By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island

February 16, 2018, 10:06 pm

While satirical drawings are the stuff of the Pohottuva success in the recent polls and cartoonists are having a great time laughingly depicting the reality of politics and politicos, one cartoon that stood out this week was in a Sinhala publication that showed President Sirisena ask for his corruption felling sword… to be told by his wife it was in the kitchen cutting jak!

It was a hilarious depiction that recalled the Sinhala proverb – ‘Yuddeta nathi kaduva, Kos kotannada?’- is the sword not available for war, meant to cut jak?

There is much about the victors and vanquished in this latest poll that seems keen to hide the real loser in this poll battle. Yes, the Pohottuva led by Mahinda Rajapaksa won a huge victory; the bud has blossomed, but what about the hand that gave way to that bud? Very little is said about that.

The big hits are at the elephant players of the UNP. The Prime Minister is the target of all the strikers, making their strikes at Yahapalanaya governance. The loud chorus of the purple players of the pohottuva, and some sections of the media, especially one TV station that thinks it is the only voice of the people, have carried out a campaign that seems keen to hide or shield the real loser.

Talking of the unpopularity of the UNP, and the many failures of its leader, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, is certainly right and timely too. But, what of the real, formal, and elected leader of Yahapalanaya – President Maithripala Sirisena? Why are the political shouters of Pohottuva, and the political, academic, religious, and media supporters of that call, so silent about the Yahapalanaya leader, who is right on top in the State apparatus, and certainly defeated Mahinda Rajapaksa to come to that position – no doubt with huge UNP backing – in January 2015?

There are many who analyze the defeat of the government forces in this election being due to the huge divisions among them exposed in the LG poll campaign, and who took the lead in that performance? Who but Maithripala Sirisena, with his loud and repeated promise to use his sword in the fight against corruption? Then why the soft play or mollycoddle touches for him?

Let’s get some facts correct in this political equation. The Mahinda Rajapaksa led Pohottuva team won 44.6 percent of the votes, an outstanding victory. The UNP and Ranil Wickremesinghe trailed far behind with 32.6 percent. But much further behind, led by President Sirisena, was the SLFP/UPFA with just 13.3percent. In fact, the SLFP alone was even behind the JVP. What is the hidden truth in this brassy silence about the SLFP and Maithripala Sirisena’s defeat?

The Bond Scam was certainly a big player and the UNP got caught very badly in that. President Sirisena won that round with the Bond Commission and its findings. He could point a figure at Ranil on the appointment of Arjuna Mahendran as Governor CB, those were his scoring points. But, did Sirisena do anything to move away from the ever-widening corruption of Yahapalanaya, almost reaching the proportions of the Mahinda Era of the crooked? What is there to show that Sirisena was against the nepotism that soured the Rajapaksa Regime? What of that shocker brotherly head of the SLT? Talking of using his sword against the corrupt – did he use it or even take it out of the scabbard, against his SLFP Secretary – Duminda Dissanayake – spending many millions on rent for the abode of the Ministry of Agriculture?

Is there nothing that he knows about the costs of government advertising, always running into several millions, through an agency with close family links? Was he not moving towards the Rajapaksa game?

How much has the President, who is the Minister for the Environment, done to put a halt to the ravages taking place in the Wildlife and Forest areas of Wilpattu? Do we recall the forest and wildlife destruction at Hambantota, at earlier times?

This tale can get longer and longer. It looks as if the recognized leader of Yahapalanaya, after the 19th Amendment, remained closer to the corrupt forces that he gave a lead to defeat in January 2015. It brings to mind the words of the late Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera, who said, the pan was getting hot, but the roti was not being baked.

What we have seen in President Sirisena was a compulsive need to gain control of the SLFP. That has now been roundly defeated. The SLPP shows all signs of replacing the SLFP – using the Pohottuva against the old Hand. What can he now do with the SLFPers, Mahinda Rajapaksa included, who did so well to defeat the SLFP into way below the UNP – the traditional opponent?

What we see in the increasing silence about the SLFP defeat and that of Maithripala Sirisena, the token if not the idol of Yahapalanaya, is his inability to swing any sword against corruption, in politics, and in governance. Is it a revival of his years in the Rajapaksa Cabinet?

Can this sword he spoke so much about, targeting the UNP and Ranil, and the Pohottuva Team led by Mahinda Rajapaksa, be ever taken out of its scabbard?

Or is he facing the threat of a Sword of Damocles after those loud and empty claims of clean government?

A. Patabendige Colombo 05 Courtesy The Island

February 16, 2018, 10:04 pm

“….Ranil Wickremesinghe showed his inherent hatred towards the Sinhalese and especially Sinhalese Buddhists’. (‘Page 16- Charge of the Lion Brigade’- Patali Champika Ranawaka 2009)

Dauris, the British High Commissioner, led the charge of the lost empire on the miniscule SL Foreign Ministry to protest about six-foot infantry Brigadier (Brig) Priyanka Fernando, the Defence Attache’s actions in London. Brig Fernando had, on Independence Day, stood up to the outlawed LTTE terrorist flag-bearing rented mob trampling the SL flag in front of the SL High Commission. Dauris’ action tipped the balance of support at the recent local government elections. He almost single-handed confirmed the suspicions of all if not all over, except in Dauris’ office in Colombo that the TNA/ITAK, former mouth organs of the LTTE, treated reconciliation only as a bargaining chip to steal power. Much like their leader’s Eelam cry to excite well rewarded British if not western liberals. And also overlook all their atrocities.

Brigadier Priyanka Fernando

Did Dauris not know of the above mentioned quotation which clearly showed the character and caliber of SL leaders in power? He must have realized that hypocrites who from 2015 only pretended to be partners despite the above vexatious quotation. They would never have the spunk, guts and blood to stand up to caricatures of Dixit like Viceroy Pretenders. Did Dauris despite evidence to the contrary believe SL was ripe for a replay of Imperial adventures not by troops in tin hats this time but by overbearing diplomatic tin pots.

Little did Dauris think that the toadies he had counted as his close support fans and tale carriers in SL were a despised and absolute minority even while they were evaporating. However, they were able to give the impression that the country was foolishly with them. This was especially so when they toadied up to the flotsam and jetsam of past Imperialists present in SL. When the Foreign Ministry capitulated immediately, Dauris must have expected HM misled government to offer him the ‘SL totally pulverized’ campaign medal. The terrorist leader VP himself would if he was alive rewarded Dauris with the Battle of Eelam 4.5 medal for going into a froth standing up for the ‘peaceful’ LTTE supporters/members in London. Guess who would have looked a dead cert gold medal winner for the peace of the LTTE graveyard? This is over the dead bodies of 600 surrendered policemen who without question obeyed the orders of Premadasa’s UNP government that included RW as a minister no less. They, less the Tamil police officers, were all murdered. How many of the murderers were present on 4 February 2018 opposite the SL High Commission? Can Dauris tell SL?

The SL High Commissioner led a total collapse of the High Commission in the face of the Dauris inspired Foreign Ministry’s servile directions to remove Brigadier Fernando from his post. Did she advise, prevent, comment or protect the Defence Attaché even with one word or gesture or an ounce of loyalty in the face of adversity? No. Neither did anyone think to ask her. Just as Dauris must have assumed, predicted and promised his government. Can a High Commissioner who cannot defend a military officer working in the High Commission protect SL’S interest in the UK?

But, behold President Sirisena’s bunker buster. He ordered the Foreign Secretary to cancel the last instruction or resign. Guess what lightning the official did? Guess who in the first place instructed the Ministry to send out that slimy, creepy crawly, servile and gutless instruction? Was it Prime Minister Ranil W or Foreign Minister Tilak Marapone? Or, was it a hidden hand from Matara?

Did Sampanthan not know beforehand of the GTF/LTTE plans in London to lay siege to the SL High Commission on Independence Day and insult the national flag? Did he flag PM Wickremesinghe? Why did Sampanthan, commander of Wickremesinghe’s rear guard, absent himself from ‘duty’ at the Independence Day parade on Galle Face ‘Green’? Guilty conscience is easily recognized even equally by fools and appeasers.

So why thank Dauris? Well, what he did was to hand over the local government elections on a platter to the SLPP by his flippant and silly actions. He also helped the majority of the people to firm up their belief that reconciliation or whatever it is said to be with the North, would never be possible as long as the remnants of the LTTE and ITAK/TNA remained in the field and even as the likes of Dauris are sent as High Commissioners to SL. Did not the LTTE spurn the peace offers of the government four times and break solemn pledges by attacking the forces while a fragile peace held? Was Dauris ignorant? Dauris sided not with British law and diplomacy as some in SL who offered to defend him said. Most are convinced he being in Imperial stripes took the side of the terrorist LTTE supporters /demonstrators and SL Quislings.

Did Dauris think the Tamils had forgotten how over 300,000 of them, held hostage, were press ganged to act as human shields for the LTTE while Sampanthan acted deaf, dumb and blind as thousands were killed by the LTTE for attempting to escape? Did the TNA/ITAK help the 295,000 displaced Tamils rescued by the Army with even a bottle of water when the conflict ended on 19 May 2009?

What Dauris did was to confirm that nothing had changed in the TNA/ITAK leadership for the majority to ever trust them, far less reconcile themselves to Tamil ‘aspirations’. Dauris’ actions sent the LTTE/TNA/ITAK proxies in the UK into paroxysms of delight and claims. It confirmed the UK did not care a damn about its own proclamations and proscriptions of terrorist organizations. The UK’s double standards were once again confirmed.

Dauris also firmed in the idea that many, if not the vast majority, believed that the present government was willing to be a cat’s paw for Imperial interests as they sprawled on the floor every time they were threatened by the now fast becoming living embarrassment from the UK.

No wonder the vast majority thank Dauris for alienating the SL rulers just before the LG elections by supporting them arrogantly, without restraint and with gross insensitivity.

Dauris, thank you. You played a wonderful part in exposing the government’s frailties completely, confirming the impossibility to attempt any further reconciliation and reiterating you own pre conceived bias that transcends diplomatic norms among equals. You were an added catalyst to the splintering of a myth of good governance. The government was actually brazenly corrupt as you must have known. It made you believe SL was full of Ali Babas. You thought wrong. You confirmed the government’s determination to allow the schoolboys quietly tucked away in the hills to sing without thinking ‘God save the Queen’. What is the meaning of ‘send her victorious’ and ‘long may she reign’ to SL that was cheated out of her sovereignty and colonized using British troops? You are clever but not wise. You are very cheeky too.

We do not wish you will be declared ‘persona non grata’ as you hoped Brigadier Fernando would. We want you to witness the fruits of your indiscretions if not follies right here.

Dauris please remember this is also the 200th anniversary of the genocide committed by the British in Uva Wellassa. We have not forgotten. Have you? Go down there and see for yourself what the people there think of you.

Over 100 years ago at Paadeberg during the Anglo Boer war in South Africa the Boers under Cronje (not a cricketer) being besieged asked for their wounded to be buried unhindered, General Roberts VC refused and said he would only accept “unconditional surrender’. Cronje replied “… Nothing remains for me to do. You do as you wish.” The British opened fire with artillery. Although the Boer guerrillas were outnumbered 10 to one, their women and children were slaughtered. Contrast this with the SL Army at Nandikadal. When the Boers laid siege to Ladysmith they allowed all what they asked the British at Paadeberg. Being devout Christians they even stopped firing on Sundays.

Two ministers too lost fathers to LTTE suicide bombers, several ministers were killed. Please read Minister Navin Dissanayke’s letter to the British MPs who support the people who organize LTTE rallies. Read what the Deputy Minister of Defence has said and also the Army Commander. Try to get the message. Mind your business.

A. Patabendige

Colombo 05

Editorial Courtesy The Island

We thought coercion was antithetical to good governance or yahapalanaya. But, a prominent advocate of good governance has called upon the government not to baulk at anything in its efforts to overcome challenges to its rule. He has demanded that even measures that may not be in conformity with democratic norms be adopted for that purpose.

Ven. Dambara Amila Thera, addressing the media on Thursday, together with some prominent civil society activists, urged the beleaguered Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government, which is also experiencing internal problems, to appoint former Army Commander, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, the Minister of Law and Order to bring order out of chaos. He minced no words when he said Fonseka must be given six months to accomplish the task with the laws being made to fall silent, if necessary.

We are reminded of a government move to set up a special task force, headed by Fonseka, to tackle trade union struggles. The idea was floated at a Cabinet meeting in April 2017, but the government got cold feet when it drew a lot of flak from trade unions.

Field Marshal Fonseka’s speciality is fighting wars. Once a soldier always a soldier! He continues to walk like a soldier, talk like a soldier and act like a soldier. After all, he still wears military uniform. Is it that Amila Thera wants Fonseka to wage an all-out war on the enemies of the yahapalana government? He seems to believe the end justifies the means.

Ironically, what Ven. Amila now advocates is what the self-proclaimed good governance campaigners vehemently condemned when the Rajapaksa government was in power; they inveighed against that administration for resorting to coercive methods to suppress democratic dissent and remain in power. Politicians and their backers lay bare their true faces when they are faced with the prospect of losing power.

Meanwhile, Fonseka is a defeated candidate brought to Parliament via the National List and appointed a Cabinet Minister by the UNP in an undemocratic manner. His appointment raised many an eyebrow because he had not contested the last general election on the UNP’s ticket; it was tantamount to a slap across the face of the voter. The UNP badly lost at Saturday’s election in Kelaniya with Fonseka as its organiser. How can anyone who claims to be a lover of democracy call for using such a person to suppress dissent following an ignominious electoral defeat?

Among those sharing the podium with Ven. Amila, at Thursday’s media briefing, were some civil society leaders who make no bones about their support for the proposed war crimes tribunal to probe alleged accountability issues during the Vanni war in 2009. They did not approve of the state resorting to violence against even the LTTE. They cannot be faulted for what someone else said at a joint press conference, but it will be interesting to know what they think of the aforesaid desperate call for assigning the wartime army commander to shore up the government by hook or by crook? It is said that ‘he who is silent, when he ought to have spoken and was able to, is taken to agree’.

In 2015, people dislodged the Rajapaksa government, expecting a better deal. Before the regime change, the yahapalana camp thought the Rajapaksas would go to any extent to remain in power regardless of the outcome of the last presidential election. Nothing of the sort happened and President Rajapaksa conceded defeat even before the release of the final result. Strangely, those who threatened to take to the streets if the Rajapaksas tried to cling on to power have got so rattled by the results of the just concluded local government polls that they are demanding that even undemocratic means be employed to hold their opponents at bay. Good governance, what crimes are being committed in thy name!

By Anura Balasuriya Courtesy The Island

President Maithripala Sirisena told Joint Opposition (JO) MPs yesterday that he would consult the Attorney General and legal experts on the possibility of removing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as regards the provisions of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

The President said so when he met the JO parliament group members led by MP Dinesh Gunawardena at the President’s official residence in Colombo yesterday morning.

The JO MPs pledged to extend its fullest support for forming a UPFA government.

A committee comprising MPs Gunawardena and Minister Susil Premjayanth was appointed to iron out differences between the JO and the UPFA.

The JO group of MPs informed the President that they would support the UPFA government without obtaining any ministerial portfolios or official responsibilities.

Minister Susil Premjayanth, JO senior members Vasudeva Nanayakkara,Kumara Welgama, Wimal Weerawansa, Udaya Gammanpila, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, C. B. Ratnayake and Gamini Lokuge attended the meeting with the President.

MP Welgama jokingly told the President that the meeting was being held during rahu kalaya (inauspicious time). The President smilingly observed that the horoscopes of all those present were powerful and, therefore, there was not need for anyone to be worried.

Whe the JO MPs were informed that the SLFP wanted to appoint Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva the Prime Minister, Welgama said the JO was loyal to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and, therefore, it would not be part of any government with anyone else as the PM, but it would back an SLFP-led government without accepting ministerial posts.

Earlier in the day, Minister Premajayanth met former Rajapaksa and informed him that the President was exploring the possibility of establishing a UPFA government with the support of the JO group of parliamentarians.

At this meeting, the JO group members told the President that they had 50 MPs in their group and assured him that all of them could support the proposed UPFA government.

At this point the President told them that he would consult the Attorney General and legal experts to find out whether the 19th Amendment to the Constitution provided for the removal of the Prime Minister.

එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂය හා ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්‍ෂය අතර ජාතික ආණ්ඩුවක් පිහිටුවීමට වසර දෙකක කාලයක් සදහා අත්සන් කරන ලද අවබෝධනා ගිවිසුම කල් ඉකුත් වී අහෝසි වීමත් සමග රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ අගමැති ධුරය මෙන්ම කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයට බලශුන්‍ය බල රහිත වන බව නීතීවේදීහු පෙන්වා දෙති.

පසුගිය දෙසැම්බර් මාසයෙන් ජාතික ආණ්ඩු ගිවිසුම කල් ඉකුත් වූ නිසා එතැන් සිට මේ ගෙන යමින් ඇත්තේ නීති විරෝධී නීතියට පටහැනි ආණ්ඩුවක් යයි නීතීඥ ප‍්‍රතිභා මහානාම හේවා මහතා පවසයි.

මේ අතර අගමැති රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතා ධුරයෙන් ඉවත් කිරීම සදහ ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් නීතිපතිවරයාගේ මතයද විමසා ඇත.

එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානය පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ 113ක සරල බහුතර බලය පෙන්වා ආණ්ඩුවක් පිහිටුවීමට සූදානමින් සිටින අතර ඒ සදහා කඩිනමින් කටයුතු කිරීමට කමිටුවක්ද පත් කර ඇත.

නව ආණ්ඩුවේ අගමැතිවරයා ලෙස ඇමති නිමල් සිරිපාලද සිල්වා මහතා පත් කිරීමටද තීරණය වී තිබේ.

By Kusal Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror

The Local Government elections concluded a week ago may perhaps remain the only one in our history that created a major crisis in the Central Government. In fact as I wrote in my last Friday column that the fate of Sri Lanka has already been decided by other factors that led to the election after this Unity Government dodged voters for over two years.

By Charles.S.Perera

The Governments of all countries are at one time or another accused of corruption. The recent victims are Israel and South Africa. But no country in the world has made corruption an issue  at their election campaigns, as elections are conducted on other issues vital for the development, social welfare, security and defence of countries.

But Sri Lanka has been an exception, as the Presidential election campaign of the Present Government of Sirisena and Ranil Wickramasinghe  had no valid  issue for an election campaign  in a peaceful and rapidly developing Sri Lanka under the President Mahinda Rajapakse,  other than hollering a political slogan hastily  prepared by the secret services of the West, that  the  Rajapakse Regime is corrupt and are thieves and therefore the Rajapakse regime should be changed –Dhushana Mantharaya.

