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Watching her back
President Kumaratunga’s controversial biography seems to have some ardent readers, one among them being TNA Parliamentarian M.K. Eelaventhan. So he couldn’t resist bringing it to the Legislature last week and quoting a section from it dealing with the death of her husband Vijaya Kumaratunga.

“The JVP threatened if I came to my husband’s funeral they would kill my children and I. It is the custom that I should have stayed with his body while it lay, prior to the funeral, but that was impossible. I could visit briefly because of security. But even then I was watching my back,” Mr.Eelaventhan quoted from the book comments attributed to the President. Many of the JVP members present at the time seemed more amused than worried about the contents of the book. Maybe the Alliance wouldn’t have come undone soon if she had continued to watch her back.

That Constitution!
During last week’s Parliamentary Group meeting of the UNP, its Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe had a word of thanks to the late President J.R. Jayewardene.
The reason - because of his Constitution the Supreme Court had upheld the sovereign right of the franchise of the people. And whoever said this was a dictatorial Constitution.

Banner war
Soon after the Supreme Court decision regarding the next Presidential polls, enthusiastic members of the UNP lead Jathika Sevaka Sangamaya (JSS) at the SLBC put up a large banner with the picture of the Party’s presidential candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe at the main entrance.

Its removal was swiftly ordered by Chairman Hudson Samarasinghe. This was done but it did not dissuade the JSS men who put up the banner once again. Once again orders were given to have it removed but so far they haven’t been carried out.

Seems the stage is being set for banner wars along with the poster wars that have already defaced many a wall, lamp post, tree, bus etc., etc.

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