Kicking off her political campaign in a bold and determined note confronting her rivals, the newly-appointed Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Colombo Central Organiser Hirunika Premachandra today said no-one could separate her from President Mahinda Rajapaksa as she was his adopted daughter.
Via http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/41784-im-an-adopted-daughter-of-rajapaksa-family-hirunika.html
For those surprised by Hirunika today, please re-read ‘The not so curious case of Hirunika Premachandra’ from 2012:
“After all, Hirunika has been afflicted with the same type of amnesia that Duminda Silva has been afflicted with. That is politics, Sri Lanka style which takes the much quoted adage, “No permanent friends, no permanent enemies in politics,” to a new height.”
See http://groundviews.org/2012/09/14/the-not-so-curious-case-of-hirunika-premachandra/
sources: Groundviews et Dailymirror.lk