evidence: Ranil’s response was as follows – "This election is still wide open, with people carefully listening and considering their options for the future. I am the only one who has put up novel ideas promoting an export-oriented economy, women empowerment law, social justice commission, the parliamentary standards, implementing the 87 recommendations of the Priyasath Dep Commission, the agriculture modernisation and so on and so forth. No one has matched that or even addressed them. It is either maintaining the status quo or changing faces." [...] This cheerful nonchalance can emanate only due to two reasons in the current context of a presidential election. Firstly Ranil is supremely confident that he will be the winner in this presidential race. Secondly he is spiritually and mentally detached from the final outcome. As enunciated by the "Bhagavad Gita" Wickremesinghe is discharging what he perceives as his duty without any concern for the results whether positive or negative. [...] Ranil opines that he is the man who can achieve this. His chief opponents Premadaa and Dissanayake are incapable of facing up to the formidable task. Indeed some of their pronouncements and promise aimed at garnering votes indicate that they have very little grasp or knowledge of the intricacies involved in resurrecting the economy. He is confident that the majority of Sri Lankan people would recognize this reality and vote for the best man – Ranil Wickremesinghe! According to informed circles, Ranil is in a buoyant mood after receiving "unofficial" reports that the bulk of postal votes -including those from the North and East-have been cast for him.