Dr Sudath Gunasekara
30.Jan 2017.
(Please note that this is a revised version of the first article I wrote to Lankaweb on 16.Jan 2017 under ‘Twelve Prerequisites for Good governance’ etc. I decided to write this piece in view of valuable comments made by my readers of the first. I thank them for their valuable comments, new ideas offered and prompting me to improve my horizons. I also REQUEST YOU TOO, T0 READ THEIR COMMENTS under the original article)
What has to be done immediately to stop the division of the motherland and save, that was the home of the Sinhala Buddhist nation for 2500 years for posterity?
I am fully aware that this is a very big challenge and a very difficult puzzle too to solve. But it has to be sorted out as soon as possible at any cost in the name of posterity.
Therefore I put down the following recipe in good faith, with malice towards none, but with love and affection to our heritage as a patriotic Sinhala Buddhist who loves his country,its people and the heritage more than anything else. I give it in 5 Steps.
Step1. What has to be done immediately to get out this Augean mess in Governance
Step 11. What the Interim Government must do.
Step 111 The need for a national movement to prepare a National Policy Framework
Step1V. What the new Government after the election must do.
Step v. Guidelines for the National policy framework under the new Constitution
Step 1
What has to be done immediately to get out of this Augean mess
1 First and foremost, this externally manipulated ( the so-called International Community led by US, UK and Norway, India and LTTE agents called the Tamil Diaspora- remnants of LTTE, all sworn enemies of the Sinhala Buddhists Sri Lanka), unconstitutional, treacherous and UNPatriotic rogue elephants Government yielding to Western dictates and catering to foreign interests must be sent home as soon as possible before it completely destroy this country and the Sinhala nation, and instead the people of this country must immediately replace it with a Strong central Government, headed by a patriotic Sinhala Buddhist leader as the Executive President, elected directly by all the people in the country as the incumbent President has miserably failed to protect the Sinhala Buddhist identity and heritage of this Island nation and allowed and empowered the Tamil politicians and Muslims like Richard Badurdeen (Wilpattu destruction) and Rauf Hakeem and Faizer Mustapa and undesirable anti national Sinhala elements to destroy this country and its 2500 year old Sinhala Buddhist heritage
Firstly, by openly declaring in public that he is obliged and duty bound to serve the interests of the Tamils and Muslims as 90 % of them has voted him at the last Presidential election, completely ignoring and betraying nearly 5 lahks of Sinhala (UNP, JVP, new votes and elements those within SLFP disgusted or angry with M R ) voters who have voted him by keeping mum and blind against all anti Sinhala and anti Buddhist activities done by the minority political leaders.
Secondly by allowing an utterly unsuitable person Rnil as the Prime minister, an avowed kalu Suddha, agent of the west and the Catholic church, together with his happy and gay bunch of ‘Asinhala’ Ministers like Mangala Samaraweera, Ravi Karunanayaka, Rajita, Kiriella (betrayer of the Kandyans) and rugby player Malik, absolutely unsuitable to hold such responsible public positions in this land of Sinhala Buddhists country and messy Chandrika and NGOO and others who are all known as sworn and proven enemies of the Sinhala nation, to ruin this country, the nation and it priceless Buddhist heritage.
But since there is a Constitutional problem to dissolve the Parliament to go for fresh elections and the ramifications in changing the President as well, the only sort cut to get over this impasse for the time being is for the President to ask the PM to resign, while keeping his position also safe. If Ranil refuses, most probably he would, to resign honorably in spite of the humiliating political situation before the volley of political onslaughts the general public and the President himself has already fired at him and the Finance Minister and the major disagreements with Ranils pet constitution making, already conveyed to the ABC through his trusted SLFP Cabinet Ministers and the CB bond scam, the President could sack him and should appoint a new Cabinet headed by a new Prime Minister in order to clear his name and save the Presidency. With the latest developments seen at the weekend meeting of the SLFP CEC, their position expressed at the Sri Lanka Buddhist council against Ranils proposed Constitution, the open tug of war going on between the UNP and SLFP group within the government, presidents decision to revert the selling price of Lottery tickets to Rs 20/=, suspension of the coal tender and the Homagama Tyre Project, and above Ranil’sall well known involvement in the Central Bank Bond scam and the ever rising public criticisms of his government, I don’t think Ranil has any other alternative than honorably submitting his resignation papers before he is sacked and humili Ambekkarated. The President also has fully understood now the predicament he is facing as the man who made Yahapalanaya his main slogan. Why he decided to send his lapdog Chief Ministers to plead MR’S support at the forthcoming local government elections without which the Sirisena SLFP factor will get completely wiped out.