That worked as perhaps the people thought that though President Mahinda Rajapakse brought about peace , security and a higher standard of living to a people that had been suffering under terrorism for thirty years, it may be they are corrupt and stealing state funds.

The naïve people with their natural greed to always have more than what they already have , may have thought that if  there were to be a change, perhaps a new regime led by a simple farmer’s son  Maithripala Sirisena, and a Royal College educated  clean politician as they have been made to understand,   may recover what had been stolen by the Rajapakse Regime and give it back to the people assuring them a still higher standard of living, with more money in their hands.

Well, Ranil- Sirisena duo  promised a salary increase of Rs.10000,00 to all government servants and that would be the little drip which would signals the deluge of money  robbed by the Rajapakse Regime to  flow into every ones pockets . Hence except for the 58 lacks of honest Sinhala Buddhists the rest voted for the change of Regime  and more money to come to them.

But the Ranil Wickramasinghe, if he would come back to politics saddled with a naïve farmer’s son had other plans for himself and his UNP which had been denied the chance to dip their  hands  into the till containing  millions of dollars flowing into the country for various development projects of Mahibda Rajapakse Regime.

What happened after Sirisena Ranil duo came to power on the slogan down with corrupt thieves of the Rajapakse Regime- the Dushana Mantharaya, is now history ?

Poor Maithripala Sirisena who placed his entire trust in the hands of Ranil Wickrmasinghe – a clever political manipulator-a cunning fox, the Agent of the West,  abandoned the political party which nurtured him for 47 years  for the promise of the Presidency of Sri Lanka. On the 8^th January,2015 when Sirisena found himself  elected President , he became forever indebted to Ranil Wickramasinghe , and hated  President Mahinda Rajapakse who  considered him unfit to be even the Prime Minister.

To day we see to what extent Sirisena is attached to Ranil. Sirisena is ready even to give up the Presidency of the SLFP that was thrust upon him on the 9 th January, 2015, to continue even in defeat to be the lapdog of Ranil Wickramasinghe.

Maithripala Sirisena in taking his uncertain steps as a newly appointed President had a number of NGO operators like Srilal Laktilleke,Nimal Devasiri and Civil Society organisations, Ratana Hamuduruvo, Asoka and numerous others to advice him as to what he should do to give the people the expected change for which he was elected on the 8^th January, 2015.

They gave him the wrong advice, and while his Prime Minister was planning Bond Scams Sirisena as the President agreed to undo every thing Mahinda Rajapakse had undertaken . He suspended the Chinese Port City project along with other development projects started by the previous Rajapakse Regime.

He followed the wrong advice and as a result Sri Lanka is far more poor than it was on the 8^th January,2015.  There was no end of hollering of the Dushana Mantharaya- corruption  and the theft by the Rajapakse Regime. Ranil with his Batalanda Experience started the FCID to arrest the  thieves of the Rajapakse clan, its supporters and the members of the officials of the Rajapakse government.

Dushana Mantharaya repeated again and again showed no results it was just empty hollering to fool the people. But now the people refuse to be fooled- Dushana Mantharaya has no effect any more.

People who expected to profit from the loot the Rajapakse Regime was said to have accumulated  are dissatisfied  as no loot has been found,  but Sirsena Ranil Government continues to make a big noise harping on the same old boring slogan of corruption and theft  by the Rajapakse Regime and taking into custody only children , women and a few who did  nothing else but did their work.

But profiting from the situation instead of catching thieves of the Rajapakse Regime, the Prime Minister has organised looting the Central Bank.

The people having  had enough, took every opportunity to fill the meetings of the defeated President Mahinda Rajapakse, to show their disappointment with Maithripala Sirsena-Ranil Wickramasingha Regime .

We heard nothing but the Dhushanaya Mantharaya for the last three years  and northing else, and the people are fedup of it.

Finally the people got the opportunity at last at the  Local Government Polls on the 10^th February,2018 to show their disapproval of the Sirisena Ranil Government by a mammoth vote against the candidates put forward by  both Maithripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickramasinghe, and giving their votes to candidates presented by the political party Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna supported by the  President Mahinda Rajapakse, to show there regret for having changed the Rajapakse Regime to bring in a Sirisena Ranil Regime that stole from the people every thing they had gained from the former Rajapakse Regime.

Now  on the 10 February ,2018, at the Local Government election  the people have voted largely for the candidates of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna of Mahinda Rajapakse. The Sirsena Ranil Regime remains defeated before the eyes of the people. The democratic thing for any government which has seen a political party opposed to it has won a far greater  number of votes is to resign to respect the decision  of the people.

But when it was said from the beginning that the change of Rajapakse Regime was a collective effort of the Western Governments and India interposing the CIA,MI6 and RAW lot of people refused to believe it.

But, it became evident  when after the 10 February,2018 Sirisena- Ranil Government had been rejected by the people by their  vote for  the candidates put forward  by their opponent’s  political Party Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, the beleaguered” Sirisena and  Ranil were considering  separately their next moves available to them, the media reported that they saw the Ambassador  for USA in Sri Lanka Atul Keshup, and Taranjit Singh the High Commissioner of India driving in to Araliyagaha Mandiraya the Official Residence of the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe.

The outcome of the diplomatic advise would be for the President Sirisena and Prime Minister  Ranil to  come to terms and stay together, which they would continue to follow. Because for this Yahapalanaya the obedience to USA ,  West and India matters more than the people who vote for them.

In the meantime TV debates vie to find out why the people voted massively to  candidates of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna of the defeated Rajapakse Regime. Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna which has now become the most popular political party of the people say that the people have demonstrated  by their massive vote against the candidates of the political  parties in power, that they reject the Sirisena Ranil Government.

As  such Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna argues that the people has made use of the first occasion provided to them after three and a half year of the disastrous rule by the Yahapalanaya Government to show their distrust of the government and reject their continuation to rule the country.

Therefore, the accepted democratic norms require both the President and the Prime Minister to accept defeat and resign allowing the people to elect another President and have another Government.  

However, supporters of Sirisena Ranil Regime, the NGO’s Civil organisations  and Sirilal Laktilleke et al, who failed to advice correctly the President at the beginning come back again to give the President false hope,  and break further the trust of the people,  argue that that popular vote  for the candidates of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna is only a vote for the election of local PC Councillors and therefore has no bearing on the Government.

But it is apparent that people who expected so much from this government which began by giving the Government Servants a salary increase of Rs.10000,00 despite stopping their pension rights, has become poor and unable to live decently well and demands a replacement of the Yahapalanaya government which has failed to satisfy the demands of the people and which has  pushed the country deeper into an economic disaster by the Bank robberies, and bribery and corruption in construction of highways, distribution of employment for their political supporters etc.

Therefore the massive vote for the LG candidates presented by the  Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna is undoubtedly a vote against the Yahapalanaya Government of President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minster Ranil Wickramasinghe, and it is a statement that they do not want to be ruled further by  the YAHAPALANAYA Government.

Dhushana Mantharaya has not worked and it is time it is stopped and Yahapalanaya crowd says Good Bye to the people, allowing someone else bring back a little happiness to the people who had suffered in expectation for three years since 8^th January,2015

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි

මුළු මහත් රටත් ජාතියත් ඉදිරියේ, බොරු වපුරවමින් දුෂිත පාලනයක් පවත්වාගෙන යමින් සිටි වත්මන් රජය, මහජන බලපෑම මත, පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය, විකෘති ස්වරූපයක් ඊට aආරෝපණයකර, පවත්වන ලදී. පරජිතයින්ට වාසි වෙන, මේ අපුරු මැතිවරණ ක්‍රමයේ, ප්‍රතිපල, මේ වනවිට නිකුත්වී හමාරය. දුෂිත මැතිවරණ ක්‍රමවේදයක්, හා දුෂිත මැතිවරණ කොමිසමක් සමග කල මහා  සටනකින් පසුව, ජනතාව ජයග්‍රහණයක් ලබා ඇත. මේ ජයග්‍රහණයේ, වටිනාකමහි අගය අති විශාල වන අතර, එයට ජාතික වශයෙන් මහා බලගැන්වීමක් එක්කර ඇත. රටපුරාම බොරු වපුරවමින් ජනතාවගේ කාලය හා ධනය විනාශ කරමින් සිටි ජනාධිපතිවරයාට මුඛවාඩමක් දමා “පච කෙලින්නේ නැතිව පැත්තකට වෙලා හිටපන්” කියා ගොලුවෙකුගේ තත්වයට පත්කළ මේ මැතිවරණය තරම් අති විශිෂ්ඨ මැතිවරණයක් ලංකා ඉතිහාසය පුරා සරිසරුවද සොයාගත නොහැක. අපි කාලාන්තරයක් මුළුල්ලේ, ඉල්ලා සිටින; නිර්මාණය කලයුතු යයි, හඩ නගන; “අන්තර්ජාලීය පාර්ලිමේන්තුව” මහාජන සහභාගිත්වයෙන් මේ වනවිට ෆේස් බුක් එක හරහා නිර්මාණය වෙමින්, මේ මැතිවරණයේදී විශාල කාර්යභාරයක් සිදුකරන ලදී.

මැතිවරණය, ජයග්‍රහනයකින් කෙලවර වී තිබේ. මේ වනවිට මැතිවරණ ප්‍රතිපලය දෙස විවිධ කෝණ වලින් බලමින්, විවිධ මත පල කරමින්, මේ ජනතා ජයග්‍රහණයේ, ප්‍රභලත්වය හෑල්ලුවට ලක් කිරමට විවිධ පාර්ශවයන් පෙරමුණ ගෙන සිටින අතර, අපට අයත් කාර්යය වනුයේ මේ ජයග්‍රහණය ඉදිරියට මෙහෙයවන්නේ කෙසේද? මෙහෙයවිය යුත්තේ කෙසේද යන දෙකරුන සම්බන්ධ පැහැදිලි අරමුණක් කරා ලගාවීමයි. මෙරට ජනතාව, ජන මුලිකත්වයේ, පාලන වගකීම හා මාතෘ භුමියේ 70% බලය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂයන් වෙත පවරාදී ඇත. මේ භුමියේ පාලනයයේ වගකීම දැන් ඇත්තේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරයා යටතේයි. නමුත් රටතුල මීටපෙර ස්ථාපිත කල රජයක්ද ඇත. මේ අනුව එකම රටක් තුල රාජ්‍යන් දෙකක් මේ වන විට නිර්මාණය වි ඇත.

1.මෙය සැබෑ ලෙසම නවතම ජාතික අර්බුදයක ආරම්භයක් වන අතරම,
2.මෙය නව යුගයක් බිහිකිරීමට ලැබී ඇති අනගි අවස්ථාවක්ද වේ.

මේ අනුව මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ප්‍රමුඛ පොදුජන පෙරමුණට නිර්මාණිත නව ජාතික අර්බුදයට මුහුණ දෙමින්ම, නව සංවර්ධනය කරා රට මෙහෙය වන යුගයක් ආරම්භ කිරීමේ ක්‍රියාවලියට අත ගැසීමට සිදුව තිබේ. මේ නිර්මාණිත තත්වයන් තුල, පොදුජන පෙරමුණට ඉතා පැහැදිලි වශයෙන් පෙරමුණු බල ඇණි දෙකක නිර්මාණය කර සමාජය තුල ස්ථාපනය කිරීමට සිදුවේ. එය,

අ. දේශපාලන බල ඇණිය හා
ආ. පළාත් පාලන සංවර්ධන බල ඇණිය වශයෙනි.

දේශපාලන බල ඇණිය මෙතෙක් කල් සිදුකරගෙන ආ ආකාරයටම “මහින්ද සුළග ” නිර්මාණය කර ඉදිරියට ගෙන ආ කණ්ඩායම හා බද්ධව සිදුකල යුතු අතර,
පළාත් පාලන සංවර්ධන බල ඇණිය, බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා හා ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මග පෙන්වීම යටතේ නවතම යාන්ත්‍රනයක් ගොඩ නැංවිය යුතුයයි යනු අපේ යෝජනාවයි. අනාගත ප්‍රතිගාමීත්වය විසින් අයි මේ කටයුත්තට බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ හා ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂය යන නම් දෙක පමණක් යෝජනා කලේ යන පැනය අසන බව දන්නා මුත්; මේ වන විට මේ බිමේ නැති මේ යෝජිතය ගොඩනැංවීමට අන් කිසිවෙකුටත් වඩා සුදුසු කම් මේ දේපල විසින් පෙන්වාදී ඇති බැවින් මේ දෙපලට එහා ගිය චරිතයන් අපට මේ අවස්ථාවේදී සොයාගත නොහැක. එබැවින් මේ චරිත දෙක සම්බන්ධව අපි මදක් විමසා බැලිය යුතුය.

බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා “උතුරු වසන්තය” තුලින් වසර 30ක් පුරා විනාශයම දුටු උතුරු පළාත යලි පණගැන්වූ පුද්ගලයා වන අතර, ඔහු ඒ පණ ගැන්වූ උතුරු පළාතේ ජනතාවගේ චන්දයෙන් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතගේ රජය පලවා හැරමට ඉහළ තලයේ මෙහෙවරක් සිදු කරන ලද බව අපි දනිමු.

ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා  යුධ ජග්‍රහණයට දායක වුවෙක් පමණක් නොව ඉන්පසුව නාගරික් සංවර්ධන උදෙසා මහා මෙහෙවරක් කර කොලබ නගරය තුල ලොවට දැනෙන සංවර්ධනයක් සිදුකල අයෙකි. ඔහු විසින් පන ගැන්වූ ඒ නාගරික සංවර්ධනයෙන් පෝෂිතවූ කොලබ දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ නාගරික ජනතාව එකාවන්ව නැගීසිට මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ රජය පලවා හැරීමට මහාදායක්ත්වයක් පිරිනමන ලදී.

දැන් මේ දෙදෙනාගේ සේවය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂයන් අගයන මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂයන්ගේ සේවයේ අගය වටහාගත් ජනතාව ජීවත්වෙන පලාත්වලට ලබාදීමේ යාන්ත්‍රණයක් නිර්මාණය කළයුතුව තිබේ. මේ ලැබී ඇත්තේ ඒ සදහාවූ අනගි අවස්ථාවකි.

1.ඒ අනුව පොදු ජන පෙරමුණෙන් පළාත් පාලන ආයතන වලට  පත්වූ සියලුම නියෝජිතයින් කේන්ද්‍රගතකර දේශපාලන මධ්‍යස්ථානයක් ගොඩනැංවිය යුතුය. එම මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ සියලුම බලතල මේ දෙදෙනා අතට පත් කල යුතුය.

2. මේ සියලුම නියෝජිතයින්ට තමන් නියෝජනය කරන මැතිවරණ කොට්ඨාශයේ ප්‍රවර්ධනය සදහා කලයුතු කාර්යභාරයන් කුමක්දැයි වටහාදී ඒ කාර්යන් එම නියෝජිතයන් මාර්ගයෙන් සපුරාලීමේ ක්‍රමවේදයක් මේ නිර්මාණිත නව මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ අධීක්ෂණය යටතේ සිදු කලයුතුය. එසේ කිරීමට නම් පළමුව ජනතාව තුලට ගොස් ඒ ඒ මිනිසුන් මුහුණ දෙන සැබෑ ගැටළු අවබෝධ කරගෙන මේ පිහිටවනු ලබන මධ්‍යස්ථානයට දිනපතා වාර්තා කිරීමේ කටයුත්ත මේ නියෝජිතයින් කලයුතු අතර, මේ මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ කටයුත්ත විය යුත්තේ ඒ ඒ ගැටලුවලට ලබාදිය හැකි සාර්ථක විද්‍යාත්මක විසදුම මේ යයි හදුනාගෙන ඒවා විසදීමට හැකි මාර්ගයන් නිර්මාණය කිරීමයි. මෙය මේ නිර්මානාත්මන් මිනිසුන් දෙදෙනාට මනාව ඉටුකිර්මේ කාර්යට ඇත ගැසිය හැකි අතර එවිට අප සියලුදෙනාට එම මධ්‍යස්ථානයට සම්බන්ධවී  ඒ ඒ මැතිවරණ කොට්ඨාශයන්හි සංවර්ධන කාරයන්ට දායකත්වය සපයමින් ලස්සන සෞභාග්‍යය පිරි ගම්මාන නිර්මාණය කල හැක. ඒ සදහා බුද්ධිය හා  සියලු ශක්තිය පොදුජන පෙරමුණ නම්වූ මේ නව දේශපාලන පක්ෂයට ලැබේවායි අපි පතමු.

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA

In the run up to the local government election held on February 10^th we strangely found the four parties in the government the UNP, the SLFP, the JVP and the TNA accusing each other, blaming each other and condemning each other and these statements consisted mega lies, slanders, and denigrations, and some of which are presented underneath in the point form as flashbacks.

• The UNP successfully rebuilt the economy destroyed during the Mahinda Rajapaaksa era. We were handed over an empty harbour for which ships were not calling in and now ships are coming there.  If the villages need to be developed give complete power to the UNP.  – Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe addressing a UNP meeting at Nikaweratiya.
• Trincomalee port and the oil tank farm will be “developed” with the assistance of a Singapore firm and such a development of Trincomalee will directly benefit the North and East, including Vavuniya. – Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe addressing a UNP meeting at Nikaweratiya.
• Similar to all parties that converged around the UNP to get a new President elected in 2015 all parties have once again converged around the UNP for the February 10^th election as well. On the request off Minister Palani Digambaram, we increased the number of Pradeshiya Sabhas for the Nuwara Eliya and this is something that has not been done by any previous government.   – Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe addressing a meeting in Hatton.
• Hambantota harbour is not a white elephant we are getting income from it. We have two harbours (Hambantota and Colonbo) and two airports at Katunayake and Mattala. We are going to build a tourist hub and a trade hub centering these areas.  We will link Kandy with Trincomalee.   When we develop the Trincomalee harbour people of Vanni will get benefited. – Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe addressing an election meeting in Vavuniya. .
• It was to end bribery and corruption we came to power. Immediately after we came to power there had been a Bond Scam.  We did not hide it.  Bond scams is a good beginning.  We will punish the Bond Scams rogues. We appointed an opposition memher as the Chairman of COPE committee.   – Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe in a special statement issued on 18.01.2018.

·         EPF, ETF lost Rs.400 billion on Treasury Bond purchases from 2008 to 2014 That loss was the biggest fraud committed against the working class by the Mahinda Rajapaksa government. All the corrupt and criminal activities that had taken place under the Rajapaksa regime would be exposed. – The Prime Minister addressing the UNP’s 70th anniversary celebrations at Campbell Park, in Borella

·         We will streamline operations and relaunching the Mattala International Airport and the Magampura port in Hambantota by mid 2018. When these two facilities become re-operational, tourist arrivals to the Uva region will increase significantly with Ella being converted into a tourism zone.  – Prime Minister in a visit to Ella area.

