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Watalappan and Amaraweera dreams  Former minister of Disaster Management, though he could not manage any disaster, threatened on a television that he can topple the government. The known fact about Mahinda Amaraweera is his servitude to his former boss Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brothers. This is the man who said that he has exploited enough for a few generations and his stomach was already full, and what he wanted more is Watalappan (some desserts). So he urged people to vote his boss to power to feed his greedy stomach with some watalappan and warned the voters not to bring the opposition to power as they could exploit public property in a manner worse than that of his clan did for the last 20 years. It is true that UPFA still has the majority in parliament. But he should know that there is a tug of war between UPFA coalitions and its main party SLFP. Therefore, SLFP cannot topple a government of its own unless its coalitions push it to do so. The other importan...

China needs not to worry about political change in Sri Lanka  This is a misleading article. The writer, either does not know the true facts behind the Chinese backed infrastructure development in Sri Lanka or he is worried about China becoming unpopular among ordinary Sri Lankans as China directly worked with a single family, and allowing them to rob out of Chinese funds working here. The ordinary people are compelled to pay this debt for generations to come. However, China should not worry about the defeat of one family - Rajapaksa. China can renegotiate with the new incumbent instead and continue their business and other investment because Sri Lankans well understand the economic potential of China. At the same time, the new administration will not be stooge to the West as Rajapaksa propagandists tried to convince the voters during recent election. Therefore, this sort of articles, written without sufficient research, would further disappoint Sri Lankans. They,...