If the President does not take any action against this illegally appointed PM the people of this country led by Mahasangha (The guardians of the country and the nation) should in one voice compel the incumbent President to ask Ranil to resign and make immediate arrangements for an interim government to be formed under a new PM, who can protect this country against both internal and external threats until new elections are held.
Here the President has no choice but to submit to public opinion and appoint the person who commands the majority in the House, as the Prime Minister. He cannot take cover under the evasive constitutional provision ‘in his opinion’ and appoint any one he wants as the PM, like what he did last time. That is unconstitutional and illegal. I am sure if he tries to do that this time also, people will revolt. Anyone can even go to courts and get it annulled if he resorts to such gimmick even though the JO has failed to do it last time. Because the ‘sovereignty is in the people and is inalienable’ and not with the President and the Speaker as he thinks and what he said last week that no one could be the PM without his consent and that of the Speaker. It is not his consent that matters in a democracy but the consent of the people at last. Because sovereignty lies with hem The President has only to carry out that constitutional obligation and the Speaker has only to announce it.
The President should appoint an interim Government
The interim Government could last till the next general election is held. Since this interim government is not formed after an election where an election manifesto is not involved, it can formulate its own interim policy framework to stabilize the country and bring back normalcy looking forward at the next election. Looking at the present jumbo Cabinet (the biggest in the world for a small country like ours), the names of the Ministries and the confusion and disorder it displays, with jocular and funny names of some Ministries, one cannot understand whether it is a Cabinet or an asylum.
The new cabinet should be limited to a council of 15 Ministers only scientifically named and functionally arranged. This should provide the new Government to prove its honesty, integrity, commitment and sincerity to service to people as well. None of the present Ministers should be included in the new Cabinet. The President and the new PM has to ensure that they select suitable persons who can command the respect of the public and abstain from appointing rogues, thug, bar owners, crooks and controversial persons as Ministers for mere political expediency. If they cannot find 15 such people from among those who are in Parliament, then they should get that number by getting suitable and competent new people from outside appointed through the national list easily by sacking those defeated candidates who are in Parliament at present. The Government could use this opportunity to show the country the type of Ministers it is going to appoint in the future. (national list must be abolished in the new Constitution)
Step11. What the Interim Government must do.
1 Immediately stop all activities relating to the ongoing new Constitution making and disband all subcommittees and their reports
2 Hold local government elections as soon as possible
3Then abolish the Provincial Council system to put an end the divisive, wasteful, disastrous and baneful Provincial Councils which have completely destabilized district administration and proliferated political and administrative institutions providing sanctuaries for political rejects and breading grounds for separatist elements and disabled political dropouts and thugs eating in to the national coffers imposed on us by India to ruin this country together with the JR-Rajiv Accord of 1987 & then abolish the 9 Provinces carved out by the British, first, to divide and create dissention among the natives as a part of their colonial strategy to make it easy for them to rule and exploit the colony and second to ruin this country and its culture and the ‘Sinahla Buddhist’ nation. That will also put an end to the cry for devolution and federalism mania by the separatist elements as well and once again bring back sanity and permanent peace to this country.
