Sri Lanka Election Commission Chairman Discards BJP Expansion Claims

Sri Lankan Election Commission Chairman Nimal Punchihewa on February 15 discarded speculations concerning BJP's plans to instate a political unit in Sri Lanka. He asserted that electoral laws forbid external forces from conducting political operations in the island nation. Punchihewa's statement arrived after Tripura CM Biplab Kumar Deb claimed that the BJP was ambitioning political expansion into Sri Lanka and Nepal under the Atmanirbhar South Asia initiative.