·         A flyover will be built from Kelani brige to Colombo Fort. Construction of the Rajagiriya fyover was started by this government to ease traffic congestions.  An expressway network will also be constructed from Kandy to Hambantota and these are necessary to strengthen our economy.  Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasnghe addressing media at Rajagiriya.

·         We will import rice and coconut and we are ready to import vegetables as well.  There had been a change of weather patterns in the country.  While there were floods in some districts there were droughts in some other districts.  Steps wll be taken to impot rice and coconut till April this year.   Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasnghe making a special statement on rice imports.

• Although President Sirisena criticizes the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe at SLFP meetings there is no misunderstanding between him and the Prime Minister. The President is doing that only as a strategy to get the SLFP vote block increased.  The government will continue as it is now after February 10^th.  The allegation being made by the President that the economy was ruined by the Prime Minister has no basis because all economic decisions taken by the government were approved by the Cabinet headed by Sirisena himself.  – Minister Lakshman Kiriella addressing a meeting in Kandy.
• Since the present government has already won the world the time has now come to win the villages as well. The government already got all problems with foreign countries solved and the tea problem with Russia will also be solved shortly.  Without getting misled and stranded by going after other parties, extend the support for the UNP to win the February 10^th  Minister of Finance and Media Mangala Samaraweera addressing UNP candidates in Matara.
• Investigations on bribery and corruption during the previous regime are ongoing. All informion on Dubai accounts has been discovered.  One account has a deposit of 1086 Million U.S.Dollars.  Another account has 1,800 Million U.S.Dollars and in another account 500 Million U.S.Dollars.  I was an eye witness for these deposits. Funds misappropriated from the MIG deal has been deposited in a Hong Kong Bank. – Minister Rajitha Senaratne addressing the UNP’s 70th anniversary celebrations at Campbell Park, in Borella
• Udayanga Weeratunga will be brought back to Sri Lanka. Another nephew of Rajapaksas is hiding in the United States, he will also have the same destiny.  Gotabhaya should come to Sri Lanka and respond to his charges instead of issuing statements from America. – Minister Rajitha Senararatne addressing a meeting in Galle.
• President Siriena threatened to quit the National Unity Government expressing his anger over criticisms being made at him by UNP parliamentarians and stormed out of the the cabinet meeting. Afterwards the Prime Minister and several other Ministers wen to his office and brought him back after about 30 minutes following much persuasion. At the cabinet media conference the President’s long absence was described as that he went to answer a call of nature.  – Minister Rajitha Senaratne, Cabinet spokesman.
• All Rjapaksas will b imprisoned before the end of 2018. The symbol of those who are destined to get imprisoned is the ‘Flower Bud’.  MPs alleged to have been involved in manslaughter in the Ratnapra district are with the JO.  They have focused ttention on Beruwela.  I assure that we will become victorious in both councils in the Beruwela electorate – the Urban Council and the Pradeshiya sabha. – Minister Rajitha Senararatne addressing a meeting in Beruwela.
• It is the Flower Bud that is behind the independent group that is contesting for the Beruwela UC. They will get same fate as the fate that Rajapaksa got on January 8^th.  Bodu Bala Sena is a Rajapaksa Sena.  If Pohottuwa becomes victorious Bodu Baa Sena and the Rawana Balaya will raise their ugly heads.  Minister Rajitha Senararatne addressing a meeting in Beruwela.
• Soon after the LG elections Mahinda will be imprisoned and a suitable jumper is being sewed at the Welikada Prison – Minister Rajitha Senararatne addressing a media conferece..
• If the SLFP alleged the UNP as Bond Scams rogues, we are ready to expose all rogues in the SLFP. It was to cover up their corrupt activities and the SLFPers join the government and took up ministerial posts.  Those who worked for Mahinda Rajapaksa in the past are trying to advise us how we should run this government, and trying to override us.  – Minister Harrin Fernando addressing a UNP meeting in Badulla.
• The Kosgama Ordnance Storage was set on fire by the people of Mahinda Rajapaksa because there were 90 vehicles belonging to Mahinda Rajapaksa hidden there – UNP MP Nalin Bandara addressing a meeting held in Kurunegala
• The UNP is confident of clinching victory in about 275 of the 341 local bodies. The UNP, unlike the other parties is well organised at the grassroots level and the people were rallying under the UNP led United National Front banner, with several parties contesting under the Elephant Symbol in some councils. The UNP had proved to the people its commitment to good governance and the rule of law and the seeds of economic development had taken root under the UNP. – Deputy Minister Ajith P.Perera addressing a media conference at his Ministry.
• If President Sirisena is going to form a SLFP government with 96 UPFA members it can be established only in the Hell. The President is acting in the election by forgetting that he is the President of this country and acting only as the leader of his party, which would become third or fourth in the election. – Deputy Minister Ajith P.Perera addressing a media conference at his Ministry
• If President attempted at any time to remove Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe the UNP will definitely submit an impeachment motion against Sirisena in the Parliament. Even the support of the joint opposition will be solicited for such an impeachment motion. – Badulla District UNP MP Chaminda Wijesiri addressing a meeting in Badulla.
• Decision will be taken whether to continue with the coalition government or not after the February 10^th It is being looked into the possibility of forming a government with the TNA and the Muslim Congress.  – State Minister Wasantha Senanayake addressing a UNP meeting at Dmbulagala.
• President Sirisena’s statement on Bond Scams commission report was a political bribe. It was a statement made at an election time to take political advantage to one party and disadvantage to other parties.  It was the UNP that fixed all nuts of the President’s dysfunctional joints and made him to stand straight as a man with a firm backbone and gave a sword to his hand.  He should first use this sword against the rogues after February 10^th.  – Matale District UNP MP Mrs. Rohini Wijeratne Kaviratne.
• Although we assumed that President Sirisena is ours it was not like that. He says something in the morning and says an entirely different and contradictory thing in the evening.   His sword is sharp only one side and the other side is blunt. – UNP MP Thushaara Indunil addressing a UNP meeting at Ambanpola.
• The UNP will take actions to form its own government after February10th. By now we have learnt a good lesson attempting to work in a coalition government. We have only one leader and together with him we would win the forthcoming Provincial Council election as well.  – Badulla district UNP MP Chaminda Wijesiri

(To be continued)

Sudath Gunasekara

15.2.2018.

As I was listening to yesterday’s (14) 7 pm Hiru news bulletin, I saw Dr. P. Mahanamahewa explaining in detail how to deal with Arjuna Mahendaran in case if he does not turn up at the CID Office before the 15^th. Today is 15^th but still Mahendran, the third accused as I have stated before has not turned up.  Leaving aside the legal intricacies my question is, are we going to leave it at that. Suppose he never comes back and escape the Sri Lankan, then what next?

If that happens on whom are we going to fix responsibility regarding this mega robbery which has completely ruined a nation with spillover effects for decades and generations to come?

How the conspiracy was hatched and carried out ND BY WHOM

The whole country knows it was Ranil Wickramasinha who brought Arjuna Mahendran to Sri Lanka and got him appointed as the Governor of the Central Bank in spite of strong objections raised by the President, the Head of the State

It was he who invited him to come offering the Governorship of the CB

It was he who got the CB under him as pre-planned from the Finance Ministry.

It was he who took full responsibility for his selection and insisted that Mahendran should be appointed, when the President objected for his request to appoint his buddy

When the matter was raised in Parliament it was Ranil who defended him in the House on 17th March 2017

It was also Ranil who introduced the new system of Bond auctions as revealed by Arjuna Mahendran before the commission in his evidence

It was also Ranil who got the President to dissolve Parliament in August 2017 a day before the Dew Gunasekara COPE Report was to be presented to Parliament and thereby avoided the Report being debated in Parliament.

(This lapse led to the second Bond Scam the subject of the present debate)

He also appointed his own commission of Party lawyers and got Mahendran exonerated before the President appointed his Commission

Then he also wanted Mahendran appointed for a Second term which the President refused and got Coomaraswamy appointed

After that Ranil appointed Mahendran to another high post under his Ministry disregarding and ignoring his highly questionable role in the CB scam and also ignoring the President, probably thinking that it was he who got Mr Sirisena elected as the President, which is partly true.

When he was asked to give evidence before the Commission he got the Commissioners to send him a list of questions to be asked AT THE INQUIRY in advance carefully prepared, so that he can come prepared to answer them, perhaps designed to exonerate him.  This is like the Commissioner of Examinations sending the Question papers to a candidate and accepting his answer scripts at the examiners home and pass him with distinction.

He also got Ravi Karunanayaka the Finance Minister his confidante and Deputy Leader of the UNP to instruct all State Banks to bid at the auction at lower interest ( 9.5%) so that Ajun Aloysius, who was perhaps advised in advance either by Mahendran his father-in-law who was living with him in his home  or jointly by Ranil and Mahendran to quote 12.5 % interest as pre-planned.

He was also responsible for increasing the 10 Billion to 40 Billion as Mahendran has revealed in his evidence before the Commission

It was also he who got Sujiiva Serasinha, the Author of the famous Book on CB SCAM, appointed to the COPE as a member.

It was also he who sent Mahendran to Singapore when dark clouds were gathering over the sky.

(It is beyond comprehension how and why a suspect of such a crime was allowed to leave the country, unless there was some powerful intervention behind it). Ranil should know better than anybody else as to how he left Katunayaka Airport without any problem. Ranil knows better than any if Mahendran is arrested and grilled by the CID and by people like Dappula Livera and Kodagoda he will spill out all the beans and the entire gang of Alibaba and 40 thieves and all others who have jointly conspired, aided and abetted in different ways assigned to them by the leader, like writing books, adding foot notes and those benefitted directly or indirectly will be exposed.

In this backdrop I don’t think this man will ever come to Sri Lanka. The perpetrators must have done their homework so that he could be kept in hiding safely.

Why can’t the President or law enforcing authorities take action against Ranil taking these commitments as a personal a bond and serious crimes and take action accordingly? Of cause one could argue that he cannot be treated under that law as he has not duly singed a bond in court to that effect. Can’t it be accepted as a verbal bond under common law interpreting all what he has done as commissions and omissions against public interest?   I am sure what I have said here could be converted to legal jargon to frame the charges

Therefore the citizens of this country who are the owners of the Central Bank should demand the President to at least now arrest the Golden brain, whoever it is, that conspired, planned and executed this crime with a gang of thieves and who is also doing everything he could, under the sun to protect Mahendran his erstwhile friend for nothing but shear political and personal gain. I don’t think anybody needs to name him. The President should know it better than anybody else. So I leave it to him to decide. I do not know whether he will take the correct decision. But as responsible citizens it is our duty by the country and its people to raise these issues for public debate. If he takes the correct decision on this issue at least now I have no doubt that he will at least partially emerge out of the abysmal political mire in to which he has fallen, not because of anybody else’s fault, but only of his own fault and lapses and lack of far sight.  It will also open the doors for an entirely a new political culture in this country, free from corruption and misgovernment, which the people of this country have been desperately dreaming for decades.

Those of you who read this will know many more involvements and finer points than this. I beg your pardon for shortcomings in this note.

The background  for his selection

Mahendrans are Ranil’s Family friends and strong UNP supporters. Mahendran is also said to be his school mate at Royal. He has been appointed to several posts even in 2001 when Ranil became PM. During that time he also appointed Charless Mahendran, Ajun’s farther to the UN.  While he was there he is supposed to have given some vital secret information to Ranil bypassing Chandrika, over which Chandrika got damn annoyed and dissolved the Parliament making room for the 2014 General Elections that routed Ranil’s Government and sent him to the opposition. It is in this background one has to understand as to why Ranil brought Mahendran to the Central Bank

R Chandrasoma

The results of the recently concluded local-government elections are a lesson for demagogues of all species but it is a telling lesson to sanctimonious humbugs who mix politics with high morals and who attempt to portray political opposition as a heinous form of moral decadence. The High-Priest of this brand of political preaching is none other than the President of our ill-fated country. Like Jesus chasing the money-changers from the temple, the president of our country sees the political challenge as a moral drama in which the Righteous are pitted against the Sinners. And who are the Sinners? MR is the Anti-Christ and his party represents the Hordes of the Ungodly. He as accused these ‘dushitayas’ of crimes ranging from thieving whore-mongering and killing  to diverse forms of sin and political deceit. Free citizens were kidnapped in broad daylight and bumped off in the hours of darkness. Vast suns were swindled and the good things were distributed among friends. At he apex of this vast empire of Evil stood the Great Anti-Christ MR.

So declared the New Redeemer – MS – the supposed  scourge of the Ungodly. Unlike Jesus Christ his (MR’s) ‘religion’ was put to the test and was found woefully wanting. His apostles were routed and his ethical politics turned to dust. There is a lesson here for all politicians – when the ungodly take the moral high ground in politics the true Gods are offended and disaster follows. The Preaching President is the latest victim.

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island

What were the reasons for the governmental crisis? The UNP arrogantly attempted a political putsch. Having promised the people that it would form a UNP Only government if it won the Feb 10th election, which it was sure it would, the UNP then went on to make that attempt even after it resoundingly lost the election, securing 1.5 million votes less than in August 2015 and dropping by 13 %. In other words, having got a negative mandate for its slogan of a Government of Greens (plus the TNA), the UNP proceeded this week to threaten a grab for power. The UNP’s bid was/is a bloodless version of the anti-SLFP, anti-nationalist, rightwing coup attempt of 1962!

There was of course another, non-ideological dimension; one that was not present in 1962. A “pure UNP government” under its present leadership would hardly have been perceived as “pure”. Rather, it would be accurately seen by the President, the SLFP, the JO and the public as a Government of the Bond Scammers, by the Bond Scammers and for the Bond Scammers.

The SLFP reacted fast to pre-empt this scenario and was supported with conditions by the rising political power, Mahinda Rajapaksa’s SLPP-JO.

While the SLFP did worse than the UNP at the local election, it strongly felt that the debacle was the direct consequence of its close association with the UNP rather than its own deficiencies. This perception was well-founded in that their erstwhile colleagues and comrades in arms, the JO/SLPP had done extraordinarily well at the election by adopting an anti-UNP stance.

Since the SLFP and SLPP were together at the August 2015 parliamentary election it wasn’t rocket science to figure out what had gone wrong since. It was the alliance with the UNP, and specifically with the polarizing Prime Ministership of Ranil Wickremesinghe. The SLFP felt that not only was it paying for Ranil and Chandrika’s sins, it had also forfeited the chance of rapid electoral growth as demonstrably achieved by its former colleagues of the JO-SLPP.

The SLFP sees that between the SLPP and itself, they can garner a whopping 60%. This is an anti-UNP vote. Such a massive vote can see an SLPP-SLFP front easily winning any and all elections. All the SLFP needs to do is unhitch itself from the UNP which is an electoral millstone around its neck, and plug in with the SLPP which is on an upward parabola.

Hence the rebellion. It gave the UNP a chance: get rid of your radioactive leader as PM and we’ll stay with you, or else we’ll leave. The UNP chose to remain with Ranil Wickremesinghe as PM. It thereby ran the risk of losing power. However, in its arrogance which is based on its class prejudices and overestimation of the importance of Western backing, it thought it had eyeballed it with the SLFP and won. An example is the lead story on Feb 14th in EconomyNext, a sophisticated pro-UNP, pro-US website: “Sri Lanka PM out foxes naive Sirisena, gets cracking” authored by its Political Correspondent. By the very next day, the axe was poised to fall.

What the UNP and its backers, local and foreign did not know, was that its slogan of a ‘pure UNP government” or a UNP government backed by the TNA, would be perceived by both the SLFP and the SLPP-JO as a thinly disguised rightwing power grab; a peaceful coup. This threat perception would not have been so acute if the UNP had been led by a less polarizing figure than Ranil Wickremesinghe, but the party had decided to stick with him. Therefore, the slogan of a UNP government sounded like an attempt to seize power and implement a programme of the rapid sell off to the West and India, of strategic national locations and assets.

This swiftly brought about a convergence, however provisional, of the rival tendencies of the center-left, namely the SLPP-JO and the SLFP, under an anti-UNP or anti-Ranil umbrella.

The Tamil Dimension

The Southern electoral tsunami and the consequent governmental crisis has understandably obscured from view, important new trends in Northern politics. These trends not only speak well of the Tamil people but open up the possibility of serious negotiations at a future date with a political front that represents the South far more fully than does the current government.

In the all-important Jaffna district, the heartland of Tamil nationalism, a little over 18% of the vote at the recent local government election was obtained by a party led by a tough-minded pragmatist with solid anti-LTTE credentials—Douglas Devananda. In other words Devananda’s party not only got over three times the percentage obtained by the JVP in the Sinhala areas, it got a significantly higher percentage than the official SLFP did with all the benefits of state—and executive presidential–power.

It is impressive that while the five-party front, the ITAK, dominant in Tamil politics obtained 150 seats in the Jaffna District, 81 seats were won by Douglas Devananda’s EPDP.

EPDP has done relatively well in Jaffna district. It captured two PS in the islands and increased it percentage of votes significantly. For the first time, it has members in all the districts in the North and almost all the districts in the North and east. The EPDP has gone it alone. No one can now accuse EPDP of winning the votes with patronage. The Government was allied with the TNA and the EPDP had no source of state patronage. Even more significantly, the EPDP has won votes and seats at a time when Tamil nationalism was running high, and Douglas scores low on the pure Tamil nationalism index.

The TNA vote has gone down significantly all over North and East. TNA cannot form administrations in any Jaffna councils without EPDP support. They are sending feelers to the EPDP. The All Ceylon Tamil Congress of Gajendrakumar has increased their vote share in Jaffna. They do not have any significant presence in other districts. The Suresh front contesting with TULF has not made any impression.

In the East, the TMVP of Pillayan has gained impressive votes in some areas of Batticaloa.The main national parties have also made their presence felt among Tamil voters though on a small scale.

Douglas Devananda is back and is a player in Tamil politics.Once again Douglas comes into view as the last Tamil moderate standing, the sole viable negotiating partner for any Colombo administration whatsoever. He is the only one who will agree to the implementation of existing Constitutional arrangements for devolution and won’t make dogmatic demands which sink their Southern partners in Government –as the TNA, propelled by hawkish civil society and Diaspora sentiment and funding, has just done to the UNP and SLFP.

The Yahapalana strategy and model of January 2015 was the alliance of the majority of the minority and the minority of the majority. That model didn’t work for either the majority or the minorities. Until we are able to unite the majority of the majority and the majority of the minority, perhaps we shall have to be satisfied with transitional arrangement that inverts the Yahapalana alliance of January 2015. We can try a combination of the majority of the majority and the (moderate) minority of the minority. That’s where Douglas Devananda and his EPDP come in.

