President Under Pressure
Going by a recent report on a ‘behind the news’ segment on TV, PresidentSirisena has told the UPFA leaders that he is under tremendous pressure from the West and India. What Prime Minister Modi wants cannot be done but nor can we refrain from doing so, he is supposed to have said. He explained his advocacy of a national government which included the UNP by saying that it was an unavoidable answer to western pressure because Ranil Wickremesinghe and the UNP were the only ones who could talk to the West, interface with it and keep it at bay.
If this story has veracity—and it has yet to be denied—this Presidential disclosure tells us many things.
