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WICKREMESINGHE FACTOR

Editorial
The Pioneer
http://www.dailypioneer.com
Monday, August 24, 2015

India has more than one reason to cheer the appointment
of Mr Ranil Wickremesinghe as Shri Lanka's Prime
Minister. To begin with, Mr Wickremesinghe is perceived
to be pro-India. During his tenure as the stop-gap Prime
Minister before the recent parliamentary election, he had
given enough indications that he was in favour of
repairing the damage that had been caused to India-Sri
Lanka ties during the last months of President Mahinda
Rajapaksa's rule.

He had called for a review of the various high-profile
projects involving Chinese participation on the ground
that he wanted to tackle allegations of corruption in
them. But the message was clear: He did not favour the
overdrive that Mr Rajapaksa had launched to get the
Chinese in, at India's cost. We can believe that Prime
Minister Wickremesinghe will take more steps to re-
introduce warmth between New Delhi and Colombo,
especially since he will be working closely with another
pro-India figure, President Maithripala Sirisena,
although the two belong to rival political parties. The
other reason has to do with the Lankan Tamil issue.
Although the matter has been an internal affair of Shri
Lanka, it has impacted relations with India for the
obvious reason that the Tamil community there has an
affinity with its counterpart in India, especially in
Tamil Nadu. Therefore, New Delhi has been for decades
necessarily drawn into the controversy.

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