{"id":103211,"date":"2020-06-05T16:05:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T23:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103211"},"modified":"2020-06-05T16:05:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T23:05:35","slug":"what-if-elections-commission-delay-elections-for-further-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/05\/what-if-elections-commission-delay-elections-for-further-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IF ELECTIONS COMMISSION DELAY ELECTIONS FOR FURTHER TWO YEARS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Those\nwho represent the symbol of old Telephone or Jathika Samagi Balawegaya\n&nbsp;petitioned to the Supreme Court with its legal position that  <strong>the\nConsolidated Fund and Other State Controlled Funds&nbsp; which are under the\ndirect control&nbsp; and supervision of the Parliament cannot be activated at a\ntime when there is no functioning Parliament\u201d. The Learned Judges rejected\nthe&nbsp; strongest arguments by the Petitioners&nbsp; and refused to&nbsp;\ntake it&nbsp; up for further consideration.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"606\" height=\"342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gotabaya-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gotabaya-1.jpg 606w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gotabaya-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(Man\nwith a Mission and Vision)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\ndecision has now provided an excellent opportunity with Executive Powers&nbsp;\nto the President Gotabaya Rajapakse to embark on new&nbsp; projects and\/or\ncontinue the existing previously neglected revenue earning small, medium and\nlarge scale capital investments.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Mrs Anuradha Yahampath, the\nGovernor of Eastern Province and Mrs P S M Charles, the Governor of Northern\nprovince have turned the two provinces to improve the unemployment problems and\nliving standards &nbsp;of Tamils, Muslims and minority Sinhalese.\nThe&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; neglected private&nbsp; and State Corporations as well as\nnew industries have been started, those who did nothing but created hatred\nagainst minority Sinhalese will have their days numbered.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mr\nWimal Weerawansa, <\/strong>the Minister of Industries is one of\nbusiest Ministers performing difficult tasks, especially in Northern and\nEastern Provinces, in co-ordination with the Governors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The\nPresident Gotabaya need uninterrupted free-hand to do what he plan to achieve. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On\nthe other hand, though Mr Mahinda Rajapakse became the Prime Minister again in\nNovember, 2019 his new tenure as Prime Minister of a new Parliament has still\nnot begun. <strong>Is this &nbsp;a bonus period for him for 50 years of service to\nthe nation?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"209\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/mahindaarriving-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103213\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"606\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mahindaworshiping-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mahindaworshiping-1.jpg 606w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mahindaworshiping-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(<\/strong>\u0db4\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca\n\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0dda \u0d85\u0db1\u0dda<strong>\n<\/strong><strong>\u0db6\u0dcf\u0dbd<\/strong><strong>\n<\/strong>\u0dbd\u0db8\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0dda<strong>, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u0db8\u0d9c\u0dda<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>\u0d9a\u0dd4\u0da9\u0dcf<\/strong><strong>\n<\/strong><strong>\u0db1\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dc3<\/strong><strong>\n<\/strong><strong>\u0d9a\u0da9\u0dcf<\/strong><strong>\n<\/strong><strong>\u0db6\u0dd2\u0db8<\/strong><strong>\n<\/strong><strong>\u0db1\u0ddc\u0daf\u0db8\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0dda<\/strong><strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If\nSri Lanka is to be developed, we need to create a new mold and pour molten\nmetal&nbsp; to obtain the desired patterns.<\/strong>&nbsp; The\nFerrous Scrap needed as raw materials can be found in the previous Parliament!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\nwish the Election Commission will derive Wisdom and Courage not to hold the\nGeneral Election for at least 2 more years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE Those who represent the symbol of old Telephone or Jathika Samagi Balawegaya &nbsp;petitioned to the Supreme Court with its legal position that the Consolidated Fund and Other State Controlled Funds&nbsp; which are under the direct control&nbsp; and supervision of the Parliament cannot be activated at a time when there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103211","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=103211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}