GSLF Media Release Global Sri Lankan Forum

14^TH Feb. 2018

We, the GSLF extend our warm congratulations to the SLPP for the electoral victory in the LG elections and the majority of the voters for opening the door for the change of the dangerous course followed by the Yahapalnaya Government.

We consider that the victory should be treated as a response of the nation to the frightened awareness of the dangers facing the country due to bad policies of the Government.

Therefore, to build on the confidence expressed by the majority of the citizens of the country we request the SLPP to take into consideration the following in redirecting the country’s destiny;

1. Immediately rehash the questionable culture of the local government elected personnel with a view to ushering in a phase of good and honest government. To send a message to the elected that they will have to create new approaches and attitudes in relation to handling of the issues coming within their purview, If a brand new dynamic policy platform is implemented as soon as possible, before long, the

SLPP’s stature will be strengthened at the National level where the voters will become confident of the critical nature of their vote and will use it effectively at the General and Presidential elections.

We consider this is a golden opportunity given to the SLPP to change the political culture of the country from grass roots level and we hope that the victors will grasp it to the benefit of the party and the people.

2. Two other critical issues facing the Nation are;

1. the attempts to destroy the unitary nature of the country’s constitution at the behest of the separatists and FNGOs,

1. the steps taken by the Yahaplanaya government to implement the notorious OHCR resolution based on erroneous reports which aim to punish our war wining members of the defence services and the indiscriminate harassment of some of the men in uniform by extra-legal means .

We request the SLPP to launch a program immediately at the local government level opposing the above harmful and detrimental steps and also to plan expressing opinion against both measures at the parliamentary and at national levels constantly to galvanize and force the Government to withdraw this pernicious agenda.

Finally, we REQUEST the SLPP to start working immediately on the above with vigor and not to relax and get into a comfort zone of lotus eaters who forget the realities, living in idleness and corruption.

Ranjith Soysa

Media Coordinator

For Global Sri Lankan Forum

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග

කාර්පේතියානු කඳුකරයේ වීණා වාදකයා
අසමසම වීණා වාදකයෙකු විය 
ඔහුගේ වාදනය දෙව්ලොවින් ආ ගීතයක් මෙනි 
සියළු දෙනා ඔහුගේ වාදනයට මන්මත්ව 
ඔහුගේ වාදනය පැසසූහ​

කාර්පේතියානු කඳුකරයේ වීණා වාදකයාගේ
යසස සිව් දෙස පැතිරුනේය​
ඔහුගේ වාදනය ඇසීමට රජවරු පවා ආහ​
ඔහුගේ වාදනයට සවන් දෙන විට දෙව්ලොව 
මිහිරක් සියළුදෙනාටම දැනෙන්නේය 

කාර්පේතියානු කඳුකරයේ වීණා වාදකයා
පිළිබඳව ඇසූ යක්‍ෂයාට වීණා වාදකයාට 
අභියෝග කරන්නට සිත් දුන්නේය  
යක්‍ෂයා මිනිස් වෙසක් මවාගෙන 
ඔහු ඉදිරියේ පෙනී සිටියේය 

වීණා වාදකය මම යක්‍ෂයා වෙමි 
තොප මා සමග වීණා වාදනය කොට
මා පැරදුවේ නම් මම තොපට රනින් නිම කල 
වටිනාකම කිව නොහැකි අනර්ඝ වීණාවක්
දෙන්නමි කියා යක්‍ෂයා කීවේය 

එහෙත් වීණා වාදකය යම් ලෙසකින් 
තොප මා සමග වීණා වාදන තරඟයෙන්
පැරදුනහොත් තගේ ආත්මය මා සතු වන්නේය 
කියා යක්‍ෂයා කීවේය​

කාර්පේතියානු කඳුකරයේ වීණා වාදකයා
යක්‍ෂයාගේ අභියෝගය භාර ගත්තේය 
ඔහු යක්‍ෂයාට බිය නොවීය​
තමාගේ දස්කම් ගැන ඔහු දන්නේය 

කාර්පේතියානු කඳුකරයේ වීණා වාදකයා
මුලින්ම කන්කළු වීණා වාදනයක් ඉදිරිපත් කලේය 
එම සිත් ගන්නා නාදය ඇසූ සියතුන් 
කාර්පේතියානු කඳුකරයේ වීණා වාදකයා
වටා පියාසර කළහ 

කාර්පේතියානු කඳුකරයේ වීණා වාදකයාට
නොදෙවෙනි වනු වස් යක්‍ෂයා තම බිහිසුණු
ඇඟිලි වීණාවේ තත් අතර යවමින් යක්‍ෂ රාවයක්
වාදනය කලේය 

යක්‍ෂයා වාදනය කල නිරයේ නාදය ඇසූ
සියොතුන් වහාම පළා ගියහ 
මිනිසුන් දෑත් වලින් තම කන් වසා ගත්හ 

මෙවර කාර්පේතියානු කඳුකරයේ වීණා වාදකයා
ආදරණීය ස්වරයක් වාදනය කලේය 
ආදරවන්තයෝ මොහොතක් නිසොල්මන් වූහ 

ඊට පිළිතුරු වස් යක්‍ෂයා 
අවමංගල්‍යය නාදයක් වාදනය කලේය​
එය ඇසූ මිනිසුන් ශෝකයෙන් භරිත වූහ 
පයින් ගස් වලින් පත්‍ර කඩා හැළුනේය  

මෙලෙස කාර්පේතියානු කඳුකරයේ වීණා වාදකයාත්
යක්‍ෂයාත් බොහෝ වේලාවක් යන තෙක් වීණා වාදනය කළහ 
හිරු බැස ගියේය රාත්‍රිය එලැඹුනේය 
එහෙත් තරඟය නැවතුනේ නැත 

අවසානයේදී කාර්පේතියානු කඳුකරයේ වීණා වාදකයා
යක්‍ෂයා දේවදූතයෙකු වූ කාලයේදී ඇළුම් කල 
පරාදීසයේ ගීතය නම් තනුව වාදනය කලේය 
එම තනුව ඇසූ යක්‍ෂයා තම අතීතය සිහිවී 
දුකින් පීඩිතව තව දුරටත් වීණා වාදනය කරනු නොහැකිව 
තරඟයෙන් පළා ගියේය 

කාර්පේතියානු කඳුකරයේ වීණා වාදකයා
අවසානයේදී යක්‍ෂයා පරාජය කොට 
තරඟයෙන් ජය ගත්තේය 

යක්‍ෂයා පොරොන්දු වූ පරිදි 
රනින් නිම කල වීණාවක් 
කාර්පේතියානු කඳුකරයේ වීණා වාදකයාට
තිළින කොට දුමක් සේ අන්තර්ධාන විය 

කාර්පේතියානු කඳුකරයේ වීණා වාදකයා
යක්‍ෂයා දුන් රනින් නිම කල වීණාව විකුණා 
සිටුවරයෙකු බවට පත් විය​
බොහෝ ඉසුරුමත් දිවියක් ඔහු ගත කලේය 
එහෙත් ධනවතෙකු වූ පසු ඔහු කිසි දින
තම වීණාව වාදනය කලේ නැත  

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග 

BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE

 lanka C news

අගමැති රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතා මූලික කරගත් එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂය නෙරපා දමමින් එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධාන ආණ්ඩුවක් බිහි කිරීම සදහා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ආසන 113ක බහුතර බලය පෙන්වීම සදහා වන ලිපියට අත්සන් ගැනීම ආරම්භ වී තිබේ.

මෙහ් පළමු අත්සන ඇමති නිමල් සිරිපාලද සිල්වා මහතා විසින් තබා ඇති අතර පිහිටවනු ලබන අලූත් සන්ධාන ආණ්ඩුවේ අගමැති ධුරය ඔහුට හිමිවනු ඇතැයි වාර්තා වෙයි. ඒ වෙනුවෙන් පිලිගැනීමේ උත්සව සූදානම් කරන්නැයිද ඔහු විසින් බදුල්ල දිස්ත‍්‍රික්කයේ සිය දේශපාලන ක‍්‍රියාකාරීන්ටද දන්වා ඇති අතර ඇමතිවරයා අද දිනයේ විශේෂ ආගමික වැඩසටහන් කිහිපයකටද එක් විය.

ලයිස්තුවේ දෙවැනි අත්සන ඇමති එස්.බී. දිසානායක මහතා විසින් තබා ඇති අතර තුන්වැනි අත්සන ඇමති ජෝන් සෙනෙවිරත්න මහතා විසින් තබා තිබේ.

ඇමති දයාසිරි ජයසේකර මහතාගේ නිවසේ සිට අත්සන් ලබා ගනිමින් ඇත.

ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්‍ෂයේ ආණ්ඩුවේ සිටින සියළු දෙනා විසින් අත්සන් තැබෙන මෙම ලයිස්තුව හෙට පෙරවරුව වන විට ඒකාබද්ද විපක්‍ෂයේ සිටින සියළු මන්ත‍්‍රීවරුන්ද අත්සන් කිරීමට නියමිතය.

ඒ අනුව අත්මන් 96 කින් යුතු වන ලයිස්තුවේ 113ක බහුතරය පෙන්වීම සදහා එක්ත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂයේ හා වෙනත් පක්‍ෂවල පිරිසකගේ අත්සන් ලබා ගැනීම සිදුවනු ඇති අතර පස්වරුව වන විට ජනාධිපතිවරයා වෙත එය බාර දී සන්ධාන ආණ්ඩුවක් පිහිටුවීම සදහා අනුමැතිය ඉල්ලා සිටීමට සූදානම් වෙමින් ඇත.

Shenali D Waduge

According to the UK Terrorism Act of 2000 it is a crime to wear or carry any item portraying reasonable suspicion of support to a proscribed organization. In 2001, UK proscribed LTTE as a foreign terrorist organization together with 45 other foreign terrorist organizations. In 2009 Tamil demonstrators in London were carrying flags of Tamil Eelam and were arrested by the UK Metropolitan Police. If UK Metropolitan Police arrested Tamils for carrying LTTE flags in 2009 what stops UK taking action in 2018?

There are 2 factors that the UK Government & the UK citizens need to take cognizance of.

Firstly, terrorism & terrorists are not only Islamic & Muslim. None of Al Qaeda/ISIS terrorism come anywhere near to that committed by LTTE in over 30 years covering suicide, assassination, international illegal crimes including narcotics, human smuggling. Al Qaeda did not have its own airforce or naval force and Al Qaeda did not kill any foreign leader on foreign soil for contract – but LTTE did. The former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was said to be killed on a foreign contract by the LTTE. Can Britain feel safe when they know they have allowed hardcore LTTE cadres to seek asylum in the UK just to spite the former Sri Lankan Government? We are dealing with a group of people who have murdered babies, unarmed civilians, clergy, public officials, politicians, their own cadres and even a world leader. Does UK know exactly how many of these killers are presently living in the UK? According to Wikileaks 2007 LTTE operatives had stolen 130,00 Norwegian passports and sold them to the highest bidders including the terrorists of Al Qaeda.

The woman who trained children & women to kill and commit suicide happily lives in the UK while LTTE proudly operates its international office in London since 1970s.

https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/emailid/1234033 / http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/5761

Secondly, it’s one thing to chide the Sri Lankan Government about various issues but if LTTE has been proscribed in the UK then the UK cannot allow ANYONE (white British, Asian British or Sri Lankan asylum seekers) to carry anything associated with LTTE or allow anything associated with the LTTE to be held in the UK. Is this too difficult for the UK Government to comprehend? Afterall, UK is spending taxpayers money to even establish a unit under the Scotland Yard Anti-Terrorism in London to monitor LTTE activities.

Let us remind UK that the LTTE lasted 30 years because of the foreign funding and material support provided to purchase arms/ammunition/communications equipment & training & the monies were raised from every country that LTTE has been banned. Moreover, it is not that these LTTE fronts have been ONLY innocently raising money to a ‘cause’ in Sri Lanka – they have been swindling these foreign countries & their citizens – credit card scams, registering as charities to enjoy tax free exemptions, money laundering, hawala system of money transferring – in short they have mastered the art of creeping through every loophole in foreign systems and every country has enough of reports on these actions & the culprits. Why has no action been taken against them?

What is the use in spending for a unit that does investigations and meekly watches a banned LTTE make fools of British law enforcement & make the world laugh at the British Government?

For the benefit of all, let’s just look at some of the clauses in the UK Terrorism Act relevant to the inaction by UK against LTTE supporters.

Section 12 (1) A an offence is:

1. a) inviting support for a proscribed organization
2. b) Support, is not / not restricted to the provision of money or other property as per

section 15

Section (2) A an offence is committed if he arranges, manages or assists in arranging or managing a meeting which he knows is-

1. Supporting a proscribed organization
2. To further activities of a proscribed organization
3. Addressed by a person who belongs or professes to belong to a proscribed organization

Section (3) A an offence is committed if he addresses a meeting and the purpose of his address is to encourage support for a proscribed organization or to further its activities

Section 13 (1) A an offence is committed

1. Wears an item of clothing
2. Wears, carries or displays an article in such a way or in such circumstances as to arouse reasonable suspicion that he is a member or supporter of a proscribed organization

In case people have forgotten LTTE stands for Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, their leader was Velupillai Prabakaran & this is their flag. So by virtue of the UK proscribing LTTE in 2001 everything associated with LTTE will automatically be proscribed including its flag & other emblems. In other words glorifying a terrorist organization is an offence. So when any protestors cry Our Nation – Tamil Eelam, Our Leader – Prabakaran, what were the British law enforcement authorities doing?

However, before & even after 2001 the LTTE supporters in the UK have been flouting all the British anti-terror laws & getting away with it. This makes LTTE proxy the TNA included into the list. Giving visa to TNA to participate in pro-LTTE events is thus questionable. To be removed from even guilt by association the UK and certainly the Sri Lankan Government need to launch a thorough investigation & exonerate TNA leaders from association with LTTE. So far both UK & Sri Lankan Governments have not done so.

They have held LTTE events, they have put up massive cut-outs & posters of LTTE leader on stages where UK politicians have also spoken. UK police even launched an investigation into MPs Keith Vaz & Virendra Sharma attending a pro-LTTE rally in 2007 to which messages of ‘support’ was received by London Mayor Ken Livingstone & MP Simon Hughes. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/British-police-launch-probe-into-pro-LTTE-rally/article14900948.ece so what was the outcome of the investigation or was it just to satisfy the complaint made? The list of UK MPs openly associating with organizations associated with LTTE are many. An investigation & look into their bank accounts will reveal the reasons why.

In 2009 UK Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson said
During the last 43 days these pro-LTTE supporters had been there around the clock, waving flags with the Tiger insignia in violation of the UK anti-terrorism laws. In addition, they had been creating cacophony of noise, beating drums and taking over the streets surround Big Ben and the Parliament. These actions cause traffic chaos, crippled the transport system and caused untold suffering to the general taxpaying British public”.

According to UK Independent newspaper the Metropolitan Police had even confiscated LTTE flags which represented the proscribed group. A police spokesman said they had issued “repeated requests” for flags bearing images representing the Tamil Tigers – a proscribed organisation in the UK – to be removed.” Two protesters were held on suspicion of carrying a flag supporting a proscribed organisation, under the Terrorism Act 2000.

If this was the case in 2009 wherein the UK Metropolitan police took action against LTTE flags going so far as to even arrest supporters why was no action taken on 4 February 2018 outside the Sri Lankan High Commission? The issue of the Sri Lankan Defense Attache is a totally different matter, the main issue is that LTTE is banned in UK and UK Terror Act explicitly says nothing associated with the proscribed terrorist organization is to be allowed, so what is the UK Government & Metropolitan/Scotland Yard doing allowing terrorist supporters to disrupt and disturb the peace?

Here’s some homework for the UK Government & Metropolitan Police/Scotland Yard

• How many pro-LTTE organizations operate in the UK with websites that carry the LTTE logo & other LTTE insignia?
• How many of these pro-LTTE organizations have been investigated for links & whether they have breached UK laws or swindled UK tax payers
• How many of the pro-LTTE organizations are directly or indirectly connected to Tamils that had been arrested & charged for aiding & abetting terrorism by UK
• How many UK MPs have been investigated for monetary handouts by LTTE which would explain why they are so interested in the affairs of Sri Lanka other than attending to their own constituencies.

In time to come the other terrorist organizations on the UK proscribed list are going to use the example of LTTE and say ‘if they can brandish terrorist flags & honor their terrorist heroes, so bloody well can we’ and the UK Government & police will be left gobsmacked and left to keep a stiff upper lip only.

For any British wanting to know the truth there are simple questions to ask & find answers

• Genocide – take the Tamil population statistics & wonder how numbers can increase if people are being killed
• War Crimes – where are the names of the supposed to be dead people, are there mass graves & where are the 40,000 skeletons. No one can answer but its great just to keep drilling ‘war crimes’
• LTTE missing – has the UK stopped to find out how many illegal Tamils are in the UK, they may find their missing cadres!
• NGO reports – look at who is funding it, the persons they are associating with & then things will become a lot clearer!

Without falling prey to theatrics, drama and Goebells, just seek the truth yourself.

Shenali D Waduge

http://archives.dailynews.lk/2009/04/09/sec20.asp

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1184251/Tamil-demonstrators-bring-central-London-standstill-protest-Sri-Lankan-military-offensive.html

තිස්ස ගුණතිලක සිඞ්නි සිට

පසුගිය පෙබරවාරි 10 වනදා පැවැත්වූ පලාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයේ ප්‍රතිඵල නිවැරදි ලෙස විග්‍රහ කරනු ඇතැයි බලාපොරොත්තු වුවත් එසේ නොවුනු කල මෙවැනි ලිපියකින් ඔබ දැනුවත් කිරීම සුදුසු යයි හැඟුන බැවින් ලියමි.

පලාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය සදහා ප්‍රධාන ධාරාවේ පක්ෂ 5ක් තරග වැදිනි. රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා නායකත්වය දරන එජාප යත්. මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා නායකත්වය හා සභාපතිත්වය දරන ශ්‍රීලනිප ප්‍රධාන එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සංධානයත්, මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ආශීර්වාදය ලද ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණත්. ආර් සම්බන්දන් මහතා නායකත්වය දරන ඉංලකෙයි තමිල් අරසු කච්චි පක්ෂයත් සහ ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුනත් යන පක්ෂ පහයි.

