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Responses
JVP - You cannot go alone: Cling on to the Sathakaya or to the Henduwa if you want to win elections!
J.M.T.
Negombo
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My actual name is Winwin
Tilvin is wilting
"I’m not a cardboard Wansa for sure"
Patrick
Nugegoda
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I’m Tilvin, I’ll go on till (I) win
"At least we performed better than the "Mahawansa"
Nimala
Nugegoda
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Anyway we are not down, even our friend Wimal who is so vociferous could not win any seats.
Not that we lost, but that the UPFA won with their power
We’ll never give up
Hilda Gunawardana
Rajagiriya
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Weerawansa reduced to zero in the South and the JVP to three: Next time, Weerawansa will have minus three and the JVP zero.
Milton Jayasekera
Kesbewa
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One does not own up to his blunders never wins.
Anura Ekanayaka
Ratnapura
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Reds may think they are racing towards victory but they are off a precipice.
Nalaka
Colombo
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Tilvin, how can you achieve what Wijeweera himself failed; Give up and go home!
Rodrigo J. L. M.
Wattala
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These guys are digging their political grave with their toungues.
Siva
Vavuniya
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If the government has lost as you say, when are you forming the SPC administration, Comrade Tilvin?
Janet de Soysa
Kandy
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JVP claims are only tales told by fools for the consumption of bigger fools.
Yamuna Gajadheera
Ampara
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"Team mates, follow my kick off to win goals sans kickbacks."
A. Abeygoonawardhana
Homagama
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I would rather be driven by a blind man than be led by a JVPer.
Frank S.
Matale
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I admire these guys' perseverance; they never give up.
Bandula Jayaweera
Matara