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India's worry: Prospects of a brute majority for Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka

It remains a question of what the final tally will be - a simple or brute majority in the 225-member legislature

Sri Lankan police and election officials load ballot boxes and papers into busses from a distribution centre to polling stations 	(Photo: reuters)
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Sri Lankan police and election officials load ballot boxes and papers into busses from a distribution centre to polling stations (Photo: Reuters)

Aditi Phadnis New Delhi
As Sri Lanka prepares to vote on Wednesday, the bets are not on who will win the Parliamentary election. Rather, they are on the margin of victory for Mahinda Rajapaksa — former Sri Lanka President, interim Prime Minister, and leader of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP).

It remains a question of what the final tally will be — a simple or brute majority in the 225-member legislature.

“The Rajapaksa regime is going all out to get a two-third majority in Parliament after the forthcoming elections on August 5. The avowed objective of such a steam-roller majority is to promulgate a new