There is a Top Team member elected to Diyawanna from a district close to Colombo. By the way, he is a senior member of a political family there.

 Despite being a Pohottuwa politico, he is said to be in flirtation with the Green party these days.

When the Pohottuwa high-ups were drawing up the May Rally speakers’ list they had invited this politico also to be a speaker at the rally, but he had declined. However, the politico had turned up at the Pohottuwa May Day rally. On seeing the big crowd at the rally, the politico had got the desire to address the rally and conveyed his wish to the party high ups.

So he was given the opportunity to address the rally in place of another’s slot.

And he did address the rally at his oratorical best, they say.