Monday, June 29, 2009 
There we were only last week saying that President Rajapaksa or the GoSL has not blinked under the constant international pressure in the aftermath of the war and the present plight of the IDP’s. But ‘blink’ they did for the most unlikely of reasons. An astrologer in Chandrasiri Bandara at that.
Not even the masters of political strategy Samaraweera, SB or the Alahaperumas could have pulled this rabbit from the hat. Are the UNP and Ranil W. onto a new lifeline? In the most ridiculous of scenarios of Rathnasiri W as President and Ranil as PM. How naïve is that?
So with October just 4 months away, President Rajapaksa who was talked of as a King in waiting and a second Presidency to be anointed sans elections, would be now unceremoniously removed from office. For the sheer audacity and imagination of this announcement, the UNP must be congratulated. Surely they are really scraping the bottom of the barrel to capture the imagination of the people.
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