By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA

Sajith Premadasa in his desperation and greed for political power had been uttering many jokes in recent days and has become an object for amusement in certain cases and serious offensive and repulsive utterances in certain other cases. The amusement series included driving buses, kicking a football to show he can play soccer, holding a bat and attempting to hit a cricket ball to show he can play cricket, playing volleyball, crossing a river on a footbridge, a log bridge (aethanda), etc.  Is it also denotes that he does not know or not interested at all about other popular sports such as track and field, rigger, swimming, basketball, etc.   All these are utterly irrelevant for the election of a President. If such things were done by presidential candidates, the election commission in those countries would have taken the person concerned to test whether he is a maniac or in a good sense before accepting nominations from such a person.

The most scornful and repulsive offense he has made so far is using a term that no Buddhist priest or laymen would have dared to use by themselves, the term Sri” (Holy) which is only used as an attribute to Lord Buddha.   For instance Si Pada, Sri Vibhootiya, Sri Maha Bodhiya Sri Dalada Maligawa, Sri Dantha Dhathoon  etc.  This crank candidate has said that he was uttering things or making promises through his Sri Mouth. The usage of this attribute to his mouth has created a storm of prote3sts and condemnation from all over the country. 

The self-aggrandized Sajith Premadasa visited Kandy on Monday on the insistence of his media team as a gimmick to fool the Buddhists and to get some video clip to be used in the election campaign.  In this visit, he visited Sri Dalada Maligawa, and to meet the incumbent Maha Nayake Theroes of Malwatte, Asgiriya chapters and theMaha Nayake Thero of the Ramanya Nikaya.  During this visit the Acting Maha Nayake Thero of the Amarapura Nikaya, Ven. Yalegama Dammissara Thero told Mr. Premadasa to apologize publicly and seek  reprieve from the Buddhist public about his utterance for himself having a Sri mukaya and thereby desecrating the attribute exclusive belonging to Lord Buddha and admonished him that people make mistakes when they speak or so something but it is paramount to seek indemnification for such mistakes and utterance. The enormous anger among the Buddhists, priests, and laymen both, forced shameless self-aggrandized, hollow and foul mouthed Sajith to publicly apologize at his first public rally held at Galle face greens on 10th October, Thursday.

By this measure, the so-called Sri Mouth of Sajith became a ‘Kaanu Kataa’ the well-known name for his father.  Readers may be wondering why he was known as Kaanu Kataa.  When Madam Sirimavo Bandaranaike became World’s First Prime Minister Premadasa addressing a meeting in Anuradhapura said that when they get their own PrimeMinister he will sit on the PM’s chair after only washing it thoroughly.  When there were objections to this speech and people started to rebuke him as Kaanu Kataa.  At that time the Lake House was totally servile to the UNP and it even attempted to claim that the speech was made by Mr. Peter Keuneman which was not accepted by the people.  So as Sajith has on umpteen times said that he will become the son of Premadasa noe he has become a Kaanu Kataa like his father.

On Deiday11thOctober Sajith Premadasa and the UNP hierarchy received another bad news from the Supreme Court.  The government filed many bogus cases against Gotabhaya to keep him tied up in court premises and hamper his campaign activities.  TheSupreme Court issued a stay order on special court Trial-at-Bar which hears the D.A.Rakapaksa Memorial Museum case until 10th.  It was reported that the government was making illegal moves to have hearings of this case to hamper Gota’s election campaign.  

In another set back to Sajith his bete noir Ranil Wickremasinghe has taken over the election campaign activities and shifted it from Sajith’s own election in the Vaxhaul street to Ranil’s UN[ headquarters Sirikotja saying that Sajith’s Sajitj’s campaign activities are not being carried properly.  The has denied that election campaign activities had been entrusted to the former UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanmnayake and has said that it will now be handled by the former Director-General of the Information Department Mr. Ranga Kalansueiya under the direct supervision of Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe.

