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Making political capital
Politicians rushing to gain advantage of the performance of our sportsmen and women have not been uncommon in Sri Lanka.

This time it has been the Sandanaya or the UPFA which has been trying to capitalize on national hero Muttiah Muralitharan's performance.

On Murali’s arrival in the country the UPFA moved to plaster the walls with a poster reading; 'Murali oba dinuweth ratai, apa dinawanneth ratai' (Murali you made the country victorious, we are also making the country victorious).

Ratnasiri laments
Many would have thought that former Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake was a happy man at being assigned the important portfolios of Public Security, Law and Order and Deputy Defence, but at the ceremony to assume duties at the Defence Ministry he was lamenting that unlike his ministerial colleagues he had no jobs to offer.

'Other ministers can appoint their supporters to corporations and institutions under them, but I can only invite them to join the Army', the Minister quipped.

Pot calling kettle black
A JVP member of the Katana Pradeshiya Sabha Wimalsena Silva put forward a proposal to express the displeasure of the Pradeshiya Sabha members at the conduct of the members of the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) who he said showed open support for a set of Eelamist Tamil Parliamentarians by voting with them to elect the new Speaker to Parliament.

Most of the other Pradeshiya Sabha members who spoke in support of the proposal also conveniently forgot to mention anything about the peace overtures the UPFA government has been making to the LTTE and its rush to resume the peace talks from where the UNF left off.

Not looking good for pix?
The shutterbugs who usually have difficulties in covering Presidential events again this week were kept kicking their heels for nearly three hours to be told that they would not be permitted to cover the event.

The event was Norway's special peace envoy Erik Solheim calling on President Chandrika Kumaratunga.

Many of them were surprised why they were deprived of the coverage, but only to be told that the President was not in a photogenic mood.

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