4 Assign an MP for every electorate as we had under the old system to bring back meaning to representative democracy once again in this country and the people to have people’s representatives in place of the present system of their being representatives of the Party Leader only responsible and answerable to the Leader of the Party at whose will their survival depends
5 Next in order to achieve the expected targets and bring back normalcy in the country’s Administration (completely in disarray now) re-classify and streamline the Ministries, and activate Departments and District administration, including the Divisions as well as the Village level, the nerve centres of efficient and good governance in this country by appointing the most suitable, senior and competent Janahitawadi public servants with proven ability who could deliver the goods like what they did in 1970s under Dudly Senanayaka Government so that we will have a country run by a group of non-political, independent, professional and patriotic public servants under the direction, control and supervision of the central Government, without leaving everything in the hands of uneducated, dishonest, self centred and corrupt politicians, and allowing them the monopoly of ruining this country as they have done for the past 68 years since 1948. The District Administration must be empowered with suitable changes and once again made the linchpin of peripheral governance with a District Secretary responsible to the center playing the main role.
Finally completely reorganize and revamp the village level by reducing the number of Gramaseva Units to about 5000 as it was there before 1990s (There were only 4000 GS Divisions then which Premadasa increased to 14,000 and also appointed all waga niladharis as Gramasevakas, thereby making it an utter mess by destroying both the village administration and food production in this country.
Grama Sweva Centers from where all village level officers of different departments should be set up at the Grama Seva Division levels.Completely revamp Grama Sevaya with wide changes in education qualifications, recruitment procedure, salary structure, responsibilities and status etc as the Grama Seva Office should be converted to be the most important unit of governance and development at the village level in this country in future. Grama Seva Niladhari should be the head of that office. This is the type of innovative Administrative reforms our governments should think of instead of wasting billions on imported systems like the Provincial Councils packed with rogue politicians.
Make residence within the Districts and Divisions compulsory for all the District Secretaries, Divisional Secretaries and Grama Sevaka Divisions (to be administered by Grama Seva offices and Janasabhas). Services at each level should be made available at one central office or at least one central place as far as possible for better and efficient delivery of services. I also suggest that the former need for all public servants to reside within a 3 mile radius from the work place be readopted for all public servants so that they will be in offices in time in the morning and do not leave offices early either.
This will, I believe mark a turning point, in the history of this country’s public administration and good governance towards a stable, prosperous, peaceful and independent State.
6.Proscribe all communal political parties named after ethnicity, language or religion like TNA, ITAK, TC and SLMS immediately. Only national parties that have a national coverage like SLFP. JVP should be allowed to function and engage in politics and contest elections thereafter. Even the UNP (an invention and imposition by the British in1947) should be banned as a political party unsuitable for this country as it has accepted that there are more than one nation in this country, a peculiar and disastrous political concept no other country in the world has.
7 Also ban communal segregation and design all future settlements as mixed ethnic settlements with special emphasis on the hill country plantations to avoid the Malayanadu dream of Tamil politicians.
8 Reform the present electoral system and reintroduce the earlier electorate system and abolish the District MP that has made representative democracy a big joke so that each electorate will have its own representative. Until a complete reorganization is done, assign the present MPP to each electorate within the District
9 Immediately take action to stop religious vandalism such as the destruction of all Sinhala Buddhist historical places, cutting down Bo trees etc in the North and East and restore what had been already vandalized and take action against those responsible. (The story of 7 Buddha statues recovered from the deep sea near Konesvara in Trincommallee is a glaring point in rthis type of communal vandalism)
10 Resettle all displaced Sinhala and Muslim people in the North and East during the LTTE terror period immediately at least now.
11 Take immediate action against Richard Badurdeen and restore Wilpattu national park
12Immediately restore the Kandyan Peasantry Development Authority abolished in 2014 and take immediate steps to rehabilitateKAndyan Peasants in terms of the KPC Commission Report of 1951 by restoring all their lost rights including land and privileges and
13 Institute legal actions against the British Government for the vandalism they have committed against the Kandyan peasants and claim compensation for all loses have undergone.