මැතිවරණයේ ප්‍රතිඵල අනුව එනම් ජනතාවගේ තීරණය අනුව ඉහත සදහන් එක් එක් පක්ෂයට පලවූ ජනතා කැමැත්ත අනුව ඒ ඒ පක්ෂය මුලු පලාත් පාලන ආයතන 340 කින් පහත සඳහන් ලෙස ආයතන සංඛ්‍යවන් දිනාගෙන ඇත;

ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ – ආයතන 232

ඉංලකෙයි තමිල් අරසු කච්චි පක්ෂ – 43

එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය – 34

ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය ප්‍රමුඛ එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සංධානය – 9 ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුන – 0 (එකම ආයතනයකවත් බලය හිමිකරගෙන නැත)

අනෙකුත් සියඑම පක්ෂ හා ස්වාධීන කන්ඞායම් – 22 (මහරගම, බේරැවල, බන්ඞාරවෙල, තිරප්පනේ ඇතුඵ ස්වාධීන කන්ඞායම් ජයග්‍රහණය කල පලාත් පාලන ආයතන 8 ක්ද තරඟ කලේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ආශීර්වාදය ලබාගෙනය.)

මෙවර පළාත් පාලන ආයතන ඡන්ද විමසිමේ ප්‍රතිඵල වලට අනුව බහුතර පළාත් පාලන ආයතන සංඛ්‍යවක බලය හිමිකර ගැනිමට මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ආශීර්වාදය ලැබූ ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ සමත් වී ඇති අතර මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා නායකත්වය හා සභාපතිත්වය දරන ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය හතරවැනි ස්ථානයට පත්වී ඵෙතිහාසික පරාජයක් වාර්තාකර ඇත. තවද බලයේ සිටින රජයක් පලාත් පාලන ඡංදයකින් පරාජයට පත්වූ පලමුවන අවස්ථාවද මෙයයි. මෙය සිරිසේන මහතා ලැබූ පෙෳද්ගලික පරාජයකි.

ලැබූ ජයග්‍රහණයක් අවුරැදු තුනක් ඇතුලත කනපිට පෙරලවාගන්නට යහපාලන රජයේ ප්‍රතිපත්තීන් හා පසුගිය අවුරැදු තුන තුල ක්‍රියාකල ආකාරය සමත් වී ඇත.

පලාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයකින් පවතින රජයක් වෙනස් කල නොහැකි වුවත් ජනතා තීරණයට පිටුපෑමටද රජයට නොහැකිය.

ජනතා තීරණය මෙසේ වීමට ප්‍රධාන කරැනු කීපයක් තුඞු දුන්නත් ඒවා ගැන විවිධ ලිපි අවශ්‍ය තරම් පලවී ඇත.

ලුහුඞින් පැවසුව හොත්; හම්බන්තොට වරාය වැනි මහත්පල ගෙනදීමට නියමිත මහානර්ග ජාතික වස්තුවක් නොරටුන්න පැවරීම (රනිල්), එම ජාතික විනාශයට ඉඞදීම  (සිරිසේන), අනවශ්‍ය විවස්ථා සම්පාදනයකට අර ඇදීම (රනිල් සහ සිරිසේන), මලසිරැරැවල කෑලි මිහිදන් කරමින් සිටි ජනතාවකට සාමය ගෙන දී ජීවිත දානය ලබාදුන් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂයන්ගේ ප්‍රජා අයිතිය නැතිකිරීමට පිඹුරැපත් සැදීම (රනිල් සහ සිරිසේන), රණවිරැ දඞයම (රනිල්) හා රණවිරැ දඞයමක් නොදන්නාසේ හැසිරීම (සිරිසේන) , එතෙක් පැවති සහන කපාහරිමින් ජනතාව පෙලීම (රනිල්), මහ බැංකු බැදුම්කර වංචාවට සම්බන්ධවූවන්ට මෙතෙක් දඞුවම් නොපැමිනවීම (සිරිසේන), සිය ජීවිත කාලයම රටවෙනුවන් කැපකල මහින්ද රාජපකෂයන්ට එරෙහිව කිසිම ඔප්පුකල චෝදනාවක් නොමැතිව ඔහුට හොරා හොරා යනුවෙන් සමාජ ජාල තුල හා මාධ්‍ය සකච්චාවලදී චෝදනා කිරීම (මහ මැතිවරණයේදී පරාජයට පත්වූ එහෙත් සිරිසේන පත්කල  මැති ඇමතිවරැ/රනිල්) යන මෙකී නොකී සියඑම කරැනු කාරනා සිරිසේන හා රනිල්ගේ පක්ෂ වල පරාජයට හේතු භූත විය.

සිරිසේනගේ විකල්පය

සිරිසේනට පවතින රජය වෙනස් කිරීමට හෝ රනිල් අගමැති තනතුරෙන් ඉවත්කිරිමට හෝ පලාත් පාලන මැතිවරණ ප්‍රතිඵල යොදා ගත නොහැක, මන්ද පාර්ලිමේන්තුව තුල තවමත් බහුතරය රනිල් සමග බැවිනි (බහුතරය රනිල්ට ලබාදුන් ආකාරය අප සියඵ දෙනා දන්නා කරැනකි). පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසිරවීමටද මෙම ප්‍රතිපල යොදා ගැනීමේ සාධාරනත්වයක්ද  නැත. නමුත් ජනතාව වෙනසක් ඉල්ලයි. ඒ බව ඡංද ප්‍රතිපල වලින් ඕනෑවටත් වඞා පැහැදිලි වෙයි.

සිරිසේනට තවදුරටත් පැවතීමට නම් කලයුතු, කලහැකි කරැනු දෙකකි.

1.තමා විසින්ම වංචාවක් සිදුවී ඇතැයි පිලිගත් හා ඒ සම්බන්ධව කරැනු කාරනා සෙවීමට පත්කල කොමිසමේ වාර්‍තාවට අනුකූලව මහ බැංකු බැදුම්කර වංචාවේ චූදිතයින් සම්බන්ධව ජනාධිපති බලතල ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීම. තමා ජනපති ලෙස ඔවුන්ට නිසි දඞුවම් ලබාදෙන බවට දේශපාලන වේදිකාවේ පසුගියදා පොරොන්දුවූ බවද මතක්කරනු කැමැත්තෙමි. චූදිතයින්ට දඞුවම් කිරීමට බලතල නැතිවුවත්, ඔවුන් තව දුරටත් මැති ඇමති තනතුරැවල රදවාගෙන මහජන මුදලින් නඞත්තු කිරීමේ සාධාරනත්වයක් හෝ සදාචාරයක් ජනපතිට තිබිය නොහැක. එනිසා සියඵම චූදිතයින් පාර්ලිමේන්තු තනතුරැවලින් වහාම ඉවත් කොට ඔවුන් සම්බන්ධව දැනට පවතින නීතිය යටතේ ක්‍රියා කිරිමට නිතිපතිට යොමුකල යුතුය. මෙහිදි මහ බැංකු වාර්තාවේ සදහන් සියඵම දෙනා සහ ‘ෆුට් නෝට් කල්ලියේ’ සැම දෙනාම එකසේ නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තු ක්‍රියාදාමයට යටත් කල යුතුවන්නේය.

2.පසුගිය අගෝස්තු මහ මැතිවරණයෙන් පරාජයවී ජාතික ලයිස්තුවෙන් පත්කල හා පලාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයේදීද තම අසුනට අයත් සීමාවේ පවතින පලාත් පාලන ආයතන ජයග්‍රහණය කිරීමට අසමත්වූ සියඵම ඇමැත්තන් එම තනතුරැවලින් වහාම ඉවත්කල යුතුය. ඔවුන් තව දුරටත් එම තනතුරැවල රදවාගෙන මහජන මුදලින් නඞත්තු කිරීමට සාධාරන හෝ  සදාචාරාත්මක  හේතුවක් දැන් ජනපතිට ඇත්තේම නැත.

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        තනි එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුවක් පිහිටුවීම පිණිස දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානය සමග එකතු වීම සිදු විය හැකි යයි අනාවැකි පළ වෙමින් ඇත.මැතිවරණ සමයේ එකිනෙකට බැණ ගනිමින් විවේචනයක් යෙදුණද එම රංගනයෙන් ඉවත් වෙමින් ජනාධිපතිවරයා එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයට සහය පළ කිරීමට කැමැත්තෙන් සිටී.දොන් ජුවන් ධර්මපාල මෙන් අද ඔහු තනිවී ඇත.ඒ අතර විදෙස් තානාපතිවරුන් මැදිහත්ව සභාග ආණ්ඩුව එලෙසම තබා ගැනීමට කේවට්ට උපදෙස් දෙමින් සිටී. මේ වෙට්ටු සියල්ල බලය රැක ගැනීමටයි.පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයේ දී දිස්ත්‍රික්ක දහනවයක් ජයග්‍රණය කරමින් පොහොට්ටුව ලකුණින් තරඟ කළ පොදුජන පෙරමුණ සටහන් කළ බලය නිසා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව රැක ගනිමින් ඉදිරියට යෑම රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ බලාපොරොත්තුව  බවට පත් වෙමින් ඇත.මේ වෙට්ටුව කුමක් සඳහා දැයි අවබෝධ කරගැනීම ඉතා වටනේය.

         2015 යහපාලන රජය බිහිකර ගැනීමට මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා ඉදිරියට දමා තරඟ කරගැන්ම අත්‍යවශ්‍ය විය. ජනප්‍රිය නායකයෙකු නොවූ රනිල් මේ උපක්‍රමය යොදන ලද්දේ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ බලය තහවුරු කර ගැනීම උදෙසාය. බලාපොරොත්තු වූ පරිදිම ජනාධිපතිවරණයෙන් පසුව ජාතික ආණ්ඩුවක් යනුවෙන් සභාගයක් පිහිටුවා සුළුතර බලයකින් රනිල් අගමැති බවට පත් විය. එය වඩාත් තහවුරු කරගැනීමට දහනව වන ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය ගෙනෙන ලද්දේය. ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ බලතල අඩුකරනු ලැබූ අතර පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසිරුවා හැරීම තීරණ ගැනීම ආදී කරුණු අගමැතිවරයාට පවරා ගැනීම සිදු විය. මේ නිසා ජනාධිපතිවරයා අගමැති ගේ සිරකරුවකු බවට පත් වීම වළක්වලිය නොහැකි විය. ව්‍යවස්ථාදායක සභාව හරහා පත් කරන ලද ඇතැම් පත්වීම මෙන්ම මහ බැංකු ප්‍රධානියාගේ පත්වීමද අගමැතිවරයාට අවශ්‍ය පරිදි සිදු කිරීමට ඉඩ දී නිහඬව බලා සිටීමට සිරිසේන මහතාට සිදු විය. භාණ්ඩාගර බිල්පත් අරභායා මහා වංචාවක් සිදු කරන ලද්දේ මේ නීත්‍යානුකූල නොවන පත්වීම හරහාය.එතනදී අගමැති වරයාගේ අණට ඉහළින් කිසිවක් ක්‍රියාත්මක නොවුණි. රට බෙදෙන ව්‍යස්ථා සංශෝධන ගෙන ඒ මේදී රණවිරුවන් මෙන්ම භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා අත්අඩංගුවට පත් කිරීමේදී  අගමැතිවරයා තම හිතුවක්කාර පිළිවෙතෙහි සිටියේය.ජිනීවා යෝජනා සඳහා සම අනුග්‍රහය දකවමින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා හමුදාව යුධ අපරාධ කළ බවට ලක් රජය පිළිගන්නා ලද්දේ අගමැතිවරයා මෙන්ම මංගල සමරවීර ඇමතිවරයා ගේ හිතුවක්කාර ක්‍රියාකලාපය නිසාවෙනි.

        මේ අතර උතුරේ මහ ඇමති විග්නේශ්වරන් සිය ජාතිවාදී ප්‍රකාශ මගින් දෙමළ ජනතාව කුලප්පු කරන ලද්දේය. ශිවජිලිංගම් සමබන්ධන් ඇතුළු නායකයන් සිටි උග්‍ර ජාතිවාදී මත ගෙන හැර දක්වමින් සිංහල ජනතාව වෙත වෛරය පතුරුවා හරින ලද්දේය. උතුරේ හමුදා කඳවුරු එකින් එක ඉවත් කරන ලද අතර සාලාව අවි ගබඩාව පුපුරුවා හැරීමකට ලක් කෙරිණ.සංහිඳියාව සඳහා යයි කියමින් දෙමළ බසින් ජාතික ගීය කීම ඇතුළු රටේ නීතියට එරෙහි සියළු කාරණා සිදු කරන ලදී. රිෂාඩ් බද්යුදීන්ට විරුද්ධව නැගුණු ජනතා හඩ යටපත් කරන ලදී. ඒ වෙනුවට නිරපරාදේ රණ විරුවන් බිල්ලට දෙමින් අතුරුදහන් වූවන් සඳහා කාර්යාල පණතක් හොර පාරෙන් සම්මත කරගෙන ඇත. ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ ජනමත විචාරණයකට යා යුතු ඇතැම් වගන්ති පාර්ලිමේන්තුවද නොමග යවමින් සංශෝධනයට ලක් කොට ඇත. මේ සඳහා දිගින් දිගටම මැතිවරණය කල් දැමුණු අතර ජනතා හඩට කන් නොදෙමින් එට්කා ගිවිසුම බලාත්මක කරලීමට රජය ක්‍රියා කරමින් තිබේ. එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ රජයේ ප්‍රමුඛ අරමුණ වී තිබෙන්නේ උතුර සහ නැගෙනහිර  දෙපළාත එක් කරමින් සන්ධීය පාලන ක්‍රමයක් දෙමළ දේශපාලනඥයන්ට ලබා දීමයි. යහපාලන රජය පිහිටුවීම පිණිස උදව් උපකාර කළ විදෙස් බලවේග සතුටු කිරීම මෙහි බලාපොරෙත්තුවයි. සිරිසේන මහතා කැමැත්තෙන් හො අකමැත්තෙන් මෙයට එකඟ කරවාගෙන තිබෙන්නේ ඔහු ජනපති පුටුවේ බැඳ තබා ඇති බැවිනි.

       කෙසේ හෝ 2018 පෙබරවාරි 11 වනදා පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය පවත්වන ලද්දේ වසර තුනකට ආසන්න කාලයක් කල් මරමිනි. මේ කාලය තුළ කෙතරම් දේශපාලන පළිගැනීම මත සිංහල ජනතාව පීඩනයට පත් වුවුද ඔවුහු වීදි නොබැස්සහ. උතුරේ මහඇමතිවරයා  ගේ කුපිත කිරීම් මධ්‍යයේ වුවද ඉතාමත් සාමකාමීව මේ කාලය ගත කර තිබේ. වරක් දෙවරක් නොව කීප වරක්ම ජාතිවාදී කෝලාහල අවුළුවා සිංහල ජනතාව මහපාරට බැස්සවීමට රජය උත්සාහ කරනු දක්නට ලැබුණි. එය සාර්ථක නොවිණි. කෙසේ හො මේ වසර තුන සිංහල ජනතාව පිට පීඩනය මුදා හැරීමට කටයුතු කරන ලද්දේ අප්‍රකටවයි. එහෙත් මහින්ද රජාපක්ෂ මහතා එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානයෙන් මිදී පොහොට්ටුව නමැති පක්ෂයෙන් තනිව තරඟ කිරීමට තීරණය ගත් විට ජනතාව ඔහු වෙත රොද බඳිමින් එහි ජයග්‍රණය වෙනුවෙන් කැප කළහ. එහි ප්‍රතිඵලය අද අප ඉදිරියේ දක්නට තිබේ.මෙතෙක් තම හදවතේ කැකෑරෙමින් පැවති කෝපය කලකිරීම මැතිවරණය හරහා ප්‍රකාශ කරමින් සිංහල ජනතාව විශිෂ්ඨ දේශපාලන පරිචයක් ප්‍රදර්ශනය කොට ඇත.

            රට්ටු කිසිවෙක් තවමත් පොහොට්ටුව ගැන නොදනී. එහි සභාපතිවරයා සහ ලේකම් වරයා ගැනවත් ඇතැම් විට නොදනී. එහෙත් එම කණ්ඩායම විදෙස් ගැති යහපාලන රජය පරාජය කරලීමට ඉදිරිපත් වූ ජාතික බලවේගයක් ලෙසට ජනතාව හඳුනාගෙන ඇත. එහි නායකත්වය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා දරණ බවද ඔවුහු දනී. එම නිසා පොහොට්ටුවේ ව්‍යවස්ථාව කුමක් වුවත් මේ අවස්ථාවේ දී දුෂ්ඨ බලවේගය බිම දැමිය හැකි හොඳම ප්‍රතිමල්ලවයා පොහොට්ටුව තුළින් මතුවන බව ජනතාව විශ්වාස කළහ. පොහොට්ටුවේ නාම යෝජනා ඇතැම් තන්හි ප්‍රතික්ෂේප වද්දී වෙනත් ලකුණකින් තරඟ කළ ස්වාධීන කණ්ඩායමකට පවා ජනතාව විසින් චන්දය දෙන ලද්දේ මේ හේතුව නිසාවෙනි. කෙසේ වෙතත් ජාතිකත්ව සමගියෙන් යුතුව 2010 දී ප්‍රකාශ කලා සේම මේ අවස්ථාවේදීද එම හැසිරීම මතවාදීව මනාව ඉදිරියට දමා තිබේ.එහෙත් එම ජන මතයට හිස නමා ඒ අනුව වැඩ කිරීමට පොහොට්ටුවේ පිරිස සූදානම් දැයි තවම සැකයක් තිබේ. මෙම පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය පවත්වන ලද්දේ කඩිමුඩියේ සම්මත කරගත් සීමා නිරණ පණත් සහ කමිටු වල නිර්දේශ අනුවයි. එහිදී සියයට තිහේ නියෝජනය වෙනුවට සියයට හතළිහ නියෝජනය සම්මත කර ගැනීමට එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයට සහ ෆයිසර් මුස්තාපා කණ්ඩායමට  මෙන්ම ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණටත් අවශ්‍යව තිබුණි. එයට ප්‍රබල විරෝධයක් ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයෙන්ද එල්ල නොවුණි. එහි ප්‍රතිඵලය දැන් දක්නට ලැබේ.පොහොට්ටුව විසින් ජයග්‍රහණය අත්පත් කරගන්නා ලද ඇතැම් පළාත් පාලන ආයතන වල බලය මනාප ලැයිස්තු මන්ත්‍රී වරුන් හරහා ඩැහැ ගැනීමට එ.ජා.ප.ය උතසාහ කරමින් ඇත. විශේෂයෙන්ම නුවරඑළි දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ  කුකුළා ඉදිරියෙන් ඇති නිසා කුකුළාට එකතු වී එම පළාත් පාලන අයතනයන්හි බලය පිහිටුවීමට පොහොට්ටුව තීරණය කර තිබේ. ඒ අනුව හැටන් නගරයේ පෙළපාලි යමින් සිටි තොන්ඩමන් මන්ත්‍රීවරයාට එකුතු වී සී.බී.රත්නායක මන්ත්‍රී වරයා දැක්වූ රංගනය පොහොට්ටුවේ ජන මතයට හිස නැමීමක් නොවේ.එහෙත් කුකුළාට දක්වන සෙනෙහස බුලත් කොළයට දක්වා රට තුළ ජයග්‍රහණය කරන ලද පළාත් පාලන ආයතන වල බලය පිහිටුවීමට තවමත් උත්සාහයක් ගෙන නැත.

