DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA I write to respond to Uditha Devapriya’s literate critical commentary entitled “Dayan Jayatilleka and the Opposition Re-Set” ( Dayan Jayatilleka and the Opposition Reset – The Island), not to rebut, but rather to clarify and elaborate. In the first place I have been appointed the Senior Advisor on International Relations to the Leader of the Opposition, rather than Senior Advisor to the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) on the subject. While I support Sajith Premadasa, I am not a member of any political party and anything I write and/or say about the Opposition is as a political scientist who also happens to be sympathetic to and critically supportive of the main democratic opposition party, the SJB; not as the holder of any official designation within it.