Ranil can win too
Stop complaining about Ranil's defeats
It
is customary for his detractors to chide Ranil Wickremesinghe on the
number of electoral defeats that the UNP has suffered during his tenure
as leader of the party. The numbers themselves are inflated. Each PC
election is counted as one and if that logic is used then the number of
electorates/districts lost at every general election and presidential
election could swell the number of defeats several hundreds. He's just
lost a three general elections, two presidential elections and a few
local government and provincial council elections. But what's all that
compared to the string of losses that Shyam Babu Subudhi can and does
brag about? The 78 year old Homeopathy doctor from Berhampur, Odissa
has stood in every Indian parliamentary election since 1962 and lost
everyone. He's not done yet.
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The proof that Mahinda wants
Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya has vowed that the victory of
any elected candidate would be overturned if he or she is proven to have
violated election laws. Was Deshapriya holed up in his office from the
day the PCs were dissolved until the results were released? Did he not have
access to the media? Did he not check news on the internet? 'The
Nation', for example, carried 'proof beyond a shadow of doubt' that laws had
indeed been violated. Will he or won't he act?
That Leadership Council and this Leadership Council
Sri Lanka won the T-20 World Cup. The official captain, Dinesh
Chandimal was dropped. The stand-in captain, Lasith Malinga, strode to
the middle for the toss, but thereafter it was not he but a leadership council
of sorts that handled the campaign. There was Mahela, Kumar, Dilshan,
Matthews and Malinga himself. Together they scripted a win against the team
favoured to go home with the silverware, India. So why can't the UNP do
the same? Well, there was one ingredient that favoured the cricketers:
team-spirit. Does the UNP know anything about the term 'team'?
Tilvin's confession
Tilvin Silva, General of the JVP, made a public statement. He said that
this time the JVP has come forward with the blessings of the people.
Implied here is that all this time the JVP didn't have the blessings of the
people. Yes, the JVP has come a long way from pretending that it was
representing the people to representing the people.
The Sri Lankan vote on the Geneva vote
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