   යහපාලන රජය විසින් ගෙන එන ලද පළාත් පාලන පණතේ සංශෝධන මගින් පරාජයට පත් වූ පක්ෂ වලට වඩා වැඩි නියෝජනයක් ලබා ගැන්මට අවස්ථාව සලසා දී තිබේ. එම තත්ත්වය මත ජය ග්‍රහණය කරන ලද ඇතැම් පාළන ආයතන වල බලය මුදල් වීසි කර ලබා ගැන්මට පරාජිතයන්ට හැකියාව ලැබී ඇත. මෙම ක්‍රමය මගින් අමු අමුවේම ජන වරම කොල්ල කනු ලබති. මේ ක්‍රමය අගයමින් මැතිවරණ කොමිසමේ සභාපතිවරයාද නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කර තිබීම මගින් හැඟවෙන්නේ රජය මැතිවරණ කොමිසම ආදී සියලුම පාර්ශව එක් කරගෙන මෙවැනි ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍ර විරෝධී තීරණ ගත් බවයි. අඹගමුව ප්‍රාදේශිය සභාව තුනකට කැඩීමේ නියෝගය ලබා ගෙන තිබෙන්නේ අගමැතිවරයා ප්‍රමුඛ කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයයි. සීමා නිර්ණ කමිටුවේ තීරණයක් නොවන බැවින් එයද නීත්‍යානුකූල නැත. එහෙත් එයට විරුද්ධව පැනවූ නඩුව විසි කර තිබේ. කෙසේ වෙතත් මේ සියළු නීති විරෝධි ක්‍රියා ආපස්සට හරවා නිවැරදි කරලිය හැක්කේ රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ප්‍රමුඛ දුෂ්ඨ බලවේග මේ පාලනයෙන් ඉවත් කර ජනමතයට එකඟ ජාතික බලවේගයක් පත් කර ගැනීමෙන් පමණකි.කොනප්පු බණ්ඩාර එදා යමසිංහ බණ්ඩාර ප්‍රමුඛ විදෙස් බලවේග පරාජයට පත් කරන ලද්දේ උඩරට භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා මුල් කරගත ජාතික බලවේග සමග එක්වීමෙනි.මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ඇතුළු පොහොට්ටුවට ජනතා පූජාසනයේ පිපෙන්නට වරම් ලැබෙන්නේ එවැනි ක්‍රියාවකිනි.

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අගමැති රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතා එම ධුරයෙන් ඉවත් කර නව එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානය යටතේ නව අගමැතිවරයෙක් පත් කර ආන්ඩුව ගෙන යාමට එම සන්ධානය බහුතර බලය පෙන්වීමට සූදානම් වෙයි.

මේ වන විටත් එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්දානය විසින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ බහුතර බලය පෙන්වීමට සූදානම් බව ජනාධිපතිවරයා වෙත දන්වා තිබේ.

එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්දාන මහ ලේකම් ඇමති මහින්ද අමරවීර මහතා විසින් ජනාධිපතිවරයා වෙත ලිපියක් යොමු කරමින් පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ තව දුරටත් රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතා අගමැති ධුරයේ තබාගෙන කටයුතු කිරීමට සූදානම් නැති බවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ බහුතර බලය පෙන්වීමට සූදානම් බවත්ය.

ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින්ද මෙම ඉල්ලීම පිලිගෙන ඇති අතර ඉදිරි දිනක හෝ දෙකක් කාලය ඇතුලතදී පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ 113 දෙනෙකුට වැඩි පිරිසකගේ අත්සන් සහිග ලිපියක් ජනාධිපතිවරයා බාර දීමට නියමිතය.

එජාපය ඉවත් කරන සන්ධාන ආණ්ඩුවක් පිහිටුවන්නේ නම් විපක්‍ෂයේ සිට ඊට සහයෝගය ලබා දෙන බවත් ඉතා ඉක්මනින් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයක් කැදවිය යුතු බවත් ඒකාබද්ද විපක්‍ෂය දැනටමත් සදහන් කර ඇත.

පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ බහුකර බලය පෙන්වීම සදහා අගමැති රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතාට ලබා දී තිබූ කාලය අද පස්වරුවෙන් අවසන් වී ඇත.

මේ අතර වාර්තා වන්නේ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂයේ මැති ඇමතිවරුන් 30කට ආසන්න පිරිසක් නව ආණ්ඩුවට එක්වීමට නියමිත බවයි.

පත්වන නව ආණ්ඩුවේ අගමැතිවරයා බොහෝ විට නිමල් සිරිපාලද සිල්වා මහතා විය හැති බවදටද වාර්තා වෙයි.

By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Vasantha Senanayaka recently said he has reasons to believe that the Sri Lanka’s foreign policy is decided upon externally by foreign powers. The country now wonders if last week’s decision to recall Minister Counsellor, Brigadier Priyanka Fernando attached to the Sri Lanka High Commission in London was taken due to foreign pressure. The Minister Counsellor (Defence) was recalled following the allegation that he had acted in a threatening manner during a protest staged by some pro-LTTE groups outside the Sri Lankan High Commission in London on Sri Lanka’s Independence Day.

“The officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have a pro-West slave mentality and it is pathetic that they have fallen to the lowest ebb by serving the interests of not only the West, but the Diaspora’s,” lamented former Justice Minister Wijayadasa Rajapakshe. In a letter to the President Maithripala Sirisena to thank him for revoking the Foreign Ministry’s decision, to suspend and recall Minister Counsellor Brigadier Priyanka Fernando, Rajapakshe described the arbitrary act of the Foreign Secretary Prasad Kariyawasam was ‘traitorous”.

Several Ministers, including senior-most leaders, Susil Premajayantha, Anura Priyadarshana Yapa and Mahinda Samarasinghe vehemently criticized the ill-advised act of the Foreign Ministry.

In a swift damage control act, President Maithripala Sirisena had revoked the Foreign Ministry decision to suspend Brigadier Fernando. An irate President Sirisena had lambasted the Foreign Ministry officials for suspending the officer without inquiring into the matter. The President had pointed out that he should have been consulted before deciding on the removal of the Minister Counsellor from the post.

Even after the President had revoked the suspension order, some of the officials tried to ignore his directive. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mahishini Colonne told State-newspapers that she had not received any information regarding the reinstatement order by President Sirisena. This was stated by Colonne more than 10 hours after all the websites had reported about the Presidential order to revoke the suspension of Brig.Fernando. Then, the question arises, if such an ignoramus is suitable to be the spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry, which in fact is the mouth of Sri Lanka to the rest of the world.

If she had made a false statement deliberately, the Government should look into this seriously as it could be a deliberate attempt to tarnish the image of the President.

Furthermore, there were severe criticisms about some decisions taken by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the recent past. There were accusations that customarily, Sri Lanka’s casting of votes in the United Nations and other world bodies were based on pressure from powerful Western countries, especially the United States, and the decisions on voting were not taken in the interest of Sri Lanka. President Sirisena as well as Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had blasted the bunglings made by the Foreign Ministry officials on several occasions, before. Once, Wickremesinghe said that he would introduce a new Foreign Service in the country as he believes that there is ‘no Foreign Ministry in Sri Lanka.’ New State Minister of Foreign Affairs Vasantha Senanayaka too criticized the arbitrary acts of the ministry officials.

There is no question whatsoever; the action of Brig. Fernando was absolutely unacceptable. As a diplomat, one should not indulge in such behaviour. However, before taking any action which is to recall him immediately, there should have been an inquiry.

Furthermore, the provocations made by the LTTE separatists must also be taken into consideration before punishing the official.

The protest was organized by a group called Tamil Solidarity in the UK, which is an arm of the LTTE. The protesters have displayed flags of the banned terrorist group and shouted slogans to glorify the LTTE and its late leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. They also had committed sacrilege by burning the Sri Lankan flag.

In the aforementioned circumstance, the military officer had gesticulated that Sri Lanka Army has succeeded in eliminating the LTTE, further he had made that most debated gesture only to show the supremacy of the Security Forces over the terrorists, therefore that should not be interpreted as an anti Tamil gesture.

Last week, a resident of Jaffna, Ravi Kumar said that he did not see any wrong in the action of Brig. Fernando as the demonstrators were terrorist supporters and their strategy is to disrupt communal harmony prevailing in Sri Lanka. “These separatists never come to Jaffna, but they shout slogans to raise funds for their ill-conceived separatist agenda,” he said.
While Ravi Kumar clearly showed that he could understand the Sri Lankan ethos, some of the Foreign Ministry officials are blind to the sentiments and sensitivities of their countrymen. The Foreign Ministry officials may be well aware of Western diplomacy, but they do not understand socio-political issues of Sri Lanka. If they had even little knowledge about political sensitivities, they would not have issued such a recalling order to a highly regarded Military Officer on the eve of an important election in Sri Lanka.

However, one should not jump to the conclusion that all in the Foreign Service are misfits. This service has produced such greats like Jayantha Dhanapala, Vernon Mendis, Bernard Tilakaratna, H. M. G. S. Palihakkara, Rodney Vanderghert and many others ,also there is no doubt, there are bright young SLOS officers who would rise to such eminence in the years to come.

What is essential to restructure the Foreign Ministry is, to get rid of deadwood as well as the officers who are puppets in the Western hands and give opportunities to those who are not only efficient and skilled, but also who know the country and its people.

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today

When a foreign delegate lands in Sri Lanka, the Tamil National Alliance wastes no time in lamenting to them about the delay in installing the new Constitution. When Prince Edward, the Earl of Essex, came on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II for the 70th Independence celebrations, it was no different.

TNA spokesman M.A. Sumanthiran whined about the snail’s pace at which the “problems of our people” are being sorted by the “lethargic” Government. Prince Edward listened very patiently before responding that the Royal Family would support the British Government’s stand. Hence, it would be pertinent to understand the British Government’s stand.

The former British High Commissioner liked to call Britain, Sri Lanka’s traditional friend. Queen Elizabeth’s message, too, articulated her hope that the relationship between the UK and Sri Lanka “continue to flourish in the years to come”. History however disagrees that Britain has ever been Sri Lanka’s friend.

One need not travel all the way to the 1815 great betrayal by Great Britain or the Uva-Wellassa freedom fight that was inhumanly suppressed by the British. One need not even visit the systematic censure of our language, culture and heritage to the point where our own country’s name and our national flag were almost erased from our memory. The UK’s conduct in the last decade is enough to understand what kind of friend Britain has been to us.

In 2009, when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were about to be decapitated, the British Government brought immense pressure on the Sri Lankan Government to back off. The then British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, came in person with his French counterpart Bernard Kounchner. Eventually, the war time President Mahinda Rajapaksa had to remind the duo that Sri Lanka is no longer a British colony.

Had they succeeded in halting the military efforts, it would have given the LTTE much needed respite to recuperate from the severe beating they were getting. Then, would Sri Lanka have ever experienced peace as we do now since 2009? This is extremely doubtful. Had the LTTE survived as the British Government intended, how many lives would have been destroyed from that point onwards? After all the 1987 Indian misadventure offers a real life example.

When Rajiv Gandhi interfered and twisted the then Sri Lanka Government’s arm into halting the military operations, the only purpose it served was to give the LTTE another two decades of life. The controversial 13th Amendment that the Indian Government twisted the Sri Lanka Government’s arm into accepting has been an absolute white elephant. When the British government sent their foreign secretary on his despicable mission, did they understand the consequences they were asking us to bear?

Indeed, during the last 30 years of terrorism, the successive British Governments simply turned a Nelson’s eye to the LTTE atrocities and their blatant crimes against humanity. Except for the occasional mild condemnation, Britain remained stubbornly oblivious to the ever increasing atrocities of the LTTE against hapless Sri Lankan civilians. Though the LTTE became a proscribed organization, its key leaders, such as Sri Lankan born Anton Balasingham and his Australian wife Adele, continued to retain their British citizenship.

Even to date, Adele, who has extensively documented and published her role in the LTTE, is living in Britain free from any persecution. This at a time when the British Government has joined the lead forces of the international community demanding accountability from the political and military hierarchy who gave decisive leadership to end terrorism in Sri Lanka.

This is deeply shameful conduct by the British Government. As revealed by Lord Naseby in 2017 in British Parliament, Sri Lanka forces did not turn the warfront into a killing field. They had in fact absorbed far more casualties than they ought to have, so as to maximize civilians’ survival. His source was the dispatches sent from the British High Commission in Sri Lanka by its defense attaché Lt. Col. Anton Gash during this volatile period. When cross checked with other reliable sources, he found Gash’s assertions correct.

It is whilst having this information in hand that the former British Premier David Cameron turned his visit to Sri Lanka in 2013 into a media freak show. He came as a delegate of the 23rd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting that was held in Colombo.

He broke all protocol expected from a State Head as he ran to Jaffna and back. What he actually achieved from this orchestrated circus is anyone’s guess.

It is interesting that during the three decades of terrorism, the ones who suffered the most were the Tamils caught in the terrorist-infested areas. At one time, it was estimated that over 5,000 children – some as young as eight-nine – were held forcibly for combat purposes. During LTTE’s time, abductions were rampant of youngsters, opponents and those who failed to comply with the LTTE. Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera, who played a crucial role in the war, recalls the daily oppression ordinary Tamils in these areas suffered. He explained that all Tamils without exception had to pay daily “taxes” to the LTTE. If they failed, the punishment was so harsh that many opted to commit suicide than face the LTTE’s wrath.

At a recent interview with an international media channel, a former terrorist belonging to a rival group of the LTTE charged that the LTTE is responsible for the disappearances of more than 30,000 Tamils. He challenged whether the LTTE ex-cadres can account for at least 30 of them.

The LTTE is also responsible for wiping out almost the entire Tamil political leadership. Today, all that remains are the likes of R. Sambanthan and Sumanthiran. They were so intimidated by the LTTE that they accepted the terrorist organization as the Tamil’s sole representative, whilst becoming its political proxy. Sumanthiran who complained bitterly to Prince Edward about the PTA prisoners, involuntarily disappeared persons and land acquisitions never uttered a word when the LTTE committed all these sins.

Interestingly, it was not only the Tamils in these areas that suffered. Even those living in countries like the UK were caught in the extremists’ tentacles. They were regularly forced to fund the terror machine with arms, propaganda and to buy legislators.Though of Sri Lankan origin, they have since become British subjects and yet the British Government failed to protect them — the basic obligation of any Government. Had they executed their responsibility, they would have withered a terror network long before 2009, and would have saved so many lives.

Ironically, as Sri Lanka celebrated ridding British occupation, in London a raucous group carrying the LTTE flag, shouted slogans such as that Prabakaran was their leader. The Sri Lanka defence attaché Brigadier Priyanka Fernando was seen reacting to the hooligans by drawing his finger across his throat. The two British MPs, Labour Party MP, Siobhain McDonagh and Joan Ryan, formerly of the Labour Party parliamentary group, current policy advisor to UK headquartered Global Tamil Forum lost no time in condemning him and asking for his expulsion.

They claim the Tamil community congregated peacefully outside the Sri Lanka High Commission to protest the on-going persecution of Tamils in Sri Lanka. Brigadier Fernando’s gesture was intimidating and therefore inappropriate and unacceptable. Curiously, they leave out the fact that this “peaceful” group was carrying the LTTE flag — a group proscribed by the British Government. The British Police just stood and watched. Prabakaran was a psychopath who destroyed an entire nation for three decades. Claiming him as their leader is nothing less than provocation. How come these two do not find these inappropriate and unacceptable?

Furthermore, they claim that the Tamils are being persecuted in Sri Lanka. When Prabakaran was alive, Tamil children were forced into slavery and to becoming cannon fodder. Now they go to school. Is there a better example to show life for Tamils with and without the LTTE?

Sumanthiran need not worry. The Earl of Essex, as a guest of the Sri Lanka Government, had to be diplomatic. Hence, his cryptic message that the Royal Family would support the British Government’s stand. In other words, Sumanthiran has the support of the Royal Family.

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එජාප මැතිවරණ පරාජයේ පශ්චාත් මරණ පරීක්ෂණය පවත්වන එජාප මරණ පරීක්ෂකවරුන් විසින් අපූරු සොයාගැනීමක් කරගෙන තිබේ. ඔවුන් පවසන්නේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන්ගේ ඡන්ද ප්‍රතිශතය 2015 ජනාධිපතිවරණයට සාපේක්ෂව අඩු වී ඇති බවත්, මෛත්‍රීපාල+එජාප+ජවිපෙ එකතු ව ඉල්ලුවානම් එය එදා 2015 ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ ප්‍රතිශතයට වඩා වැඩි බවත් ය. නමුත් මෙම තර්කය පදනම් විරහිත පට්ට පල් කෙප්පයකි. ඊට හේතු පහතින්.

[1]. 2015 ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී හංස සධානය ඡන්දය ඉල්ලුවේ එකම ප්‍රතිපත්තියක් ජනතාව වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කරමිනි. ඔවුන් එකිනෙකා විවේචනය කර ගත්තේ නැත. ඒ අනුව ඔවුන් එකම දේශපාලන ප්‍රවාහයක් ලෙස සලකා ජනතාව ඡන්දය දෙන ලදී.

එනමුත් මෙවර එජාපෙත්, මෛත්‍රීපාලත්, ජවිපෙත් වෙන වෙනම ඡන්දය ඉල්ලන ලදී. ඔවුන් එකිනෙකා බරපතල ලෙස විවේචනය කර ගත් බව ඔවුන්ගේ මැතිවරණ කතා දෙස බැලීමෙන් ඔබට පැහැදිළි වේ. මේ සියලුම දෙනා පොහොට්‍ටුව විවේචනය කරන අතරේ, මෛත්‍රීපාල පැවසූයේ එජාපය හොරු බවයි. එජාප හොරුන්ට පාඩමක් ඉගැන්වීමට තම පක්ෂයට ඡන්දය දෙන ලෙස ඉල්ලුවෝ ය. එජාපය පැවසූයේ මෛත්‍රීපාල ගාව සිටින්නේ හොරු බවයි. තනි එජාප ආණ්ඩුවක් පිහිටවීමට එජාපය ඡන්දය ඉල්ලුවෝ ය. ජවිපෙ කිව්වේ ඒ දෙගොල්ලොම හොරු බවයි.

