Wimal: Has the exodus begun when soon there will be none?
Spare a thought this Sunday morn for the plight that has befallen Wimal Weerawansa as he ponders what international conspiracy has brought about his own down fall.
Many years and moons before he had left his beloved JVP but not without saying he had worked so hard for the party’s welfare that he didn’t have time enough to climb its rocky steps and see for himself the topless damsels Kashyapa may once have beheld atop his lion’s lair fleeing his brother’s wrath for walling his father with cement.
Forming a new party of his own, the National Freedom Front, he had joined the Rajapaksa regime with nothing to offer but his blood, tears, toil and sweat plus of course a foul tongue which he was willing to prostitute to rise above his slum status.
After spreading his lips wide eagle and giving full throat to the Rajapaksa dictate, he enjoyed the high life on the water bed of power, perks and privileges, springing up and down like a yo- yo held in Rajapaksa hands, for over six or seven years, till it sprang a leak and drowned his high flown lifestyle in a flood of disaster.
But his Master’s Voice still echoed from him and gave full flight to speech which many of the low life considered as oratory. But, alas, he finds today, that this dubious gift, along with his manicured finger nails and his gel creased hair and even his carefully trimmed goatee all done up at a five star saloon to keep up appearances, has miserably failed to dawn El Dorado in life’s track.
Forget viewing the pouting breasts of topless damsels at Sigiriya in the name of the JVP, banish even the near death experiences he twice have had in the name of the Rajapaksa regime’s fortunes. None has served any purpose. International conspiracy or no, the fact remains that his own rank and file, the few members he could count on his hands to justify calling the NFF a crowd and not mere company, have deserted him when he needed them most, especially when he is facing trial for corruption and needs a choir to sing his carol that it’s all due to political revenge.
Already four have left, including the Deputy Leader.
So when will it be his turn to bid adieu? Will he be the last to leave it? Or like rats jumping the sinking raft that always was the NFF, will he be the next to hit the water? And then there will be none.
Seems like the party is over for Wimal.