14 Immediately scrap the Ministry of Upcountry Tamil Villages and Infrastructure Development ad stop alienation of estate land now being carried out by the present Government under the direction of traitors like Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasingha and Minister Luxman Kiriella as an election bait and bribe.
15 Instead immediately set up a Powerful Ministry under the President or the Prime Minister called the Kandyan Peasantry Rehabilitation and Kandyan Areas Development Ministry
16 Scrap all political citizenships given to Indian Estate Tamils and restart awarding Citizenship to them only under the Nehru-Kotalawala Agreement of 1954 and all those who are either disqualified or refuse to accede to that should be repatriated to India or Britain as they were the people who brought these people to Sri Lanka and they were British citizen at the time of Independence in 1948.
17 Commence a mixed settlement programme for those who agree to that formula and all landless Kandyan peasants on marginal and uneconomic tea estates below 5000 ft MS taking in to consideration of the fact that Tea estates will get naturally reverted to forest I near future as the author of Paradise on the hills hascorrectly predicted.
18 Declare all lands above 5000 ft as strictly reserved forests and forbidden watersheds (Thahanchi kele as they were known in the days of the Sinhala Kings) to arrest land degradation in the central watersheds to improve the river flow to increase irrigation and hydro electricity potential of the Island.
19 Take strict legal actions against all who violate the 6th Amendment
20 Ban all communal and racial propaganda
21 Make prior approval of Parliament compulsory for all Ministry advisers, top Govt posts like the Governor CB, Ministry Secretaries, Diplomatic appointments etc so that we can avoid appointing unsuitable persons with controversial records like Arjun Mahendrana and R Paskaralingam to such high positions
22 Immediately withdraw the decision to pay Rs 2500 per sitting for MPP and the payment of RS 100 000 pm as rent for an office and ask them to operate from their homes in their electorates Ask those who refuse to abide b it to go home as they are no longer suitable to represent their voters in Parliament
23 Stop the leasing of 58 vehicles to be given to MPs by Ranil Wockramasinha
24 Stop appointing Chairmen for non existing Pradesiya Sanvardhana Sabhas and stop setting up of such additional and overlapping political institutions as we already have a plethora of such useless institutions like the Provincial Councils that have become a big burden to the govt coffers for no service done to the country.
25 Also remove all adheekshana MP and withdraw lavish facilities given to all politicians forthwith
26 Remove all political advisers appointed to Ministries
27 Recall all political appointees for diplomatic positions and replace them with career public servants
28 Stop all extravagant tamashas and politically motivated function like awarding certificates, and appointments etc All govt appointment could be sent by post with very little cost
29 Ban inviting more than one or the most two politicians or Government officials for any function and stop lining them up on the stage like film stars and getting all of them to show off when one can do the job and thus save enormous waste on transport, travelling, subsistence, fuel and ware and rare, overtime and wastage of time otherwise could have been used for public service
30 Scrap the Upcountry Tamil village and Infra structure Development Ministry immediately dissolve the 9 Provincial councils before next April and the UNDP funded special Authority to be set up for the same purpose immediately.
31 Restore all crown lands back to reserved forest encroached by Minister Badurdeen in Wilpattu and Muslim encroachers in the eastern Province and sack the Minister and take legal action against him for violating Fauna and Flora Acts and connected other offences committed by him
32 Restore all Buddhist historical places vandalized by Tigers and Muslims in the North and East
33 Remove Arjun Mahendran and Paskaralingam as Advisors to PM and Take legal action per Cope Report against Mahendran and also Ranil
37 Also take action against Navy Commander for assaulting a Rivira Media man
38 Abolish the Pension scheme given to politicians under Act NO 1 0f 1987 and thereafter.
39 Stop issuing duty free vehicle permits to all politicians and selected state officers forthwith Give them loans by vehicles as it was done in the past so that wt he govt can cut down enormous public expenditure on drivers ,maintenance, salaries , repairs, subsistence and overtime etc.
