Aragalaya activist Nuwan Bopage to contest polls

29 Jul, 2024

Aragalaya activist and lawyer Nuwan Bopage is to contest the upcoming Presidential elections.

Speaking to reporters, Monday, some of the activists said that they had collectively decided to back Bopage at the election.

Bopage will represent the ‘Alliance for People’s Struggle’ at the polls.

Nuwan Bopage represented a number of protesters who were arrested during the ‘Gota Go Home’ protests staged in Sri Lanka in 2022.

He was also detained by the military when President Ranil Wickremesinghe ordered a crackdown on the protest at Galle Face. (Colombo Gazette)

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