BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS

Many left politicians in Sri Lanka look at Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe as a capitalist agent but after Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Mr Wickremasinghe became president giving hope for Sri Lankans to come out of economic backwardness. Mr Wickremasinghe is not a person like barking dog in stages expecting cheers and clapping from the crowd. The nature of left and Marxist politicians in Sri Lanka, they organize protest, rallies and various actions on the roads to attract people, not to show their capabilities of policy development and implementing. Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe who has a clear political history from King Parakramabahu 6, know how to invent policies to get out from miseries.

If any other person appointed after Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa Sri Lanka other than Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe, the country would have gone to further dwindle than an improvement. Internationally, people acknowledged that the policy development capabilities of Mr Wickremasinghe and his competent to economically improve Sri Lanka, and this stewardship promote Sri Lankans to give more opportunities to Mr Wickremasinghe.  People were misled that Gotabaya was a capable person, but his actual behaviour did not demonstrate that Gotabaya Rajapaksa would be a feeble person of working for the expectation of common men. As political science books interpreted Mr Churchill was good for war period, but for the peace Clement Atlee was the choice. Mr Gotabaya well-coordinated during the war time despite that nature he failed to command the country during the most difficult situation.

The weak aspect in Ranil Wickremasinghe administration is, he has no policy men who are capable of assisting for policy development. Sri Lanka doesn’t want people like JVP who are shouting on the road while working in the office, they are feeble to policy development, when they were working as ministers, they proved incompetent vagabond nature. and other left parties to economic improvements could not trust as the intention of them is to exploiting the country. Economic growth should be increased to more than 7% while reducing the population growth to 0 5%, the combined total of all communities Sinhala, Tamil and Muslims. If people want to go overseas for migration, employment or any other reason, Mr Wickremasinghe should not concern about it but he needs to reduce the population of Sri Lanka between 15 million to 16 million as the population of the country is higher than the size of the country. If this situation be created the size of Sri Lanka’s economy would be sufficed to provide all services to 16 million population and the country will become a developed nation.

Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe needs to redesign the inter-industrial plan reviewing the changes in economy and some industries have become priority than in the past. Government policy makers have not identified the changing nature and many policy makers stuck in past mud field without changing. Mr Wickremasinghe must command his policy direction for radical changes and the beginning industry structure from basic four, Agriculture, Industrial, construction and services to a new structure. Because of policy makers hang on the past structure, they are impotent to identity changes and policy invention in new industry structure.