External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will visit Colombo this week for the first high-level engagement with newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. The visit aims to reaffirm India's commitment to Sri Lanka amid concerns over potential shifts in foreign policy under the Marxist leadership.

New Delhi will be watching how Dissanayake and his party’s close ties with China impact the regional power balance

While the world is riveted by the victory of a Sinhala supremacist with working-class Marxist leanings in Sri Lanka’s presidential elections, displacing the 70-

India will also show a willingness to work with the new leader and expand bilateral ties, especially as it deals with an increasingly politically volatile neighborhood.

Sri Lankans will vote on Saturday for their next president, who will be key to deciding the future of reforms in a nation slowly emerging from worst financial crisis in decades.

During his Colombo visit, EAM Jaishankar will call on newly elected Sri Lanka President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who assumed office on September 23