40 Stop giving allocations to MPP and Ministers and channel all Government expenditure through Ministries, Departments and Public Officials who should be made solely responsible and accountable to the Public Accounts Committee for their proper disbursement
41 Replace all political Governors of PCC and replace them with retired Professional Public servants until the PCC are abolished
42 After abolishing the Provinces and Provincial Councils restore and re strengthen and completely reorganize the District Administration
43 Restore capital punishment immediately, to all those found guilty of crimes prescribed by law an all Drug offences, rape, Child abuse and theft and misuse of State property and those who vandalize ancient Buddhist sites in the North and Eastern Provinces.
44 All politicians starting from President downward should reduce attending public functions and various extravagant tamasas and should devote their time more for serious thinking, planning and expeditious action on public welfare without displaying their vanity and pride
45 Stop blaming the last government and at least now get down to positive action
46 Ban import and telecasting of all Indian soap opera programs that destroy our culture
48 Close down India Consulates in Kandy, Hambantota and Jaffna and send back the Indian Oil Co and bring its functions under CPC to save our assets draining to India.
49 Scrap the IOC and vest it in the CPC also stop the Trinco Oil tanks deal with India
50 Relieve the Judiciary and the Public Service from political interference and make them
fully independent so that the public will get an efficient and impartial service
Step 111
The need for a national movement to prepare a National Policy Framework
1 Meanwhile we must immediately form a national movement headed by a National Council of all patriotic forces of this country like the historic Eksath Bhikshu Peramuna of 1956 led by eminent and respected Bhikkus and supported by few outstanding national level intellectuals drawn from different fields like Statecraft, Law. Civil service, Finance, Banking, Economics, History, Culture, Business, Engineering, Agriculture, Industry and Fishing etc to prepare a detailed national policy framework to be submitted to the political parties at the next election.
At the same time this movement must get all Sinhala people to renounce their blind party alliances and political colour (such as Green, Blue and Red attachments forthwith and get together under one national flag-that is the Lion flag the British lowered on 2nd March 1815 as one Nation to save our country and the nation with a view to evolve a system of government without political parties in future to unite the whole nation under one Government to restore political stability and protect the country from the minorities and from all foreign threats including India and the West at work.
The Bhikkus must take the leadership in this movement. They all should give up their politically Green, Blue and red robes and be armed with the Yellow robe as they have done throughout history whenever the nation was in danger. This should not be construed as narrow Sinhala Jativadaya. It is only an attempt to assert the lost rights and privileges of the Sinhala Nation, the real Bhoomiputras of this Land, over the years after 1815 and to restore the heritage of a Great Nation they have lost as all Governments since 1948 have miserably failed and criminally faulted to do it.
In reality the people involved in agitations for Independence should have planned for it years before and should have been ready with the Constitution of the new Republic by 1948 without waiting to meekly submit to a Constitution prepared by the Colonial masters to perpetuate their control for their own benefit. This is what neighbor India did in 1935 when it appointed a Committee under the chairmanship of Ambedcar to prepare the Independent Republican Constitution of India. They made India an Independent Republic immediately after Independence At least our people should have learned a lesson from it. Instead they embraced the Jenning constitutions even without restoring the name of the country SINHALE which was there in 1815. Since the word Ceylon in English was the direct translation of the Sinhale which they have used throughout the Kandyan convention I cannot understand as to why they accepted the word Lanka which was changed as Sri Lanka in 1972, though it too had been in use before. It was a name coined by India to denote that it is the country situated at the center of the world or beautiful land. But even ancient Indians have called us Sinhalas when they said ‘tat depa vasin Sihalam. Was this acceptance their ignorance or a joint conspiracy?
The foregoing process of preparing the comprehensive report should begin immediately as it has to be presented to the political parties before the election
The National policy framework so prepared should be offered to party leaders at a public meeting and the party who accepts to implement it should swear before the Mahanaayaka Theras of the three Nikayas in front of the Sri Dalada Wahanse as it was the tradition followed in the ancient days
And the group who accept it must be supported at the Election
Step 1V
What the new Government after the General election should do
1 Following the General election first enact a new and Constitution as promised within six months
2 The new Constitution must be based on the history, traditions, religion customs and manners of the Bhumiputras of this country. This should be done by local experts in Law, Administration, History, Politics and traditions etc and not by imported conspirators according to the dictates of Western nations and India.
