Channel News Asia reviews Sri Lankan Presidential Election

Hop, Step and Jump with click to http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/video/unexpected-competition/1522508.html …. 10 December 2014

An attempt to stay on in office that hasn’t gone quite to plan. Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa called for snap elections, asking voters to give him an unprecedented third term. But he’s now facing a stronger than expected competition. Has the president made a miscalculation?

ANSWER as ADDENDUM; … not if his astrologer and horoscope’s guidance was on the button. OR if the deities at Thirupathi have any say in Lanka?

MR puja in India

MR + wife at THIRUPAHI

 

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