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ඒ අනුව එජාපෙ කෙරෙහි කළ කිරුණ එජාප පාක්ෂිකයන් මෛත්‍රීපාලට හෝ ජවිපෙට ඡන්දය දෙන්නට ඇත. නමුත් ඔවුන් එකතුව ආවානම් ඒ කාටවත් ඔවුන් ඡන්දය නොදී ගෙදර සිටිනු ඇත. එලෙස වෙන් වෙන්ව පොරොන්දු සහ සටන් පාථ කියමින් තරග වැදුණ පක්ෂ වල ඡන්දය එකතු කර පෙන්වීම තරම් මෝඩ වැඩක් ලොවෙත් නැත.

මෙය උදාහරණයකින් කිවහොත්, ශ්‍රී ලංකාව, එංගලන්තය සහ අයර්ලන්තය සහ ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව ක්‍රිකට් තරගාවලියක් පවත්වා ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ජයග්‍රහණය කළා යැයි සිතමු. එවිට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව දින්නට වැඩක් නෑ. සුදු ජාතිකයන්ගේ රටවල් වන අපේ රටවල් වල ලකුණු එකතු කළොත් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව උඩින්ම පරාදයි” කියා ඒ රටවල් කිවහොත්,,, අන්න ඒ වගේම මෝඩ කතාවකි මේ එජාපේ සමහරුන් කියන්නේ. අතනදී ඒ රටවල් එකම ටීම් එකකින් ආ යුතුයි වගේම, මෙතනදීත් හංස සංධානය තනි පක්ෂයකින් ආවොත් මිස වෙන් වෙන්ව ඉල්ලා අපි වැඩියි කීම ජාත්‍යන්තර විහිලුවකි.

ෆේස්බුක් එකේ පළ වූ තවත් කදිම උදාහරණයක් මෙන්න.

 

[2]. එජාපයේ ඡන්ද පදනමට වූ දේ එජාප පශ්චාත් මරණ පරීක්ෂකවරුන්ට හසු නොවීමත් පුදුමයකි.

2015 පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයේදී එජාපය තනිව තරග වැදුන අතර එහිදී එජාපය ලබා ගත්තේ ඡන්ද 5,098,916 [මූලාශ්‍රය]

නමුත් 2018 පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයේදී එජාපය ලබා ගත්තේ ඡන්ද 3,625,510 කි. [මූලාශ්‍රය] කොහොමද වෙනස?

එදා සිටි එජාප පාක්ෂිකයන් මේ වන විට මිලියන 1.5 ක් පමණ සිය පක්ෂය ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කර ඇත.

[3]. ඒ අතර මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන් තනියම ඇවිත් 2015 පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයට වඩා ඡන්ද ලබාගෙන ඇත.

2015 පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයේදී  මහින්ද+මෛත්‍රීපාල එකතුව ලබා ගත් ඡන්ද ප්‍රමාණය 4,732,664 [මූලාශ්‍රය]

නමුත් 2018 පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයේදී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන්ගේ පක්ෂය තනියම ලබා ගත් ඡන්ද ප්‍රමාණය 4,968,762 දක්වා වැඩි විය. [මූලාශ්‍රය]

[4]. අප ජනපතිවරණ සටනක සිටියේ නැත. පක්‍ෂයක මැතිවරණ උපක්‍රම හා ප්‍රචාරයන් ඉලක්කගත වන්නේ ඉන් අපේක්‍ෂිත අවසන් ප්‍රතිඵවලට සාපේක්‍ෂව ය. පොහොට්ටුවට අවශ්‍ය වූයේ හැකි තරම් ආයතන දිනා ගැනීම මිස ඡන්ද ප්‍රතිශතය සියයට 50 ඉක්මවා යෑමට නොවේ. ප්‍රතිශත මෙහි දී අදාළ නොවන්නකි.

[5]. 71% ක ඉක්මවා ගිය පළාත් පාලන ආයතනය ප්‍රමාණයක් (340න් 239ක්) ලැබීම සිතා ගැනුමට පවා නොහැකි ප්‍රතිශතයකි. පොහොට්ටුව තනිව පළාත් පාලන ආයතන 239 සමග සභිකයින් 3,369ක් (44.65%) සහ ස්වාධීන කණ්ඩායම් 3 ක්, තිරප්පනේ නයා, මහරගම බයිසිකලය, මහියංගන රයිනෝ ද ජයගෙන ඇත. ඒවා ඉහත ගොන්නට එකතු වී නැත. එජාපය (රනිල් + මනෝ ගනේශන් + රිෂාඩ් බදියුදීක් + රාවුෆ් හකීම්) යන සියල්ල ද සමග ලබාගෙන ඇත්තේ 32.63% කි. සභික ප්‍රමාණය 2385කි. කෙසේ වෙතත්, තනි එජාපය 1970+ පමණකි. එජාපය සිටින්නේ එවන් පහළ අඩියක ය.

[6]. අලුත බිහි වූ පක්ෂයක් සහ ඊට නායකත්වය දුන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරයෙක් විසින් (එජාපෙට අනුවනම් නායකයට මන්ත්‍රීකමක්වත් නෑ , ජී එල් පීරිස් මහත්තයාගේ පක්ෂෙනේ), රටේ විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ පක්ෂයත් අගමැතිවරයාගේ පක්ෂයත් කිසිදු දේශපාලන හෝ ජනමාධ්‍ය බලයක් නැතිව පරාජය කරන ලද මැතිවරණයකි මේ. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන් ඒ ජයග්‍රහණය ලැබුවේ ජනතාව කෙරෙහි විශ්වාසය තබා ඔවුන්ගේ ඉල්ලීම් වලට හිස නැවූ බැවිනි (ප්‍රධානතම ඉල්ලීම: මෛත්‍රීපාල සමග කිසි සේත්ම මැතිවරණයේදී එකතු නොවන්න)

එජාපය විසිනුත් මේ රටේ ජනතාව ලබා දුන් අන්න ඒ ඓතිහාසික ජනතා තීන්දුවට හිස නමා තම වැරදි නිවැරදි කරගන්නවා වෙනුවට, එකිනෙකට විරුද්ධ පක්ෂ වල ඡන්ද එකතු කර ජනතාවට කොකා පෙන්වීම හරහා ජනතාව විසින් එජාපය තව තවත් ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කරන තත්ත්වයට ඇද දමා ඇත.

 

තවත් අයටත් බලන්නට SHARE කරන්න

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando

For many in the modern society, Valentine’s Day has turned out to be an occasion filled with an impressive series of events, especially for the teenage crowd. 14 of February becomes a day filled with fun, for all those who have received a Valentine’s Day card, an invitation for a party or dance, or even for those eligible bachelors and damsels, who are disappointed at the distinct lack of a marriage proposal.

American evangelist, Henry Ward Beecher, achieved worldwide fame on theology emphasizing on God’s love as being above all else. He was also well known as a social reformer, speaker, and an author, who had published 270 books on good reads, with 633 ratings. Dozens of his rare quotes that appear on the Internet include meaningful versions such as, “it’s easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is much better at the top”. When Henry Ward Beecher scribbled two sentences viz: “Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable,” he would never envisioned that his above mentioned quote would become world famous one day, and slot into a specific day on the 14 of February, to be characteristically named as the Valentine Day!

Day of Cupid

Over the centuries, mainly dedicated lovers celebrated Valentine Day. Currently, this day is regarded as the day of the Cupid, the child-like winged deity, the son of Venus, the Roman Goddess of love, and connected with the conjoint exchange of ‘love notes ‘in the form of greeting cards, red roses and the red coloured heart-shaped contour with Cupid’s figure, a single rose, candlelit dinners and dancing in star class hotels, and exchanging overpriced trinkets, as tokens of undying love.

In such a backdrop, it would be more problematic for someone who is not so obsessed with such a thing called ‘undying love, but love in true sense is the sensation that cannot be explained or examined under a microscope, even if one attempts to use one’s talents and the charm, by spending hours pondering over the philosophical nature of this magic human reaction, because it is an internal feeling in every individual’s experience; and there are many ways of showing its uniqueness.

History

Valentine Day has its own share of differences and opinions like in any other issue. Some believe that it has originated from St. Valentine, the Roman who martyred for refusing to give up Christianity and died on 14 February 269 AD. There are others who call it the day dedicated to ‘love lotteries’; still there are some who assert it as the day when St. Valentine left a farewell note to his girl friend, a daughter of a Jailer, by autographing the words ‘from your Valentine.’ It is believed that St. Valentine, serving as a priest at the temple during Emperor Claudius’s reign, was jailed for defying the Pope Gelasius, the third, and the last Bishop of Rome (492-496) in the Catholic Church.

Charles, Duke of Orleans, wrote the oldest poem on a Valentine greeting card to his wife, while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, after his capture at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, which is found in the British Library London as part of the manuscript collection. Several years later, King Henry V hired a writer named John Lydgate to compose a Valentine message to Catherine of Valois.

British began to celebrate the Valentine’s Day from around 17th Century. By the middle of the 18th Century, it became common for friends and lovers in all-social classes to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes. By the end of the century, and with the advancement of printing technology, printed cards replaced original handwritten letters, which once directed one’s feelings and emotions.

Mythical daydreams

Like any other popular themes as Birthdays, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, the Valentine Day too has become a mega commercial hysteria throughout the cities in the world, and over and one billion valentine cards change hands on a single day, making just the perfect excuse for lots of people to spend money on behalf of their love and loved ones. In the meanwhile the greeting cards make the stationery manufacturers, sellers and the postal service’s richer.

Human beings, whom they are, filled with emotions, enjoy an overdose of sycophancy from time to time, and indulge in mythical daydreams! One may try to be jolly on this special day being showered with romantic cards, bouquets of red roses, a single rose, boxes of chocolate, with writings on them such as “All because the lady loves…..”. Some become lavish and spend a fortune on eating out at star hotels, and getting drunk like fish, with ‘gal’, ‘pol’, wine, or whiskey. For a different kind of valentine, it could yet be another occasion to hit a dance floor and enjoy a bit of pelvic thrust in romantic dim lights calling it as what the cupid ordered!

But let’s face it. If one is forced to rely on a single day of the year to feel that ‘love is in the air’ and ‘happy ever after,’ you could be looking only at the horizon. Haven’t we all heard the idiom, ‘to love another, one has to love oneself’? In such a hypothesis, I would like to offer a little bit of love, in an unexpected direction this year, by sending a valentine card to my own address with a simple sentence,’ Be my Valentine’!

tilakfernando@gmail.com

Ceylon Today Feature on 10^th February 2018

මැතිවරණ පරාජයෙන් පසු ඇතිව තිබෙන අර්බුදය නිසා ඉදිරි කාලයේ ඉදිරියට ආණ්ඩුව පවත්වාගෙන යන්නේ කෙසේදැයි තීරණය කිරිමට කමිටුවක් පත් කිරීම ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා තීරණය කර ඇත.

ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෙම තීරණය ගෙන ඇත්තේ ඊයේ රාත‍්‍රියේ අගමැතිය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ හා එජාප කැබිනට් ඇමතිවරුන් අතර පැවති සාකච්චාවකදීය.

අගමැති රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ නායකත්යෙන් යුතු ආණ්ඩුව තව දුරටත් ඉදිරියට පවත්වාගෙන යාම සදහා එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂය තීරණය කර ඇත.

අවශ්‍ය නම් ශ‍්‍රීලනිප ඇමතිවරුන්ටද ඊට එක්විය හැකති බවද ඔවුන් තීරණය කර තිබේ.

මෙම තීරණයන් දැනුම් දීම සදහා ජනාධිපති මන්දිරයට ගිය ඔවුන් එහිදී පැවති සාකච්චාවේදී මේ බව දන්වා ඇත.

තමාට ජන බලයක් නොමැතිබව ලෝකය ඉදිරියේම පෙනීයාම නිසා ජනපති සිරිසේන ආරක්ෂාව පතා නැවතත් රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ කරා පැමිණීම   ඔහු ගන්නා දැඩි තීණ්දුව බව මේවන විට පැහැදිලිව තිබේ.

Punsara Amarasinghe PhD Candidate in International Law Higher School of Economics Moscow

For a good or bad Royal College in Colombo had held the helm in the country’s history since its inception. When  Robert Wilmort Horton took his paternal interest in Royal College or Colombo Academy  in 1836 one year after the establishment of the school by Rev. Marsh, Horton’s interest was to keep it as a British factory in Ceylon to produce a local clerical service for the service of the British Raj. However the development of the school provided the best influence to nourish a breed of elite Ceylonese to play better cards with British in the national movement.  For the past 183 years history of Royal has produced personalities in every walk of life and they are still vividly remembered by the school they studied as distinguished products. The uniqueness of the school has not been confined to a certain class as Royal has produced political leaders and ideologists from Marxism to Liberalism and Tamil nationalism to the Sinhalese nationalism. Nevertheless today School’s hall of fame and its glamour stand at bay with the outrageous acts culminated by premier Ranil and his notorious Royalists friends in the inner circle. I can recall in 2007 when Ranil stepped into Mustangs tent in Royal Thomian big match some of his loyal supports from Royal welcomed him as the future president of Sri Lanka though it has not become a reality thus far and it would not be as long as Sun rises from the East!

In the backdrop of trembling and hauling defeat to UNP and entire Yahapanlaya fraternity in local election, Ranil should understand how wretchedly he failed the aspirations of diehard UNP voters who were eagerly waiting to uphold a strong green blood rule and above all the bitter looming truth before him is how his so called Blue and Gold” Royal friends played a foul game for past three years. In toppling Mahinda Rajapakshe’s  rule which stood for the nation’s interest against all odds, UNP and all the anti-nationalists forces manipulated the public opinion by creating a term named Sahodara Samagama”.  Three years after the defeat of Mahinda in 2015 still Sahodara Samagama has left a practical legacy than what Ranil and his Royal frtatntiy have been doing since the day they took the power. Moreover popular myth on Ranil’s honesty and his cleanness in politics was shattered by bringing his Royalists friends into the circle of power. In examining the path how he began to bring Royalists into power the appointment of Arjun Mahendran as the Central Bank governor was the first detrimental blow on theYahapalanaya. After having criticized the Sri Lankan tax system and state owned enterprises this notorious Royalist was expected to perform a sudden wonder in the economy. Instead of galvanizing the economy he was busy with selling the government bonds to his Son in law which did to cost a 1.6 Billion loss to the country. Even after the revealing the despicable nature of Mahendran’s act, premier was not keen to stand for the truth. Instead of that he opted for the path of protecting his fellow Royalist. The statement given by Ranil Wickramaisnghe before Bond Commission may be the most obtuse statement made by any prime minister in Sri Lankan history.  In testifying before the commission Ranil stated that he had relied on the assurance of Governor Arjun Mahendran regarding the divestment of Arjun Aloysius’ ownership in Perpetual Treasuries and had insisted on the divestment prior to Mahendran taking as Governor.  Despite Arjun Mahendran has breached the trust and fooled Ranil, he  continued to keep Mahendran as a loyal supporter  and placed him as the head of his five year development plan. It seems to indicate that Ranil has lost his political instinct (If he had any!) in trusting his closest Royal College gang, because even after the bond scandal he shamelessly defended Ravi Karunayake albeit  all the evidence had set up against him. In the commission Ranil stated that his assumption on Ravi Karunanayake was clearly genuine as a senior Cabinet Minister and senior UNPer that he was telling the truth about the Penthouse allegation . In his testimony premier went on to say I asked him ( Karunnayake) about it and he said no. There was no reason to go further”.  This remark simply illustrates how seriously Ranil kept his trust upon his Royal College Gang even those people’s actions had ruined the interests of the state. It becomes evident with this imbecilic decisions made by premier that he has almost forgotten the most important line from his school song learn of books and learn of men and learn to play the game”! In fact the deeper meaning of those line learn to play the game refers to how one should be staunch in dealing with the life’s decisions, but Ranil’s own arrogance of power has led him to believe his Royal Gang to the last ditch.

After the Bond scandal the humbug of Ranil’s Royal gang was exposed to the whole country. Especially   when a Sri Lankan military officer tried to defend the pride of the country in London against a rally led by LTTE supporters, his action was critiqued by Mangala Samarweera as a threat to national harmony and this Royalist Foreign Minister has been irrational to ignore  how can national harmony be affected when a military officer acts accordingly to face a terrorist organization.

In truth Ranil and his Royal College fraternity did not understand the pulsation of the people and when people demanded more practical benefits Ranil was willing to give them WiFi! The recent overwhelming victory has clearly set the nails to the yahapalana” coffin and it is not an exaggeration to state that Ranil is spending the autumn of his political career, perhaps he can regarded as the weakest statesman came from the hallowed portals of Royal. The motto of Royal College Disce aut Discade or Learn or Depart is a quite popular one these days  as a result of another political joke, nevertheless the alternative motto proposed by Sir Henry Burton British Chief Justice in Ceylon in 1915 at Royal College prize giving Disce Aut Discede Manet Sors Tertia Caedia ( Learn or Depart or be Caned ) should be a worthy one to mention here.  After going through a constant serious of failures in his political career Ranil has learned nothing and did not depart either. However the massive victory of Pohotuwa” and rise of nationalist force has finally canned Ranil and his Blue and Gold” fraternity to hide their faces..!

Dr Sarath Obeysekera

Why do we need Harward Experts when we have Sri Jayawradane Pura ,Oxford and LSE educated locals ??

February 13, 2018, 12:00 pm

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I have never heard of ‘para tariffs’ on imported goods in any other country other than in Sri Lanka, Professor Robert Lawrence, faculty chair of the Practice of Trade Policy Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School said in Colombo recently.”I am not suggesting that Sri Lanka shouldn’t attempt to protect its infant-industries through tariff barriers when there is an economic rationale for trade protectionism. The core of this trade protectionism argument is that nascent industries often do not have the economies of scale that their older competitors from other countries may have. And so they need to be protected until they can attain similar economies of scale”, he explained.However, even when infant industry protection is well–intentioned, it is difficult for governments to know which industries they should protect and to what extent they should do so, because goods and services of such infant industries may never grow up to enter the global market. In many cases, a tax on imports is a tax on exports. Hence tariffs such as these (para tariffs) could hurt the same industries the protectionist measures intend to help”, he pointed out.

After China joined the WTO and opened its gates to imports, there was a correlation of acceleration in both imports and exports. India’s international trade figures also show this correlation of acceleration in its ratio of exports to imports. Even though they experience a trade deficit as a result, that’s a manageable one for them in the context of overall international trade performance”, he noted.

Professor Lawrence was speaking on the topic,” The Path to Prosperity: Protectionism or Free Trade?”, hosted by the Adocata Institute and held under the aegis of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies, Colombo.Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera had said during the presentation of Budget 2018 that ‘para tariffs’ on 1,200 imported items would be abolished to end protectionist policies brought in to strategically help boost exports.A para-tariff is an extra fee or tax imposed on imported goods in addition to the tariffs stated in the country’s tariff schedule.

