PM Modi visit Sri Lanka agreement on defense matters India big jolt to China through mahasagar policy

India sri lanka relations: Earlier this month of Prime Minister Narendra Modi (April 6, 2025) went on a three -day visit to Sri Lanka. During this time, there were many agreements between India and Sri Lanka regarding defense matters. Because of these agreements, President Anura Kumar Disanayake’s domestic critics are trying to make it a political issue.

Perhaps it was not a coincidence, exactly 54 years and 1 day before the signing of the MoU (April 5, 1971), the political party Vimukti Pararamuna (JVP), the political party of Disanayake, launched Sri Lankan’s first armed revolt against Indian expansion with the slogan of motherland or death. The JVP is a political party running on the ideas of the Marxist-Leninist. The party was involved in another armed rebellion against the then government in Colombo during 1987–89.

Disanayake reached Sri Lankan Parliament for the first time in 2000
As a representative of JVP, Disanayake entered the Sri Lankan Parliament for the first time in 2000. He has been the main voice of the party in Parliament for the last 20 years. In 2019, Disanayake formed an alliance called National People’s Power (NPP), which included JVP as a major constituent and twenty other political parties, trade unions and social groups.

Last year, Disinayak was elected President of Sri Lanka as NPP leader. After SLFP and UNP, he became the first person to win the election as the leader of the third party. However, when a memorandum of agreement was being signed within the Secretariat in Colombo on 6 April, a faction was protesting against Indian expansion outside the nearby Fort railway station.

Sri Lanka is important for China
This agreement is reached at a time when China is also planning to expand in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is also very important for China, because it wants to dominate the Indian Ocean region (IOR) as part of its string of pearl strategy, which is a matter of concern for India. Sri Lanka leasing Hambantota port for 99 years is part of this strategy.

India adopted ‘ocean’ policy
New Delhi’s strategy towards Colombo shows mutual and overall progress for security and development in PM Modi’s vision (ocean) areas, which he announced on 12 March in Mauritius. The ocean approach is based on the Sagar (security and development for all in the region) policy, which PM Modi first announced during his visit to Mauritius in 2015.

PM Modi has traveled 4 times Sri Lanka
PM Modi had said that we have adopted the ocean wicked for the stability and prosperity of this entire region. Today, while taking this forward, I would like to say that our approach to the global South will move beyond the ocean, which means mutual and overall progress for safety and development in areas. He said that the new approach will emphasize business for development, capacity building for sustainable development and mutual security for shared future. It is important that this was PM Modi’s fourth visit to Sri Lanka and this time he spent three days in Sri Lanka.

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