{"id":103445,"date":"2020-06-12T21:55:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T03:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103445"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:48:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:48:01","slug":"apropos-the-vituperative-news-item-gotas-junta-consolidates-after-sc-ruling-ceylon-telegraph-5th-june-2020-by-an-anonymous-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/12\/apropos-the-vituperative-news-item-gotas-junta-consolidates-after-sc-ruling-ceylon-telegraph-5th-june-2020-by-an-anonymous-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Apropos the vituperative news item \u201cGota\u2019s Junta Consolidates after SC Ruling: Ceylon Telegraph 5th June 2020 by an anonymous writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments by Dr. Sudath Gunasekara former Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Badaranayaka and President Sinhala Bauddha Jestha Puravesiyanage Sanvidhanaya Mahanuwara and member viyath manga Kandy Branch.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Your Excellency\nthe President of Sri Lanka, hearty cheers and congratulations on your bold and\npatriotic decision to appoint a set of vibrant and proactive professionals who\nblends patriotism and loyalty to you   as\na Presidential Task force to build a secure country, disciplined, virtuous and\nlawful society\u201d and also to protect the ancient sacred Buddhist places in the\nNorthern and Eastern Provinces in this thrice blessed Island by Gautama the\nBuddha (We wish he will extend this Task Force to cover the whole Island very\nsoon). In addition to the above objectives, I have no doubt your Task Force\nwill also convert this country to an economically prosperous, vibrant and\npeaceful country by eradicating the tyranny of minority politics sawn by Tamil\nand Muslim in this Land of the Sinhala Nation, as it was known all over the\nworld for the past 2500 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We the\ndiscriminated and utterly neglected and betrayed Sinhala Buddhist Bhumiputras\nof this Island nation for the past 72 years by all post Independent governments\nsince the colonial British left the shores of this Island after conferring fake\nIndependence, congratulate you for this historic action you have taken by\nappointing, a powerful Task force of patriotic and competent persons with wide\npowers as stated in the terms of reference of that Task force. This in fact was\na long overdue duty and it constitutes the first visionary step ever taken by\nany statesman in the post- Independence era in order to rebuild our motherland on\nthe correct lines by restoring the birth rights and the unique culture of the\nsons of the soil after 72 years of appalling neglect by all post Independent\nGovernments. I have no doubt it will therefore usher in a golden period in statecraft\nin the history of our motherland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore it\nwill go down in the annals of history of this Island nation as a gloving land\nmark and a turning point in statecraft in this country full of vision followed\nby concrete results since I see it as a welcome departure from the stale\npractice of blindly following the British colonial system of governance meant\nonly to collect the maximum revenue for the Empire as if we never had an\nadvance system of statecraft of our own, little realizing that we were a nation\nwith a rich heritage and a legacy running in to \n2500 years or more, long before the British became a civilized nation.  At least ever since the advent of Buddhism in\n307 BC this country had remained as a Sinhala Buddhist country and the land was\nknown as Sinhale up to 1815. It was ruled by Sinhala Buddhist Kings. The state language\nwas Sinhala. At no time in its history Tamils and Muslims were considered as\nseparate nations. They constituted a part and parcel of the Sinhala nation in\nthe Sinhale. As such no one identified this country as a multi- national,\nmulti-religious and multi linguist country at any time in recorded history,\nuntil President Premadasa declared so driven by minority votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually these\nare the social germs invented by the British to consolidate their rule within a\ndivide and rule policy they practiced right from the beginning of their\noccupation to destabilize and destroy the Sinhala Buddhist civilization in this\ncountry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the\nSinhala people who originally found the civilization in this country and built\nand rebuilt after successive devastations by Cholas and other South Indian\ninvaders from 2nd<\/sup> century BC to 12th<\/sup> century AD. Even in\nmodern history when Europeans invaded from 1505 onwards up to 1948. The Tamils\nand Muslims always took the side of the invaders and they together conspired\nagainst the Sinhala Buddhists. The invaders promoted the minorities in\ndifferent ways and even renamed names of rivers, land and even places in Tamil\nto support their occupation. It was the Sinhala patriotic people who defended\nthe