💙President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's visit to Delhi at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will happen only after November this year, Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath said on Tuesday.
🍸 “We will discuss dates for the visit only after we form the new government,” Herath told reporters here.
🍨Voting for the parliamentary election is to take place on November 14, almost 10 months ahead of the schedule.
Dissanayake was elected on September 21.
𒉰External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar became the first foreign dignitary to meet Dissanayake after the presidential polls. He extended the invitation to Dissanayake from the Indian prime minister.
♛Earlier in February this year, Dissanayake visited Delhi, as a leader of opposition, for a formal visit, first such by any leader of the Marxist JVP (Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (People's Liberation Front).
﷽The JVP, which Dissanayake heads since 2014, had run a bloody anti-India movement in Sri Lanka during 1987-90. The party had held that the 1987 Indo-Lanka Accord which came as Indian intervention to solve Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority demand for political autonomy was a sell out.
