Rajapaksa ahead in cut-out war
Less than a month ago, the faces of the two main candidates at the upcoming presidential election — President Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Army Chief General Sarath Fonseka — smiled down on passers-by from the one and same billboards to mark the defeat of terrorism.The billboards that showed them together have disappeared. Instead, a new cut-out campaign or a propaganda war has begun, In Colombo, President Rajapaksa is almost without competition in the cut-out war with a 75-foot figure of his erected at the Horton Place roundabout while billboards of him have been put up at prime locations.
