Local council polls’ outcome would decide Govt’s future

Though election violence or violations of election laws are reported to be minimal, back-stabbing among the three main parties is known to be taking place in subtle ways before the February 10 election to 341 local councils. Pic by Indika Handuwala

By Our Political Editor-Sunday, February 04, 2018

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With just five days to go for the local polls, a joke doing the rounds on mobile phones this week is about an old American, a Russian and a Sri Lankan talking to God.

When will my country come out of the recession asked the American and god replied “a hundred years.” He cried saying “I will not live to see that day.” The Russian wanted to know “when will my country become prosperous?” He cried too lamenting he will not live to see that day when god replied“it would take fifty years.”

It was now the turn of the Sri Lankan. “When will my country become corruption free,” he asked. This time, the joke goes; god began to cry saying “I will not live to see that day.” The moral of the story, if there is one, is how sceptical even gods are when it comes to Sri Lanka and the suggestion that corruption at its high levels is an eternal affair for the country.

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