Namal Karunaratna, a leading light of the NPP/JVP, states that rupee will start sliding soon, reaching 400-500 per dollar. The issue here is not the introduction of new visa categories – approved by Cabinet and Parliament – but the opaque outsourcing of on-arrival visa issuance. As Sri Lanka Immigration and Emigration Officers Association points out, there’s no rationale for outsourcing since Lankan officials have been handling on-arrival visas since 2012 without a problem. The Minister of Tourism professes to be unhappy with the outsourcing (why he kept silent about it all this time is another matter). What is the difference between a JVP which winks at extra-judicial killings and Gotabaya Rajapaksa or Tiran Alles?