Despite wasting public funds on advertisements and on foundation laying/inaugural ceremonies of his chicken pen houses alleged to have constructed on archaeological sites after removing the artefacts (details of these swindling and wastage were reported in the media from time to time) this self-aggrandizing person with a chicken mind addressing an event titled ‘mega mind’ has said that he will intend implementing the concept of artificial intelligence management dashboard  for contacting officials of government institutions over the phone to get statistics and updates on relevant institutions and strategies to address certain issues. Like the anecdote that attributes to prawns, he thinks all public servants are rogues and guilty despite he himself is reported to be guilty to a gross extent.  People say that he is only parroting illusory things without knowing the meanings of such things. 

As per a report published in the Daily Mirror on 3rd October 2019 s Sajith Premadasa’s statement suggests that the gap in income share between the richest and poorest quintiles in the country is 50% of total household income. As per the report, the FactCheck in its assessment has shown Sajith’s claim against the income statistics in the Household Income and Expenditure Surveys (HIES) of Sri Lanka in 2016 ), the gap in income share was 46%, and not 50%. The website has said that Sajith overstates the income disparity in Sri Lanka and therefore, they classify his statement as FALSE. The website reputed for analytical forecasts also states that Sajith’s ’s statement is ambiguous on whether he is referring to the quintiles in terms of households or individuals (because household size varies, the two statistics

October 8 Tuesday was a historic day for my old political party, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in which I was the Vice President of the Central Committee of the Matara electorate. 

The party had its Central Committee meeting on this day at the official residence of President Maithreepa Sirisena and at this meeting, the President relinquished his chairmanship of the SLFP. and remain as a nonpartisan until the end of the presidential election. The former General Secretary of the party Prof. Rohana Lakshman Piyadasa was appointed as the acting Chairman. At this historic meeting, several provisions were taken on several resolutions moved by the party’s senior vice president Mr. Nimal Siripala de Silva.  These decisions included

1. the SLFP to extend its fullest support to the presidential candidacy of Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and take all steps to ensure his victory
2. the SLFP to joint he new political alliance of the SLPP, the Sri Lanka Podujana Alliance (SLPA)
3. to hold negotiations with the SLPA on the allocation of positions in the alliance and arrangements related to the next General Electopm. 

It was also decided for MPs Duminda Dissanayake and Weerakumara Dissanayaje to attend Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s inaugural rally to be held at the Salgado stadium in Anuradhapura on the following day. And officially the three MOUs that had been drawn up by MP Nima; Siripala de Silva in respect of the aforementioned three matters.  Accordingly, the MOUs were signed on the 9th morning at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute by the General Secretary of the SLFP Dayasiri Jayasekera and the General Secretary of the SLPP Sagala Kariyawasam.

Amidst these developments, some lapdogs of the old hag Chandrika calling themselves as members of the organization for the protection of the SLFP have attempted to contact Chandrika to get instructions from her the steps to be taken and have found that Chandrika has left (fled from) the country on the 9th morning.  Later of was reported that they have held a meeting with Chandrika’s minion the notorious quisling and the foreign servile Mangala Samaraweera. The number of this so-called Chandrika’s lapdogs are said to be not even 10 persons.

 Chandrika has severely blamed the SLFP General Secretary Dayasiri Jayasekera and has sent a letter stating the following in Sinhala:

Immediately halt SLFP support to Gota.  90%are with me.

The former President Mrs. ChandrikaBandaranaike expresses her opposition for the decision taken by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party to extend its support to Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa in the forthcoming presidential election

Given below is the contents of the letter sent by her to the SLFP General Secretary Mr. Dayasiri Jayasekera.

 When over 90% of our organizers have stated that they are opposed to joining withPohottuwa, how can you decide to support Gota? This is a complete betrayal of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.

If Maithree has said that he is willing to relinquish the party presidency,we would extend you support to revive the party and take up the chairmanship.

Our party became weak not because we joined in an alliance with the United National Party and other parties. It was because our leader did not have the required strength and vision and because he became fooled by the conspiracies of Rajapaksas and complicating the party by destroying the goof things. 

If Maithree had the capability of using the government power, he could have built the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, allowed the law and order to prevail smoothly and taken appropriate action against murders and plundering of Rajapaksas by now the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the country would have become very strong.

Therefore, I appeal to you as the person who loves the Sri Lanka Freedom Party most and who knows about the party.  Without confining to your personal needsm do not allow our party to be destroyed. 

