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Tluppahi Clans Day Dreaming
with a Modelling Duo – Part II
A.A.M.NIZAM, MATARA
A former Vice President of
the SLFP Central Committee, Matara Electorate
Among the political parties in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party
has faced the highest number of conspiracies aimed at destroying the
Party. Some initiated by party members themselves and others launched
by reactionary forces. Some of these conspiracies were not only aimed
at destroying the party but also at eliminating the leader. The unsuccessful
attempt made to poison and kill the founder of the Party on 25.08.59
at a Cabinet Meeting was the first such attempt. Most of the culprits
claimed that they were revolting to prevent the Party drifting away
from its core policies. The grand children and children of some conspirators
are playing leading roles in the political arena today. Mr. Mangala
Samaraweera is one of them. We have a common understanding that children
are bound to imitate good deeds as well as bad deeds of their fathers,
which we say in Sinhala as “Thaattha Kara de Putha Nokaroth Oo
Nottige Putha”.
Many conspiracies to destroy the SLFP took place during the period
the late Prime Minister Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike held the reins of
the Party. Many of these plots were hatched with the objective of either
preventing her or to obstruct her from implementing people’s friendly
progressive measures. The immoral reactionary forces even employed her
own children, particularly the ex-President Chandrika to politically
defame her, destroy her and make her a powerless figurehead.
Following the bold steps taken by her to nationalize the oil companies
and the missionary schools a coup d’etat was launched in 1962 by
a pro-alien and an ethnical segment of the armed forces led by the grandfather
of a prominent M.P in the Junk-UNP. Envied by her continuous implementation
of people friendly measures such as widening the University education
by establishing additional Universities, establishment of industries
for production of tyre, textile, steel products, sugar and many others
items utilising locally available raw materials the reactionary forces
became determined to topple the government and halt the people’s
friendly progressive measures.
The reactionary forces however succeeded in luring 14 SLFP Members
of Parliament, including several Ministers and toppling the people’s
government led by Mrs. Bandaranaike in 1964, forcing a General Election
in 1965. Mr. Mangala Samaraweera;s father, Minister of Posts and Telecommunication
the late Mr. Mahanama Samaraweera was a leading figure of this 14 member
group whom Mrs. Bandaranaike condemned as those who stabbed her in the
back, and the group became known as the “Pihi Partiya”, literally
meaning the party of those who stab in the back. The verdict given by
the masses to these 14 politicians sending them to political wilderness
is a known history.
Despite these betrayals Mrs. Banadranaike was magnanimous in appointing
Mr. Mangala Samaraweera as the party organisor for Matara Electorate.
When the 17 years of tyrannical and State Terror rule of the UNP became
utterly detested by the masses and there were clear signs that the masses
are eagerly awaiting to elect a government led by Mrs. Bandaranaike,
the reactionary forces afflicted with Sirimavo phobia in collaboration
with the NGO gangs parachuted Chandrika with the objective of making
Mrs. Bandaranike a powerless figure in the SLFP.
Mr. Samaraweera betraying the trust reposed in him by Mrs. Bandaranaike
ganged up with S.B.Dissanayake and NGO vultures such as Victor Ivon
and Sunanda Deshapriya and strived to promote Chandrika against Mrs.
Bandaranaike for leading the party in the 1994 election and then to
the post of President. Thus Mr. Samaraweera, as aspired by the reactionary
forces, helped preventing Mrs. Bandaranaike assuming the leadership
of the country and implementing the people friendly nationalistic policies
of the SLFP. The SLFP under the leadership of Chandrika, assisted by
Mangala and SB completely drifted away from its core policies to the
extent that there were no glaring difference between the policies of
Chandrika-SLFP and the UNP.
Mr. Samaraweera’s performance during his political career confirms
that he used SLFP only as a political ploy to prevent the Party from
implementing its nationalistic policies and strengthen the reactionary
forces. He had been a party and strong promoter of all reactionary and
anti-national policies implemented by ex-President Chandrika. There
are many anecdotes of vested interests and reactionary forces deploying
their agents in progressive and nationalistic parties either to waylay
or to weaken such parties. There are reasons to believe that Mr. Samaraweera
falls into this category as statements such as Dump the Sinhala Commission
Report into the Waste Paper Basket etc., cannot be expected from persons
committed to the policies of SLFP, as this was a much researched report
which highlighted many threats facing this country.
Similar to the magnanimous appointment made by Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike,
President Rajapakse too offered Mr. Samaraweera a Ministerial Post despite
vicious and baseless criticism involving him personally and his family
members. Can we expect such magnanimity from the Head of State of any
other nation? The post crossover actions being taken by Mr. Samaraweera
clearly indicate that he is being used by reactionary, terrorist and
other vested interests to prevent the massive rural development work,
to cease the military operations against the fascist terrorist outfit,
to force reverse the people friendly policies of the present government,
and to destabilize and topple the government.
Mr. Samaraweera’s political outfit called SLFP-M, popularly known
as SLFP-Models Wing has presented a document which he claims as set
proposals to develop this country. A careful study of the document shows
that it is nothing other than plagiarized resubmission of periodical
criticism of the government and demands being made by the reactionary
elements, peace merchants, NGO vultures, and terrorist proxies. The
so-called ideas have been presented as a set of dreams without any concrete
proposals on how to realize these day dreams.
Voicing the calls being made by the terrorist proxies and NGO vultures
the Day Dream document demands for halting the war and commence negotiations.
When our gallant forces have successfully defeated the fascist terrorists
in the jungles of Toppigala which even the forces of world’s 4th
largest army the IPKF could not do what justification the Models Duo
or any other reactionary outfit or person has to demand for halting
the war and lay the ground for the defeated terrorists to rearm and
restrengthen and once again subject the country to the terrorist menace
which we have been afflicted for the last several decades? Is the Models
Duo committed to save the country or save the terrorists?
The Models Duo who levels accusation for certain things have been a
party to all such things, and have no right to speak about them. The
Day Dreams Document if taken totally is a call for unity among all reactionary
forces, including the terrorists to reject everything that we cherish
as national, and subject the country and its resources to global forces
for unconditional exploitation. Just to camouflage these core objectives
delicate issues such as Executive Presidency, Electoral proposals, devolution
etc., have been lightly articulated without any concrete proposals even
on these issues. In total the document is neither a serious analysis
of problems being encountered by the country nor something offering
acceptable solutions. Therefore it has no value at all and worth only
to be dumped in the Dust Bin.
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