Sri Lanka: Rajapaksa’s New Year Resolution and Course Correction for Yahapalanaya

While Maithripala Sirisena is one of the finest leaders that Sri Lanka has ever picked, his role at the beginning was feeble, particularly facing the general elections in August 2015. Otherwise, many of the Rajapaksa clowns could have been avoided entering Parliament.

by Laksiri Fernando-Jan 3, 2017

(January 3, 2017, Sydney, Sri Lanka Guardian) People make New Year resolutions on good things but not on bad ones. But there are exceptions like Mahinda Rajapaksa. He has very clearly told the foreign correspondents that he will definitely bring down this government in the year 2017 (Asian Mirror, 29 December). A split within the SLFP is no concern for him and, according to the report, he does not believe that a split would help the UNP. This must be what his Astrologer has told him!

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