3 Declare this Country once again as A Sinhala Buddhist Republic (as it had been the unbroken tradition of this country from its inception for the past 2500 years (that no other country in the world can claim). Also declare it as a Unitary State that will last as long as the sun and Moon will exist. The Republic of Sinhale will have only 25 Districts as administrative regions subdivided in to Divisions, Korales and Village Councils areas with maximum decentralization of Administrative power.
4 Begin to implement the election manifesto
5 All minority groups should accept this position as non-negotiable and inalienable constitutional provisions. All of them will have to learn the language of the land within 10 years and integrate with the native Sinhala nation while enjoying the freedom to practice their own religion and culture. Those who cannot do so must go back to countries of their love and choice or to countries from where they were brought by Suddhas or migrated) All minorities have to fall in line with this reality. There is no other alternative either for reconciliation or co-existence with the Sinhalese. None of them should dream to be independent nations in someone else’s country as they do now.
6 Restore independence in Judiciary and Administration
7 Declare all lands above 5000 ft mean sea level as strictly protected national watersheds that should never be touched for development or settlements and confine all settlements to land below that elevation
V Guidelines for the National policy framework under the new Constitution
This country should have only one government for the whole Island and its territorial waters as the Republic (A unitary State In modern terms) of Sinhale (one Eksesath Rajya or Janarajaya) as it had been one Kingdom for the past 2500 years. It should be based on the Dharmasokian concept of the State and it should be guided by Dasaraja Dharma and Satara Sangraka vastu with the ultimate objective of achieving the goal of the ‘Righteous Rajya” for the good of the many and the happiness of the many inclusive of all Countrymen or citizens (as they are popularly called now) belonging to all ethnic groups.
The fundamental features that should be embodied in the Constitution of the Republic of Sinhale
1 Objective: To convert our Motherland once again to an Independent Sovereign, prosperous and righteous State, guaranteeing territorial integrity, sovereignty and unitary status of the country.
2 Name : The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sinhale (Kingdom before 1815) Actually it continued to be called Sinhale up to 1972 as it was known as Ceylon in English till then that was only the anglicized version of Sinhale.
3.Nationality: Sinhala
4 State Language Sinhala
5 State Religion Buddhism
6 Law of the land: Sinhala Law. Thesavalamei and Muslim Law operating at preset in respect of Tamils and Muslims shall be abolished under this as there were never such laws prior to 1815
(As it had been for 2500 years from 543 BC up to 1815 AD. In fact there is nothing to declare so, as it had been the historical legacy of this nation)
.7 State administration. The country will be run by a people friendly, Homemade Administrative system replacing the present alien, destructive and divisive political Party system.
8 Machinery of Governance: An elected Executive President by the people as the Head of the Government, A Jatika Rajya Sabha with 15 Ministers, Administered under 25 Districts, Divisions and Villages administered by Janasabhas as given under step 11 : item 3 above
9 There can never be any reconciliation in this Land of the Sinhalese outside these non-negotiable and inalienable conditions. No political party or leader should aspire or dream to be the Head of this country as this was the historical fact that was strictly adhered to by all the Kings in this country up to 1815 march 2. Even the British accepted this position when they signed the Kandyan Convention, though they violated it later.
10 Under the New Constitution
There shall be a ‘Jatika Rajya Mantarana Sabbhava’ of not more than 150 qualified statesmen in all, elected on an electoral basis, (so that every electorate will have their representative, a people’s representative in the Jatika Rajya Mantarana Sabhava and not a rep of a party leader as it has come to stay at present, with clear recalling powers vested with the people by the Constitution.’
11 Uttara Mantrana Sabhava
In addition to this an Uttara Mntrana Sabhava of about 30 Senators, 25 representing the 25 districts and 5 nominated could also be set up if the Constitution makers so desire.
