'Tis the season to be old self, Fa la la laa, laa laa laa

Thank god, Mr Ranil Wickramasinghe's old self is back. 

During the no-confidence motion week, he was behaving as a stranger. Usually, he ignores his party members and do not talk to them. However during last week, he was listening to all and sundry except Athuraiye Rathana thero. He was giving promises to everybody. Promising to re-structure the party and appoint a new leader. 

Telling the truth we were scared of that strange behavior. 

During the parliamentary debate on no-confidence motion, opposition MP Mr Wimal Weerawansa has warned his fellow UNP MPs. Mr Weerawansa told them that the although Mr Wickramasinghe is listening to the UNP MP's today, from tomorrow itself he will be his former self. True to Mr Weerawansa's prediction, thank god, old Mr Wickramasinghe is back in PMs seat. 

Prime minister has refused to heed to his backbenchers demands in getting the ministers who voted for the no-confidence motion, out of the cabinet. Mr Wickramasinghe has instructed those backbenchers to withdraw  the no-confidence against those "rouge" ministers. Instead of naming a new leader, he proceeded to appoint a twelve member leadership council (yes, just like the one he appointed few years back). Who is the new leader then? Who else, none other than Mr Wickramasinghe himself!

As the citizens of Sri Lanka, we are happy that Mr Wickramasinge is back to himself again. We look forward to see Mr Wickramasinghe staring a new scheme to rob the Central Bank. Perhaps this time, he could rob Employers Trust Fund too!

PS: It seems Mr Fowsi was lucky. Prime minister has kept the promises he gave to Mr Fowsi and allocated Rs 43,000,000.00, Yes, Rs Forty three million, to buy a new vehicle from Tax payers money. Congratulations Ela Fowsi!