<p>The left-leaning National People’s Power swept the parliamentary polls in Sri Lanka on Thursday rising from the fringes as it bagged 107 of the 225 parliamentary seats from the earlier mere three-seat-share. </p>
<p>The NPP’s win comes just months after its chief Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a political outsider in a country dominated by dynast politics for decades, clinched the country’s top post in September. </p>
<p>The snap polls were called by Dissanayake after he dissolved the parliament and sought fresh a mandate owing to the minuscule seat share. </p>