Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe: Hail the new sawdust filled martyr in town

Sacked minister now says he was ashamed to be in the Cabinet: The question is why did he remain so long enveloped in shame?

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends and country. In Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe’s case it wasn’t his life that he was prepared to lay down but the ministerial positions he held; and which he, with disdain, declared as but a trifle – one he could and would easily ‘shuffle off from his mortal coil’ in the nation’s interest, with the same ease as a moulting snake in the grass, and ‘in the ecdysis blue’, sloughs its seasonal skin.

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