What went wrong for the ‘rainbow coalition’
July 9, 2015, 12:00 pm
Rajiva Wijesinha was one of the main figures in the yahapalana coalition that overthrew President Mahinda Rajapaksa in January this year. Before former chief justice Sarath N.Silva began to speak up against the yahapalana government, Rajiva was the most prominent yahapalana intellectual to openly express his discontent at what the new government was doing. He was also one of the first to cross the floor of parliament. In this interview, he speaks to C. 