Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's leftist coalition has won a landslide victory in the country snap parliamentary polls.Dissanayake-led National People's Power (NPP) coalition won at least 137 seats in the 225-member parliament after securing around 62 percent of the vote in ballots counted so far,

In the first major political test for President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's NPP, Sri Lanka on Thursday headed to elect a new parliament. Back in September, the ruling party failed to secure 50 percent of the vote in the presidential elections.

Sri Lanka's National People's Power (NPP) party, led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, on Friday, secured a majority in the parliamentary snap elections. According to the Election Commission of Sri Lanka's website,