With just 2 weeks left to polling day, there are obvious signs of severe strain in the UNP camp. Cynicism and lies seem to be their only weapons. Since my last analysis (available here), the UNP campaign has been unable to gain mainstream traction. Hence, their strategy has shifted, taking on a more desperate bent. Importantly, the campaign has lost ...
UPDATE1 Aug 1, 2015: Initial investigations by police reveal this was most likely an internal gang-fight between two groups of underworld working for different UNP candidates source. Ravi Karunanayake, of Sathosa and alleged Raj Rajaratnam money-laundering fame, blames “Mahinda’s terrorism” for a shooting that claims life of a UNP worker. “Its a terrorist attack , Rajapakse’s terrorism” – Ravi Karunanayaka ...
Ranil’s thirst for power is insatiable. He lost 29 elections in a row to date, but still won’t resign. Now he’s joining with the TNA. The TNA has been very clear in its manifesto. They want the merging of the Northern province and Eastern province. They want this merged entity to be named a State in a federalized Sri Lanka. ...
The “pokuru gammana” (පොකුරු ගමිමාන) initiative does not bode well for innocent villagers. Sri Lanka’s great strength is its thousands of villages scattered across the island. It is from this simple life that some of our greatest heroes and leaders have emerged. And it is the Sri Lankan village – with its paddy fields, reservoirs, and temples – that forms ...
Despite all the bluster, the UNP’s electoral prospects are terrible. Here’s why. The Sirisena-Ranil alliance has created Sri Lanka’s first ever police state. Attempts to delay the elections until Mahinda was neutralized – through assassination or phony “war crimes” charges – failed thanks to the greed of Ranil’s close friend Arjun Mahendran. The exposure of the greatest financial crime in ...
Mahinda Rajapaksa received a hero’s welcome on July 17, as he returned to front-line politics greeted by rapturous applause, undivided attention, and above all, unshaken party unity and loyalty. It was a sight to behold. Mahinda: a man of the people. From UPFA official Twitter page The thousands upon thousands of ordinary citizens, the host of party workers, the legion ...
Many expected Sirisena to deliver a second backstab on July 14. Instead, he committed an hour-long hara-kiri. Sirisena has been in big trouble for a long while. The actual turning point in his fortunes began on January 9, the day he became president. He had won the election on a series of lies, and sooner or later they were all ...
The last week’s events were unprecedented in Sri Lanka’s history. Never before in the Sinhalese civilization’s lengthy chronicle do we find such political manoeuvrings. The reasons for what transpired within the UPFA/SLFP grouping can be analysed later. For now, let’s see where we are. How it all began There may or may not have been a meeting between Sirisena and ...
As we approach 200 days of the “100 day regime” of “perfect governance,” we see Sirisena for the crude, conniving politician that he truly is. Let’s unravel the Sirisena web of lies. Maithripala Sirisena came onto the presidential stage in a manner so contrived that it looked scripted right out of the shadowy halls of the NGO dens of Colombo ...
Some of Maithripala Sirisena’s recent words and deeds have been so disturbing and so fundamentally anti-Sri Lankan that questions need to be raised about what exactly his motives are, and who exactly he is working for. Initially everyone thought his modus operandi was obsequiously sucking up to Ranil. But it looks like it is even worse than that. Recently, Sirisena ...
