The Sri Lankan Parliamentary elections are ongoing and if the President's party wins a 2/3 majority, they can change the Constitution.
It's always a conundrum to describe hardline rulers who use brutal tactics. Who do you compare them to?
THE PAST:
Shortly after the 2004 Lok Sabha elections that brought Congress to power and ended BJP's term, The Hindu wrote the following:
This is what we call editorial process failure :) Anyway, insert bad jokes here ["he must be really old!"] :)
More seriously, what exactly is Somnath Chatterjee (i.e. Speaker of the Lok Sabha) going to teach Bangladeshi MPs? How to screw over your own party, anti-imperailists, and people opposed to nuclear proliferation in one day?
No, he will cover the following: