he has won a big victory with 42.31 percent votes.
India believed that if Ranil Wickremesinghe or Premadasa wins, relations will be better. Their victory would make it easier for India on the security front in the Indian Ocean.
India had invited Dissanayake in February despite the anti-India stance of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party. Dissanayake’s popularity among the youth had increased significantly after the economic crisis in Sri Lanka. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and NSA Ajit Doval met him in New Delhi.
During his visit to India, Dissanayake visited the Amul plant in Gujarat. It was being said that Amul is planning to acquire several dairy companies in Sri Lanka.
India’s priority is to take care of the Indian-origin Tamil community living in Sri Lanka and to fully implement the 13th Amendment to the 1987 Constitution.
Apart from this, Indian fishermen should be treated more humanely. Apart from this, it is also important that Sri Lanka, under bilateral agreements with India, restricts the use of ports related to India’s interests to China.
Experts also say that Disanayake’s relations with China may be better. However, recently Disanayake had said that he would not allow his sea, land, airspace and ports to be used by any country that challenges India’s security.
He had also said that he would cancel Adani Group’s wind power project because it violates Sri Lanka’s energy sovereignty.
Disanayake had also said a big thing about China’s projects in front of Indian officials. He had said that there is a lack of transparency in many Chinese projects.
Corruption is rampant in Hambantota and Colombo Port projects. An official said that it seems that Dissanayake’s focus is on transparency and eliminating corruption. He is not in a mood to cancel any project. However, improving it is his priority.
Disanayake’s party has been opposing the 1987 India-Sri Lanka Accord. However, it is also true that apart from Premadasa, even Wickremesinghe was not in favour of fully implementing it. Disanayake has definitely said that he will make such changes in the constitution that will help in establishing peace in the future.
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