The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) resumed activities at its district office in Yakkala on April 23, ending a seven-month shutdown triggered by a disputed occupation that the Gampaha Magistrate’s Court has since declared unlawful.
The Salmal Uyana office, along Kirindiwela Road in Gampaha District, was seized on September 2, 2025 by a group the FSP says was linked to the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). The party’s Administrative Secretary and affiliated trade unions responded by filing a private plaint under Section 66 of the Primary Courts Procedure Act, naming 20 respondents including the JVP General Secretary.
After months of hearings, Gampaha Additional Magistrate Shilani Perera ruled earlier in March that legal possession of the premises belonged to the FSP and its affiliated trade unions, and that the September 2025 removal of party members had been unlawful. The court initially handed temporary custody to police before confirming the FSP’s right to occupy the building.
District members gathered at the office on April 23 to mark the resumption of political work. The FSP, a 2012 splinter from the JVP, positions itself to the left of the governing coalition and has been increasingly vocal on accountability and energy-policy issues as its former parent party runs the state.
The dispute has become a flashpoint in the broader tension between the FSP and the JVP-led National People’s Power government. It remains a recurring thread of intra-left friction and is now one of the few instances in which a Sri Lankan court has adjudicated a physical property dispute between two organised left-wing parties.
Source: Newswire
