The website Lankatruth has reported that the wristwatches have been distributed as a desperate measure after it was brought to the President's notice that he was losing ground in the run up to the January 8 election according to polls monitors.

Meanwhile in an interesting feature, a youth in Hambantota who attended a meeting of Common Opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena had cut his hair in the shape of a swan which is the symbol of Maithripala.