Colombo, Nov. 12 -- This is the election week in Sri Lanka and everyone is trying to guess the winner ahead of polls. Though there are over 30 contestants, only two have come under serious consideration. The Gotabaya Rajapaksa Camp is doing their best to run a clean campaign and to usher in a new political culture. The Sajith Premadasa Camp does not entertain any such grand ambitions. They had in fact pulled out all the stops and is sticking as closely as possible to the "traditions" of the political game.

The Rajapaksa Camp is tightly focusing on promoting their policies, vision and their manifesto. They have employed the latest of technologies and their policies popping up in the form of augmented reality is magic to the newspaper read...