A crisis of the âdeep state'
After the success of his dissident May Day rally that drew huge crowds to Kirulapone at the beginning of the week, former President
and Kurunegala District lawmaker Mahinda Rajapaksa was on the receiving end of a rude shock on Monday (2) morning.
Hundreds of buses had entered the capital Colombo from remote districts across the island carrying thousands of supporters eager to see the back of the Sirisena administration an