(Please see my Siyapanatha published in the Lankaweb for more details or ‘Samakami Samurdimath Dharmika Desayak Sandaha’, a booklet by the Mahanuwara Sinhala Bauddha Jesta Puravesiyange Sanvidhanaya (2015) Published by Maduka Printers Ganemulla, Gampaha WP Sri Lanka. P 24-51. Or Contact me on 081 2232744 or by e-mail gunasekarasudath@gmail.com)
12 Set up a non-political National Advisory Council and a National Planning Council to decide the national policies of the country
Everybody within this country and outside including the so-called minorities must accept this as the Sinhala Buddhist country and the inalienable and non–negotiable rights of the Sinhala people to make above claims. Those who cannot do so must go back to their dream motherlands immediately without trying to carve out or day dream for separate mini-homelands on someone else’s country.. whose legacy it was for millennia.
(I invite those who wants to know more about how this country could be brought to normalcy and once again makes it a peaceful, prosperous and righteous country, to read my article on Siya Panatha (100) in Lankaweb under Sudath Guanekara)
Appeal to the President
Mr President this is the only way for you to prove your honesty, integrity, patriotism and your leadership to the people and the world. Hope good counsel will prevail upon you to make this a golden opportunity to absolve all black marks you have collected since you became the President, without been trapped in the illusion of your expressed obligation, responsibility and duty you are talking about, to solve the problems of Tamils and Muslims on the ground that 90 % of them have voted you at the election as you have publicly declared many a time. They may have voted you as a block. Please remember that Tamils and Muslims voted you not because they like you or trust you but because that is the only way they could have ousted Mahinda and put UNP Ranil at the steering, on whom they had the full trust to get their political agenda implemented. Once they get their jobs done they will discard not only you but Ranil or any other Leader and put to the dust bin in no time.
Also please don’t forget that this country had been the Land of the Sinhalese for 2500 years. Neither you nor anyone else has the right to betray it. I wish wisdom will dawn upon you to mark your niche in Mahawansa. Whether you decide to go down as traitor or hero in the annals of history in this country of the Sinhalese is entirely your choice. Also please note that I have made all these observations in good faith, purely in the interest of the my country and the people, with malice towards none
.Finally, I would like to remind the President and the entire coterie of those who are trying to enact a new Constitution against the wishes of the Sinhala majority that they must remember nearly 5.9 million of Sinhala people have voted against them at the last elections. The weeping and wallowing ghosts of these people and the descendents of the nearly 4 million UNP misled and blind folded voters who will later realize their folly, together constituting the entire dispersed, displaced and destroyed Sinhala people will follow and haunt you as long as you trek through this endless Sansara if you betray them. You will never be pardoned for this Great Sin and their eternal curse will be upon you forever.
We would remind that the main objectives of any Government in this country should be
1 Security of the country.
2 Protecting the territorial integrity, Freedom from both internal and external threats and Sovereignty of the people
3 Working for the good and welfare of the people and maintaining law and order in the country and ensuring good governance
4 Protection of the Sambuddha Sasana and protection of the culture, traditions and customs
In all these areas the present Government has failed miserably. Any person man or woman who is not prepared to accept this reality is never suitable to be the leader of this Island nation.
I don’t claim this package to be a complete prescription for all our ills. I am only trying to open a wider public debate through this note on a very important national issue so that all people will get together to save our country, the nation and its cherished heritage,
that way. We cannot do the same thing what they did to Sarath Fonseka, or what a UNP government did to Wijaya Kumaratunga. We are doing everything in a democratic and in a legal manner. I am observing all these from outside. Those who are investigating these matters are doing it perfectly well. Those who are demanding that MR should be brought back, have been discussing with him while remaining with the President. I am aware of them. What they say is that they will not engage in splitting the party, what they want is withdrawal of all charges made against the members of the Rajapakse family.
Q What do you think about your decision to propose Maithripala Sirisena as the common candidate? 
