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- As Sri Lanka’s Parliament votes for a new President ,some sections of the aragalaya have sent out the signal that they will not accept a leader who bats for the status quo.
About Aragalaya
- It is a Sinhalese word for “struggle”.
- It is being used widely to describe the daily gathering of people at Colombo that began with the demand that Gotabaya resign as President and make way for a new dispensation, even “a new system”.
- In its essential meaning, aragalaya also captures the struggle of individual Sri Lankans to find food, fuel and medicines on a daily basis, bringing them all together in a “janatha aragalaya” — a people’s struggle.
- It has been mostly leaderless, though some individuals have spoken for the group on occasion.
- It also used social media to relay its messages.
Source:IE
