DIS & DAT
A Bad New YearIt has been a bad New Year for President Mahinda Rajapaksa
and his administration.
The New Year holidays commenced for the Rajapaksa administration with the UN experts panel on Sri Lanka handing over its report to the Sri Lankan Mission in New York on the 12th at 12.15 pm (NY time) to be precise.
The report dampened the holiday spirit of the government.
However, the Time poll on the most influential persons in the world was reported by the state media as a New Year “gift” for the President.
Rajapaksa reached up to the fourth slot in the list through online voting.
Nevertheless, the President’s “gift” seemed to have been taken back when his name was not included in the final list prepared by the Time editorial board
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