evidence: The historic ‘new generation peaceful youth ‘aragalaya’ (the public movement seeking the resignation of the previous Government led by then President Gotabaya Rajapaksa)’ at the Galle Face in 2022 that was triggered by the devastating economic and United States Dollar ($) crisis, correctly traced the main root causes of such, and desperately brought to the fore the dire need for reforms under the popular phrase ‘system change’ through slogans such as ‘Gota go home (abolish the Executive Presidency)’, and ‘ditch the 225 (change the electoral system to ensure the entry of country first political professionals)’. [...] With the completion of two years after the ‘aragalaya’, the developing ‘election fever’, precisely symptomises that the traditional politicians are still hell bent on grabbing power for the next five years by hook or by crook through ‘crossover deals’ and dubious alliances. Such steps amply point to the fact that they who are responsible for the present ‘bankruptcy’ are not prepared to put their shoulders to the wheel and are not in the least bothered about the country’s fast accumulating foreign debt, negative terms of trade (imports versus exports) and the need to repay re-structured foreign loan instalments with interest in $s, signalling intermittent ‘bankruptcies’ over the next several decades. In this scenario, they are surely bound to throw the people’s ‘system change’ package to their dustbin.