Their narrative is that when Mahinda Rajapaksa failed, Gotabaya Rajapaksa was unveiled, and when he failed, the Government is attempting to pull another Rajapaksa from under the hat. It’s basic contour is that Mahinda Rajapaksa failed politically, which forced the family to pull another Rajapaksa – Gotabaya, now President – from their bag of tricks. This storyline is built up on a single plank – the story of then President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s defeat in 2015. Which is, that Mahinda Rajapaksa was the first Rajapaksa failure…No, he is the first Rajapaksa success and so far the only Rajapaksa success, because the story of Gotabaya Rajapaksa is still being written – which makes it by all accounts an unfinished chapter. The Opposition’s greatest miscalculation seems to be in its underestimation of the real force behind the Rajapaksa political drama – Percy Mahinda Rajapaksa, the consummate politician.

Source: The Nation June 29, 2021 17:48 UTC