May Fools Day

According to self appointed SLFP spokesman Dilan Perera, that failed Badulla politician, who managed to creep into parliament through the national list, the main objective of holding the SLFP May Day rally at the Getambe Mahanama grounds in Kandy is to convince party leader Maithripala Sirisena that he is the president of the country.

For JO leader Mahinda Rajapaksa it’s a day to show people power. He called on the people to bring the Government to its knees by thronging in their thousands to the Galle Face Green on May Day where the Joint Opposition is scheduled to hold its May Day Rally.

Not to be outdone the UPFA Secretary Mahinda Amaraweera said a total of 2,000 buses had been reserved to transport SLFP supporters to the party’s May Day rally in Kandy. “We believe that hundreds of thousands of SLFP supporters will join with us at Getambe, This year the rally will break last year’s record,” he boasted. They never learn, do they? Like April 1st gives license to all pranksters to make fools of their fellow comrades, the 1st of May has given liberty to all political parties in Lanka to take the public for a ride. But in their bid to make the rest of the nation believe that superiority of numbers who are brought by busloads to their respective rallies after coaxing them with a lunch packet and a bottle of arrack, purely to show the nation that the masses are with them, they little realise that the joke is on them; and that unwittingly they have become the true May Fools