May Day in Colombo

If you want to have a perspective about the culture and evolution of Sri Lanka, it is essential for you to explore the festive facet of Colombo in Sri Lanka vibrant with socio-religious and political fervor. On one hand, you will get pageants of gorgeously decked elephants making a round of the city, on the other you will get the chance to experience May Day in Colombo, which is widely celebrated with its requisite social and political dictums. Thus, you would also get a feel of the socio-political development of the city itself during May Day.

Numerous parades and marches are organized across the city during May Day in Colombo by Trade Unions to commemorate the International Worker's Day or Labor Day through which the commemoration of social and economic achievements of the working class and labor movement is carried out.

Features of May Day in Colombo

  -   May Day in Colombo also offers an insight into the law and order of the city, which are specially emphasized and laid out because numerous rallies out carried out by the political parties.
  -   According to a report on TamilNet in 2003, soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and commandos of the Special Task Force were to be put on action in cases of emergency.
  -   This report also added that especially security measures would be planned out and traffic system would be drawn out to handle May Day in Colombo.
  -   Nearly 11 rallies were scheduled to be held and even liquor shops were closed to mark May Day in Colombo that year.
  -   According to that report, United Nation Front, Peoples Alliance and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna were also scheduled to hold their own rallies on May Day in Colombo that year in Colombo municipal grounds, Colombo Town hall and BRC grounds respectively.