{"id":101033,"date":"2020-04-11T15:57:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T22:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101033"},"modified":"2020-04-11T15:57:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T22:57:32","slug":"learning-curve-for-sri-lankas-political-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/11\/learning-curve-for-sri-lankas-political-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The learning curve for Sri Lanka’s political future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

After conquering the Kandyan \u00a0kingdom British established a regime where body tax, property tax, etc were implemented and there was no income tax. British police with Sri Lankan supporters of various Arrachchis\u2019 has ruled the masses with a strict regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country was ruled with an iron fist and people had to work for the rulers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They siphoned our the revenue and yet built some infrastructure like road-rail lines and they also built their underground rail network in London\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had also an establishment code.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We got independency and partial democracy initiated by the British was made to a full democracy under DS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then SWRD based his rule on Nationalism and created Tamil\nSinhala rift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sirimawo went further and tried to bring socialism coupled with quasi communism. She nationalized all most privately owned industries and plantations \u00a0and further brought Russian funded industries\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did not work and JR opened the economy and a dictatorship\nwith a touch of.  democracy was established<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It worked to a certain extent but corruption and indiscipline prevailed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RP further strengthen one-man rule concept with a somewhat iron fist\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He quelled JVP insurrection like MR getting rid of the danger from LTTE and GR now trying to control Corona spread.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then MR came who \u00a0followed the same method but one – family rule was installed with an allegation of mishandling finances and haphazard borrowing and nepotism’\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After MS and RW took over the country stayed standstill except that some changes were made \u00a0to show that one-man show is somewhat diluted<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it backfired  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we have GR who is supposed to be a tough ruler who had to chose which path to take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corona issue had given him a good chance of putting various methods of ruling and crowd control into practice similar to Communist rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making people obey strict rules and socialistic methods to distribute food etc to the poor is put into practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time provincial politicians also make money like under communism, where communist party provincial leaders were pilfering national wealth and abusing power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strict rules on selling liquor are implanted like in the Middle East and it is working\u00a0Rule- breakers are punished with no hesitation sometimes with long bamboo sticks like India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It looks to me that the learning curve is taking place during the last month and it. had given a good chance for GR to decide what type is administration he should have to take the country further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is up to the people to judge, but my opinion is that administering country using law enforcement and the military is the best for our country\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let the name give by JR Socialist Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka remains for namesake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Sarath Obeysekera
CEO Walkers Colombo Shipyard
Colombo
Sri Lanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 After conquering the Kandyan \u00a0kingdom British established a regime where body tax, property tax, etc were implemented and there was no income tax. British police with Sri Lankan supporters of various Arrachchis\u2019 has ruled the masses with a strict regime. The country was ruled with an iron fist and people had to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}