Speeding northwards through the highways of the west coast, veering inland to the central hills and emerging in the deep south ahead of the Presidential polls lay bare an array of new political tides and trends.
Several decades ago Lee Kuan Yew, the then Prime Minister of Singapore, described Sri Lanka’s elections as an auction of promises. That description is even more accurate today than in previous elections.
The intimidation and the pressure that Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake has reportedly been subjected to at the hands of certain elements in the government ranks is a downright disgrace.
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