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I was having a friendly discussion with my Neighbour who is a leading local entrepreneur  struggling to develop  herbal shampoos and other skin related products .He was emphasizing the need to protect certain local industries against cheap low quality imports from China and India under free trade agreements and ETCA etc. .

He was quite critical about the Harvard Educated Americans trying to teach local economists and politicians on how to run the country.

I am sure that four or five such Harvard experts and some CB officials who have been trained in Harvard is costing large amount of dollars earned by our poor Sri Lankans working in middles east trying to make their ends and provide income to their families .

I also noted that American Ambassador also quickly rushed to see the Prime Minister. To either advise him or to inquire the about the way forward in resolving the political dead lock

Why do we have to depend on people of this country where everything is failing, who cannot survive without manufacturing arms and selling to rogue leaders in Middle East?

We can be neutral and get advice, but we should fall into their trap

Dr Sarath Obeysekera

MEDIA RELEASE Professor G.L.Peiris Chairman Sri Lanka PodujanaPeramuna

Following the Sri Lanka PodujanaPeramuna’s resounding victory at the local government elections, a rumor began circulating in the social media that the BoduBalaSena had made facebook posts in support of the SLPP.Then articles appeared in the newspapers quoting a letter written to the press byMr. N.M.Ameen of the Muslim Council stating that SLPP cadres had allegedly harassed several Muslim individuals in Ugurassapitiya in Kandy and Veyangalla in Agalawatte for not supporting the SLPP. If any such incidents had occurred, they should be reported to the police and dealt with.

The public is well aware of the strategies that were orchestrated before the last presidential election to alienate the Muslim communityfrom our leadership. The book written by prominent JathikaHelaUrumaya activist Asoka Abeygunawardene titled ‘Yuga Peraliya’ the first copy of which was formally presented to President MaithripalaSirisenaon 23 March 2015 has explainedthe strategies adopted to send the Muslim community en masse onto the other side before the last presidential election. Audio clips of the main conspirators discussing these strategies over the phonewere subsequently circulated in the social media. We admit that our government was not decisive enough in dealing with this conspiracy.

Everyone will remember that as the yahapalana government rapidly declined in popularity in 2017, there was yet another spate of attacks on Muslim businesses and houses.Then a monk at thecentre of these incidents was granted bail three times in a single day andeverything was swept under the carpet. Even though the yahapalana government appointed Presidential Commissions to look into matters like the renting of space in the MahiyanganaPradeshiya Sabha shopping complex, they never appointed a Commission to look into the far more important issue of theAluthgama incident, because all the perpetrators are now in the yahapalana government.

The Muslim community has now realized the deception that has been practiced on them, and the results of the local government election clearly reflects that. It is therefore not surprising thatconspiratorial elements are once again at work. The public should be vigilant and not be misled a second time.  The government should immediately establish a Commission of Inquiry into the Aluthgama incident, the incidents that led up to it, the sudden flare upof extremist activity in 2017 and the Gintota incident. In the meantime, the full severity of the law should be brought to bear on such incidents in the future.

With the concurrence of the party leaders’ committee of the Joint Opposition,

Professor G.L.Peiris

Chairman

Sri Lanka PodujanaPeramuna

මහාචාර්ය ජී. එල්. පීරිස් සභාපති ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ

පලාත් පාලන ඡන්දයේදී පොදුජන පෙරමුණ විශිෂ්ඨ ලෙස ජය ගැනීමෙන් පැය 24 ක් ඇතුළත, බොදු බල සේනාව පොදුජන පෙරමුණට පක්‍ෂව ෆේස්බුක් මාධ්‍යය ව්‍යාපාරයක් ගෙනගිය බවට රාවයක් සමාජ ජාලා වල සංසරණය වීමට පටන් ගත්තේය. ඉන්පසු මුස්ලිම් කවුන්සිලයේ එන්.එම්.අමීන් මහතා මහනුවර උගුරැස්සපිටියේ හා අගලවත්තේ වේයන්ගල්ල ප්‍රදේශයේ පොදුජන පෙරමුණට සහයෝගය නොදැක්වූවා යැයි කියා මුස්ලිම් පුද්ගලයන් කිහිප දෙනෙකුට අප පක්‍ෂයේ ක්‍රියාකාරීන්  හිරිහැර කල බවට චෝදනා කරමින් ලියූ ලිපියක් මාධ්‍යයේ පල විය. එවැනි හිරිහැර කිරීම් සිදුව ඇත්නම් එය පොලීසියට වාර්තා කොට අවශ්‍ය පියවර ගත යුතුය.

පසුගිය ජනාධිපතිවරණයට පෙර, මුස්ලිම් ප්‍රජාව අපට එරෙහි කරවීමට යොදා ගන්නා ලද විවිධ උපක්‍රම ගැන මහජනතාව හොදින් දනී. ජාතික හෙල උරුමයේ ප්‍රබල ක්‍රියාකාරිකයකු වන අශෝක අබේගුණවර්ධන 2015 ජනවාරී 8 වනදා ආණ්ඩු වෙනස පිළිබඳව යුග පෙරළිය” නමින් පොතක් ලියා ඉන් පළමු පිටපත 2015 මාර්තු 23 වනදා මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයාට පිළිගන්වනු ලැබූ අතර, පසුගිය ජනාධිපතිවරණයට පෙර මුස්ලිම් ජනතාව සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම අනෙක් පැත්තට යැවීමටයොදන ලද උපක්‍රම එහි විස්තර කොට ඇත. මේ කුමන්ත්‍රණය පසුපස සිටි ප්‍රධාන චරිත මේ පිළිබඳව දුරකථනයෙන් සාකච්ඡා කරන හඞ පටද පසු කලක සමාජ ජාලා ඔස්සේ සංසරණය විය. මේ කුමන්ත්‍රණයටසුදුසු පරිදි මුහුණදීමේදී අපේ ආණ්ඩුවේ දුර්වලතා තිබුණු බව අපි පිළිගනිමු. 

2017 දී යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව ජනතාව අතර ජනප්‍රියත්වයෙන් පිරිහෙද්දී නැවත වතාවක් මුස්ලිම් ව්‍යාපාරික ස්ථාන හා නිවාස වලට ප්‍රහාර එල්ල විය. මේ සිද්දීන් වලට මුල් වූ බවට සැකයට පාත්‍රවී සිටි භික්‍ෂුවකට එක් දිනක් ඇතුළත තුන්වතාවක් ඇප දී සියල්ල යට ගසන ලදී. යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව මහියංගන ප්‍රදේශීය සභාවේ සාප්පු සංකීර්ණයක කඩ කාමර කුළියට දීමේදී ඇතිවූවා යැයි කියන අක්‍රමිකතා ගැන සොයා බැලීමට ජනාධිපති කොමිසමක් පත්කර තිබුණද ඊට වඩා බෙහෙවින්ම වැදගත් වූ අලුත්ගම සිද්ධිය පිළිබඳව සොයා බැලීමට කොමිසමක් පත් නොකලේ, එයට වගකිවයුතු සියලු දෙනාම අද සිටින්නේ යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවේ නිසාය.

පසුගිය පලාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයේ ප්‍රතිපල වලින් පෙනී යන කාරණයක් වන්නේ මුස්ලිම් ප්‍රජාව අද වනවිට ඔවුන්ව මුලා කරනු ලැබූ ආකාරය ගැන අවබෝධයෙන් සිටින බවයි. එම නිසා පැරණි කුමන්ත්‍රණ නැවතත් ක්‍රියාත්මක වෙමින් පැවතීම ගැන අපි පුදුම නොවෙමු. ආණ්ඩුව විසින් වහාම අලුත්ගම සිද්ධිය ගැනත්, එයට පෙර වූ සිදුවීම් ගැනත්, 2017 ඇති වූ විවිධ සිද්ධීන් ගැනත්, ගිංතොට කලබලය ගැනත් සොයා බැලීමට විමර්ශණ කොමිසමක් පත්කල යුතුය. ඒ අතරතුර, මෙවන් සිද්ධීන් වලට එරෙහිව මින් ඉදිරියට නීතියේ සම්පූර්ණ බලය යෙදවිය යුතුය.

ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂයේ පක්‍ෂ නායකයින්ගේ කමිටුව වෙනුවෙන්,

මහාචාර්ය ජී. එල්. පීරිස්

සභාපති

ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ

Sudath Gunasekara

12.2.2018.

Now that over 72 % of the people who voted at this election have clearly rejected the President as well as the PM (Even in their own electoral bases, Polonnaruwa and Colombo) and have given a resounding victory for Mahinda Rajapaksa as the man who represent their aspirations. More over all their Cabinet Ministers and the Secretaries of the JO Amarasiri and SLFP Disssanayaka also have lost their seats. Even Chandrika the main architect of the Jan 8^th conspiracy has created history by losing Attanagalla the birth place and Home of the SLFP and paid heavily for betraying the SLFP in 2015. In the face of this humiliating defeat not only the President and PM should go home but all those who have lost their seats also should follow suit.

Therefore both the President and the PM have no moral, ethical or legal right to remain in power even for one day as they have proved beyond all doubts that they have miserably failed to lead the nation. It is reported that Chnadrika has already left for the chateau in France or the mansion in UK in shame. As such it is the turn for the other two the President and the President to immediately step down now if they have an iota of self-respect or shame, making room for a general election for the people of this country to elect a government of their own without engaging in any more conspiracies or attempting to carry on illegally till end of 2020 as Ranil has already told the President yesterday at a meeting he had with him in the company of the Speaker at Paget Place.

Although it is true that this not a Parliamentary election and as such its results cannot change the Government due to Constitutional barriers, both the President and the prime Minister should look at the overall elections results with open eyes and come back to normal senses before they talk and interpret the results in their favour, taking shelter under the Constitution. The fact remains that over 72 % of those polled have rejected them and already put them in to the political dustbin of history. Therefore before they think of other manipulations which will only put them to the gloving fire from the frying pan they should step down. They should admit that the so called mandate they are supposed to have got by making all conspiracies and blackmailing and threatening the people not to vote Rajapaksa and collecting all anti-Sinhala Buddhist votes in 2015 does not now exist on earth. It was all lost even within three months after January 8^th, as their cornucopia of false promises and the Aladdin’s wonder lamp was crashed at the end of the promised 100 days. Their political gambling for three years I would only compare to the famous CB robbery for which both of them are directly responsible. The people have been patiently waiting all this time to throw them out for all the blunders they repeated from Jan 8th 2018.

The call I am making is not only my personal command but it is also the mass protest and a clear  ”Go Home” clarion call of an absolute majority of the country (other than the few communal Tamil politicians of the North and East who wants the new Constitution and separate Tamil Home land – the EELAM) against the 3 years misgovernment and No Governance at all’  and the Augean mess you have created under the guise of much hyped ‘Good governance’ label. Their message is very clear they have given a resounding message that ‘enough is enough.’ They don’t want you to ruin this country any more as what you have done is more than enough and unlike you they love their motherland more than their lives.

Therefore the people of this country demand that you people leave the stage ASAP accepting the public verdict without resorting to any more tinkering to an already discarded, wrecked and sinking Yahapalanaya ship whose deck as well as the hull are completely gone. The PM is reported to have said that the President and the PM are due to meet to work out a new strategy and renew the illegal marriage registered for political convenience, to go on until 2020. It is already revealed that the PM has met the President on the 11th at Paget place in the company of the Speaker and made this life saving proposal which has been already rejected by the PMS as untrue.

Mr Prime Minister at least now you must understand that you have miserably failed in all your duties by the nation for the past 20 odd years even though you have been made the PM once by accident in 2001 and next in 2015 Jan by conspiracy and dirty and illegal design by the very man, the President, who was hired by you, with the help of Chandrika and your International conspirators in the West and the hungry India.

If both of you try any more dirty tricks as you have been doing for the past three years and even shamelessly doing now, by listening to crafty and self-centered purohitas like Rajitha Senarantna (another man rejected by the people on Feb 10 th) who had said ‘that the outcome of the polls has further strengthened the ‘January 08’ mandate and the percentage of the parties contesting against the Rajapaksa group was higher than the percentage of the SLPPJ and “the anti-Rajapaksa vote still remains the same; there is no need to change the President and the Prime Minister due to the result; we must expedite our work and deliver results,” to carry on this hybrid, ‘Meeharaka saha Ela haraka’ type government for another two years to complete the treachery, please don’t forget that the day the masses of this country who have voted you out of power on the 10^th of Feb will round up your fortified ‘Bastilles’ and throw you out physically is not that far. I am asking you to honourably step down before that unpleasant episode takes place.

In my opinion, unlike the 2015 elections results, that were achieved by externally manipulated and an internally hatched conspiracies by a group of traitors led by the three of you (Chandrika and Ranil and Sirisena trio who have now found their permanent places in the dustbin of history) using Sirisena as a cat’s paw, this election was, by and large, free from such external interventions thanks god and the result of this election is a true reflection of the burning issues and aspirations and the long lasting curses of the sons of the soil who love their mother land. Any attempt by Ranil or Sirisena to form a UNP government with SLFP or JO MPP presently with Sirisena and TNA as suggested and agreed upon by Ranil and Sirisena will end up in total disaster. I don’t think the people of this country will tolerate such nonsense any more in the wake of the anti- government landslide victory they have delivered on the 10^th of February.

Therefore I urge that you end the inauspicious and unholy political marriage registered in 2015 and also immediately step down and make room for a General election by dissolving the Parliament so that people of this country can elect a Government that will make this country a free, independent, peaceful and prosperous country once again and protect their 2600 year old nation and its proud heritage.

A word for the Prime Minister.

Mr Prime Minister apart from the fact you have messed up the whole country you have also completely ruined the UNP. It is no longer the UNP of Senanayakas anymore.  This becomes more than evident when we see that 42 you UNP Members have already declared that you should leave the party leadership. Even if they don’t do so 72% of voters have asked you to go. People of this country need to have two strong Political parties, as long as the party system exists, to have an alternative party to run the country. Now that you have miserably failed as the UNP leader for the past 20 odd years with 29 defeats you must realize that your days are gone. Therefore , without trying any more gimmicks, please step down as the leader making room for some young blood to come in to give a new lease of life to UNP, because, the country needs it, to provide against a political rainy day.   The longer you wait and the more you conspire to invent unholy political alliances or any other treachery using your inherent crafty and dirty Machiavellian tactics, the deeper you sink and deeper you fall in to the abyss of political infinity. Therefore listen to this good counseling by a citizen. Accept the people’s verdict and go home for heaven’s sake.

 A word for the President

Mr President, at least now you must realize that you have betrayed and ruined the SLFP, the only patriotic political Party in this country, on the very day you decided to leave it on 21^st Nov 2014 on the advice of Chandrika (who did it to avenge MR) and decided to come forward as the Common candidate under the UNP, the political party, SWRD the founder and Father of SLFP left in 1951 rejecting it as a pro-Western capitalist political party and who fathered the dawn of a new era in politics in this country with a new socialist vision for this nation. So don’t you think that you have buried those noble policies the day you left to join the UNP. The rest that followed up to 10^th of Feb is now a part of history I do not want to describe here as everyone in this country knows about it.

Now that you have paid dearly for all your blunders and loose talk on 10^th Feb when people throughout the country defeated you with 4.44 % of the votes polled and even in your own home electorate where you had been the MP nearly for the past 30 years. Is it not sufficient proof of what you have done and not done.

Had you distanced from Chandrika who betrayed not only the SLFP but also her own Mother and Father who reversed what he parents did for this country and allowed Mahinda Rajapaksa to form a Government in 2015 forgetting that your name is Maitripala and by not writing a vituperative long letters and openly declaring that you will not appoint MR as Prime Minister even if he wins the elections and remained a non-party President and conducted your role under decent advice you would never have fallen in to this political abyss and humiliation. Now let the bygones be bygones. The only thing you can do now is to prevent further sinking.

At least now you can do the correct thing by the country. First you must humbly admit that you have been defeated by the majority in this country. Respect public opinion and dissolve the Parliament and make room for a General Election so that people could elect a Government they want. Then whoever comes to power you will remain as the president of the country until you period expires.

Finally an open appeal to the leading Buddhist clergy

Rev. Sirs the country, the nation and the Sasana have come to crossroads.  The country is in total anarchy. Absolute chaos and confusion reign all over the country and the situation in days to come will be much worse. And now the country needs your esteemed and traditional intervention.  AS you know this country did not have a government at all in this country for the past three years. Now in the wake of local Government elections things have become even worse. The two heads of the two headed donkey that was our Government for the past three years are now separated. President Sirisena living in his own dream world, in spite of all his day dreams and ahasmaliga have disastrously shattered to ground on Feb 10^th, But he does not appear to have got out of his clumsiness and madness. Definitely now he can’t form a SLFP Government without a single SLFP MP as he expected and declared on the election platform.  But he is also trying to form a new Government. We will see tomorrow what his plans are going to be as he is having a meeting of his golayas. Will it end up as the proverbial Mahadenamuttas story, only god will know.

On the other hand going by the way he behaved and spoke at election meetings no can he now properly head or direct a Government headed by Ranil Wickramasinha, even if Ranil show a majority in Parliament out of his magic box on Thursday as he has said.

More over even though this election is not a Parliamentary election, both the President and PM have no mandate to remain in power as the whole country has rejected them in one voice at the election. It is an undisputable fact that no one can deny though Rajitha Senaratna has already told the Reuter that the Government has not lost instead the 2015 mandate has got strengthen according to him.

I am not concerned about Ranil, Sirisena or any other person as individuals. But I am highly concerned and deeply worried about my country and the plight of its people and the Sasana and the 2500 year old   Sinhala Buddhist heritage. As I have no faith in any politician mentioned above I am addressing this open appeal to you Mahasangha as the guardians of the country, nation and the Sasana, to intervene immediately as you have done over the past 2500 years and request you to rescue this country from these unpatriotic, irresponsible, self-seeking, and power hungry politicians.

I suggest that all Leading Mahasangha assemble in Mahanuara either at Asgiriya or Malwatta  or the Temple of the Tooth and decide on an action plan to rescue the country before these politicians completely destroy it, as your predecessors had always done

Thereafter the noble Mahasangha should summon the President and the Prime minister before them and command them to dissolve the Parliament immediately to pave way for a general election at a meeting presided over by the Four Mahanayaka Theras of the Three Nikayas and attended by the Nayaka Theras of the other Sects like Kalyani, Ruhununu and all other prominent monks in the Island as decided by the Supreme Committee of Mahasangha set up for the purpose.

This in my opinion is the only way the country could be rescued out of the present impasse in to which the country has been dragged in by the present day politicians.