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October 24th 2006

Is the much sought after posterity for Sri Lanka being pandered and compromised by the latest SLFP- UNP MOU where President Rajapaksa has failed to rein in the JVP because of its tough demands prioritising the call towards abolishing the ceasefire agreement with the LTTE Terrorists and the removal of Norway as facilitator which were highlighted most appropriately by the JVP given the circumstances surrounding a fully armed, world proscribed terror group continuing their attrocities while a dumbfounded world audience looked on and the covertly terrorist supportive yet pretentious albeit duplicitous peacenik and LTTE sycophant Norway seemed acceptable given the dangers of soliciting for any liasons with the LTTE.

Has this latest move by the President in following an idealogy that there is more to gain in an alliance with the main opposition UNP than with the ultra nationalist JVP, compromised all the integrities the masses in Sri Lanka seemingly favoured as they pinned all their hopes on his vision for the Nation and might his decision come back to haunt him? Does it also appear to be, as some seem to think, a selfishly motivated move where the needs of the Nation seem secondary and a consensus which will grant him the much sought after two-thirds majority in parliament to bring about the sweeping political and economic reforms which the financial analysts believe would put the development process on a fast track, but at what cost to the Nation relative to its integrity as a Sovereign Nation in crisis with a dangerous and fully armed terror group who realistically cannot be trusted or held accountable for all their crimes against humanity?

Is President Rajapakse running the gauntlet in giving greater opportunities for the once LTTE friendly UNP and consequently a whole plethora of other sources leeway towards collaboration towards LTTE objectives while being aware of what the LTTE are pushing for? Something which could grossly undermine the security of the Nation given the fact that the LTTE have already infiltrated into areas they were never thought capable of with a little help from their UNP buddies and the anomalies which could unfold in the extreme case scenario somewhat alarming even conceptually?

It seems an interesting item of debate as some discerning citizens of Sri Lanka have speculated that the President appears to have found a panacea for dealing with the ethnic problem and the economic situation whille killing two birds with one stone, namely distancing himself from the revolutionaly views of the JVP who are socialist by dogma and political creed where the free enterprise preaching and open economy and lending agencies more often than not think little or nothing about the proletariat and the poor man once their smug posteriors are settled in the comforts of their luxurious official premises, chauffeur driven Pagaros et al, and all the perks of their ostentatious positions and the lure of misapropriation once again takes the right of way over the needs of the poor man in the incessant auto roll known in Sri lanka for generations as patronage and lining of pockets!

Indeed at last the two main political parties in Sri Lanka at least in theory are getting together for a grand political alliance, a reunion bash and all the festivities associated with such a coming together as many realistic and rational thinking idividuals are baffled about whether all this posturing between the nations two main political parties is for real and why the JVP and JHU have been sidelined despite their avowed dedications of patriotism which has been the basis upon which the unity and integrities of the Sinhala Nation have been sustained after the LTTE almost brought the Nation to its knees!

Unbeleivable yet real ! says the media which also labels it a historic deal where the incumbent Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the main opposition United National Party (UNP) have agreed to work together on six key areas for two years. Are there some shades of semblance to another historic signing of a pact between the Government and the Tamil Tiger terrorists which failed miserably in the long run and is the cause for great chagrin in Sri Lanka today and is the Nation once again poised for another disaster which would further disrupt its smooth functioning where LTTE terrorists could very well be running amok and the Nation's Security and Territorial integrity compromised as never before much in the manner reminiscent of the previous Wickremasinghe administration and had the President got himself into a further soup in sidelining the patriots of the JVP and JHU dubbing it zealotry which he believe is unhealthy for Sri Lanka?

Despite the rhetoric and the metaphors thrown into the debate it has to be observed that once there is a coalition upon which the smooth functioning of Parliament depends it seems a travesty of justice to reach out to the rebellious entity in opposition to the coalition towards which it might appear to be an opportunistic overture based upon anything but the well being of the Nation which seems to have once been very convinced that it was the exsiting coalition which had the best interests of the Nation at heart than the turncoats of the UNP who have been clutching at straws towards their own survival and a fact displayed in all clarity through the divisions of thought and idealogy within their own camp which seems opportunistic and a lowering of ethical standards for both the SLFP and the UNP!

In this context it seems better off if any MOU towards saving the Nation from the scourge of the LTTE and the restoring of its economy is signed and ratified with the collaboration and assent of all the political parties of the Sinhala Nation or not at all!

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