“People's Rule: Two Years Strong – Progress for All” mass rally

A mass rally under the banner “People's Rule: Two Years Strong – Progress for All” was held in Nikaweratiya and Ibbagamuwa on Sunday 11 October 2026, as shared in Dasun Wijesekara's LinkedIn post the following day.

Public announcements before the event said President Anura Kumara Dissanayake was to address two NPP rallies that day, at 1 p.m. in Nikaweratiya and 3 p.m. in Ibbagamuwa, as part of the government's second-anniversary celebrations. The Nikaweratiya rally was to be broadcast live.

The two rallies belong to a wider series of public gatherings under the same theme, which the party planned across several districts from September. Earlier rallies in the series were announced for Kalutara on 6 September, a farmers' rally in Polonnaruwa on 12 September, Anuradhapura on 13 September, Matara on 20 September and Gampaha on 27 September. Press reports noted that the party later slowed the pace of the series.

Nikaweratiya and Ibbagamuwa are towns in the Kurunegala District of the North Western Province. The photographs from the post show a speaker at a podium, seated Buddhist monks, and large crowds gathered under covered grounds.

Speeches and attendance figures are not stated here: no post-event reports were found at the time of writing.