UNP to form a National Government with Chandrika?
November 5, 2005Rajpal Abeynayake has the following paragraph in his column this Sunday in the Sunday Times. This is while Irudina, the UNP’s unofficial Sinhala paper (and interestingly not its unofficial English paper The Sunday Leader!) has the headline about a meeting between 12 Ministers and Ranil to form a caretaker national government.
“Privately, some SLFP diehards have resurrected Wickremesinghe in their minds and Wickremesinghe is using his image as the achiever of improbable success - the maligned ceasefire — to say he will have one more improbable success, a national government with an ex-President holding office. He is sprouting more grey hairs almost to prove that he is the wizard; the smiling assassin.
…… the Mahinda coalition, which drew the induced response of “national government'’ from Ranil, something Chandrika Kumaratunga is deftly playing with.”
