Vice President of India C P Radhakrishnan will visit Sri Lanka on April 19 and 20, a statement from the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday, referring to it as “the first bilateral visit by the Vice President of India to Sri Lanka.”
During his visit, Radhakrishnan will call on President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya, “as well as other dignitaries and Indian diaspora leaders,” the statement said, adding that the visit follows recent “high-level engagements between the two nations and will further reinforce the millenia-old people-to-people ties that bind India and Sri Lanka.”
Colombo-based political sources told The Hindu that the visiting Indian Vice President is also scheduled to meet opposition politicians, including those from political parties representing the Tamils from the north and east, as well as the Malaiyaha Tamils from the island’s hill country.
(Meera Srinivasan is The Hindu correspondent in Colombo)
Published on April 17, 2026