A Budget Defeat Will Only
Strengthen The Presidents Hand And Depose His Enemies!
© Hindsight by Sarath
Kumar For LankaWeb - Dec.13th 2007
Perhaps the doomsday predictions on the second budget vote which will
be taken on the 14th December 2007, just a day away will turn out in
the best interests of the Rajapaksha Administration after all.
While Some predict it will be doomsday for the Government. And a certain
Mr. Lal Kantha of the JVP ( where are those vociferous JVP platform
clarions Somawansa Amerasinghe and Wimal Weerasinghe one wonders?) is
alleged to have suggested to the media that the Government will be stopped
for good. This might not necessarily be the case as electing another
Government primarily involves the voting public rather than the trade
unions and the two faced political turncoats such as Hakeem and Thondaman
whose defections to the opposition albeit detrimental in a head count
towards carrying the all important second reading of the Budget is no
major cause for alarm beyond the related inconveniences which are bound
to follow. The failure to carry the vote of approval of the budget may
topple the Government but if the JVP and the UNP believe they can carry
another general election to victory they probably have another thought
coming and are totally diillussioned.
Sri Lanka is a nation whose Post British era political history has been
intermittently linked to the perceptions of its voting public like most
other cognizant, discerning and literate nations and if the image of
the Nation's Leadership is revered and adulated in like manner of the
present President who has instilled more good to the Nation than the
bad he is accused of, the ambits of the opposition to regain parliamentary
superiority could turn out to be a huge dissapointment where in another
election there Rajapaksha led SLFP could probably win an overall majority
on the sound basis that the Nation hates turncoats and betrayers and
realises that the Rajapaksha Administration has proved that the most
important aspect of its tenure is the manner in which together with
the Armed Forces the terrorist threat has been reduces to a minimum
and that they are on the verge of elimination. Subsequent to this there
are positive signs that the Nations other woes such as its burgeoning
cost of living, its gross national income generating areas as well as
its economic infrastructure which has taken a severe beating as a result
of terrorism will definitely improve.
Apparently in the absence of the likes of the usual vociferous proclamations
of Amerasinghe and Weerawansa who seem to be mulling their decisions
about how they will vote on the second Budget Reading perhaps with confused
trepidations and a conscience issue, the new JVP mouthpiece Lal Kantha
and his ilk whose mentalities and actions suggest a split within the
ranks of the JVP seem to be making hay in organising a campaign as quoted
in a recent report which suggests that "there are opportunistic,
anti-national forces colluding to defeat the Government, citing bogus
economic negatives of the budget and “Shylock type” worker
union demands on which their sole survival is totally dependant. "
This cannot be refuted as hearsay nor can it be condoned as patriotism
as it attests to the lowest level of betrayal by one time loyalists
and needs to be condemned to damnation that it exposes the yellow underbelly
of those conniving to topple the Government for all the wrong reasons
of which personal agendas, the greed for power and self centered idealogies
stand out!
Quoting a very relevant insert by fellow columnist Sisira Perera of
Panadura, "It has to be recognized that the war against the mendacious
LTTE terrorists has reached new heights. The Armed forces are being
deftly lead by veteran leaders in the battlefront and, like never before
in the 25-year-old LTTE menace, the present Government has given thorough
political backing to the army to plan and destroy Velupillai Prabhakaran’s
psychopathic Eelam dream. He is left with no option than to shut all
his masquerades on surface and go subterranean in the Wanni jungles
pleading with the international community. He is looking towards the
heaven for some solace to save his pathetic head." and to all intents
and purposes the LTTE supporters must surely now believe that this solace
could come if the present administration were toppled but this is where
they are totally wrong!
Voting in parliament to defeat an all important motion does not constitute
the overall universal franchise of the people of Sri Lanka whose allegiances
to the present administration at the present despite all the anti government
propaganda appear to be etched in stone and unshakeable and perhaps
a rude shock awaits the adversaries of the Rajapaksha Administration.
While another General Election becomes a very complex, unnecessary and
exorbitant issue in the current political and economic climate of Sri
Lanka it coud also be the overall solution to the burning issue of an
imperative need for a Rajapaksha led majority which seems more than
likely to happen given the bleak track records of the UNP and the Nation
betraying mentality of the JVP as well as the rest of the minnows who
support Ranil Wickremasinghe's false hope of regaining power.
The virtual trade unionist coup d'etat against the Government led
by Lal Kantha, Thondaman and Rauf Hakeem the last two mentioned whose
contentious presences should never have been tolerated in any ministerial
capacity ( a huge Governmental Faux Pas!) at the present time seems
to be gaining pride of place over the patriotic resolve of the inner
sanctum of the JVP who at one time were touted as kingmakers.The King
and his knave seems to have made way for the carriage driver to take
charge of JVP decisionmaking and hence the careening direction of the
organisation perhaps which appears to be coming apart at the wheels!
Perhaps this time around they will be branded as Nation destroyers and
political pariahs with the rest of the motley crew whose misguided political
ambitions at least hypothetically could project economic disaster as
well as much greater communal unrest and terrorist directed attrocities
for Sri Lanka where the LTTE are given breathing space and should they
the protagonists of Anti Governmental subterfuge be permitted to indulge
their devious campaign to topple the Government as envisaged by them
regardless of the outcome it will be the Nation of Sri Lanka that will
suffer.Ironically a former terrorist organization which is purported
to have come clean might be the catalyst to this.
It seems to be an envisaged reality by many patriotic Sri Lankans that
a JVP faction coalescing with the Nations enemies are hell-bent on defeating
the Government at the budget vote at this crucial time of the war against
the LTTE terrorism and this will certainly initiate the death blow to
their future political existences for a long time to come should this
ever transpire as at the end of it all the truest form of national patriotism
and fervour will belong to those who defended it against its enemies
not those who are prepared to betray it into the hands of the enemy!
Hence the Budget vote needs to be carried towards the overall stability
of the Sinhala Nation in a simplistic and rational manner sans the complications
of having to regroup the Nations losses in the event of a defeated cabinet
and those whose devious designs to implement it should be castigated
as national traitors.
What seems the most likely outcome of all the current scenarios within
Parliament however is that the Rajapaksha Administration would have
carried themselves to an overwhelming victory at the next polls regardless
of the outcome of the budget where the resolve of the people of Sri
Lanka would prove to be directed against all the anti Government forces
based on national fervour alone which does not tolerate traitors and
unpatriotic scum!!
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