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga

Ex-President

Wednesday 9^th October, bright sun and cool winds pleasing everyone prevailed in Anuradhapura.  By the moon, Tsunami waves of people from all over the district descended to normally deserted Salgado stadium and its environs and the people were very much enthusiastic to see the savior of the nation and the country’s undisputed next President.

When Gota’s inaugural rally, MPs Dr. Sarath Amunugama, Duminda Dissanayake, Weerakumara Dissanayake, and several other SLFP  MPs joined the guests.  It was also surprising to find that the former deputy minister W.B.Ekanayake whom a few days ago was shown as joined Sajith Premadasa also coming to the stage and pledging his support to SLFP MP Duminda Dissanayajeaddressing the rally said that the victory was with Gotabaya and invited all SLFPers to back him at the upcoming presidential election.

Speaking to the first-ever political campaign of Mr. Rajapaksa, MP Dissanayake said he was on the stage bearing well wishes from the SLFP to Mr. Rajapaksa.

MP Dissanayake said that they will back Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the SLFP has decided to do so because both parties represent the left politics. He said Gotabaya’s proposals for the future are optimistic to form a strong country with restored democracy, national security, and economy.

Delivering the keynote address, Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said it is his duty is to make Sri Lanka a safe country once again and promised to release all war heroes who have been imprisoned over ‘false’ charges. He expressed his immense gratitude to all members of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) for the historic decision” taken by the party to support him at the election. 

The former Defence Secretary charged that within 5 years of coming to power, the incumbent government has taken away the people’s freedom to visit even their places of worship without being afraid of a bomb attack. He asked the people to fulfill their duty and assured that November 16^th onwards his duty is to make this country a safe country once again.

He also vowed that once their government comes to power farmers will be given their fertilizer subsidy-free of charge and all microfinance debt and the debt of the farmers will be waived off.

He promised that all imprisoned war heroes will be released by the morning of the day after the presidential poll. He said a  large number of war heroes are languishing in prisons over false charges and cases. And he would like to declare at this moment that they will all be released by November 17th morning. He also promised that all personnel in the civil security service who have completed 22 years of service will get a pension under their government.

Speaking further Mr. Gotabhaya said that the government is trying fears in the minds of the people that he will install a military regime in the country.  He said that they liberated this country in a glorious manner and the people are well aware of what has happened to the gallant war heroes under this government and attempts made to prosecute them as war criminals. 

Delving about Anuradhapura, he said that the Anuradhapura in the past was known as the Tank Kingdom. At that time we had agriculture connected to the village, the tank and the temple.  2/3rd of the people of the country depended on agriculture as a living hood. But this government gave only step-motherly treatment to agriculture. It was only MahRajapaksa government that served for the farmers. The Agriculture received state patronage and gave fertilizer subsidy, but this government slashed the fertilizer subsidy. Again the fertilizer subsidy was given to the farmers during the 52 days government. It will be given absolutely free of charge when we come to power. What we want is to raise the living standards of the farmers. To make the country self-sufficient in rice and other food products.  No country could look forward to the future without food security. We will do everything possible and necessary to ensure food security.  When the country is developed it should be developed encompassing all sectors so that everyone can benefit as a whole.

The leader of the National Freedom FrontMP Wimal Weerawansa addressing the rally that the recent killing of 7 elephants has been done to fulfill a Malayalam Vow. He said that this country which had been shattered can be rebuilt again only by Mahinda-Gota pure combination which in the past directed children wearing Cyabide capsules to re-enter schools and removed the bomb fear from the Sinhala and Muslim children.  He said that it is the incumbent duty of the people to ensure the victory of the Mahinda-Gota combine to get a bright, peaceful and harmonious future assured for their children. 

Speaking further he said that the SLFP joining with them they are inaugurating the campaign with 6.5 Million votes in hand and it would get further increased up to November 16th. With that, they will proceed from real victory to a mammoth victory. Mr. Weerawansa said that it will not become necessary to wait until November 16th to celebrate victory but the heroic patriotic people of Elpitiya will write the premonition before that.