country against all of them while the Tamils and Muslims always took the\nenemy\u2019s side and destroyed the Sinhala Buddhist monuments particularly in the North\nand the East. In more recent times the LTTE terrorist and Muslims Jihadists who\nencroached and invaded on destroyed and vandalized the ancient Sinhala Buddhist\nmonuments that stood in the North and East and many other part of the country that\nwere there for more than 2500 years as the hall mark of the civilization of\nthis Island nation. These vandalisms in recent times were carried out  with the connivance and open support of the communal\nTamil and Muslim politicians while the power hungry unpatriotic Sinhala,\npoliticians in the South belonging to the UNP (as the fathers of the nation\naccepted multi-nationality even in 194when they agreed to name their Party as\nUnited National Party-that construed the concept of many nations) also turned a\nblind eye on such devastations  just to\ncollect their venomous votes to be in power betraying the Sinhala Buddhists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next I would\nlike to draw the attention of all patriotic people in this country to  the main issues raised by this writer in the  above article captioned Gota\u2019s Junta\nConsolidates after SC Ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, he has\ntried to demonize the appointment of a Task force by the President by calling\nit an action that signals a major shift towards authoritarian leadership\u201d This\nis exactly what the 6. 95 million people who voted for GR wanted and I presume\neven more people will definitely vote now for a secure country, disciplined,\nvirtuous, prosperous and lawful society\u201d that was lacking in this country for\ndecades.  Today the need for a strong and\npatriotic leadership has become a foregone conclusion to rescue this country\nout of the mess, politicians have put it into, ever since 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second,\ncriticizing the Supreme Court decision on June 2, 2020 as an act of paving the\nway for unchecked executive rule by the President. This I opine, is a defamatory\ncomment that calls for immediate action against the writer for defamation of\nthe Supreme court. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third alleging\nthe President Gotabaya Rajapaksa looks to be sidelining even the Cabinet of\nMinisters. is designed to create conflict between the President and the Cabinet\nand more particularly between GR and MR, which I think is only a day dream.  In fact the 69.5 million who voted Gotabhaya\nwanted to rectify the mistakes done by all politicians since Independence,\nincluding the lapses of his brother MR between the period 2009-2015 including\nthe most important blunder, the failure to consolidate the war victory on\nground all over the country as Dutugemunu and Vijayaba1 did after their\nvictories over the South Indian invaders in history, and banning communal\npolitical Parties and declaring one law, one official Language (Sinhala)\nand  enacting a new Constitution based on\nour civilization which definitely no one would and could have opposed as he\nhad  more than 2\/3 majority in  Parliament and over 90 % public support in\nthe country. MR\u2018s this failure I note as the biggest failure on his part in\nhistory that eclipse his landmark victory over the LTTE on ground. Therefore I\ndeem it the onerous duty of the 69.5 million Sinhala Buddhist voters to demand\nand compel Gothabhaya to fulfill his sacred duty by the country and the nation\nby rectifying these historical injustices \ndone to this country and the Sinhala nation by all his predecessors and\nprove that he is the incarnation of Gothayimbara the legendary warrior of\nDutugemunu in history and Anagarika Dharmapala, the only Sinhala Buddhist\nleader in Modern times.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fourth the writer\nis also making an attempt to disrupt and demoralize the Public Service and set\nthe sleeping public servants against the Gota\u2019s regime by saying that by this\nact he is trying to establish control over the whole state machinery through\nhis generals. It is aimed at weakening the morale of the Public Service by\ndemoralizing and creating dissention among public servants. Well even in this\nfield Gota is fully justified in making this decision for two reasons. In the\nfirst place the public service any more as has it has miserably failed to do\nits sacred duty by the public as today it has ceased to be a public service any\nmore having converted to a domestic service of the Political Party in power for\nthe time being, for their survival. To that extent these people are also\nequally responsible for the appalling situation in the country along with the\npoliticians since 1948. Second It is the Armed forces that defeated the 30 year\nLTTE war and not the public service. In my opinion winning the present war of\nputting the country in order seems to be even much more difficult than winning\nthe LTTE war. Because, the LTTE war was only 30 year old whereas the mess in\nthe country is 515 years old (1505-2020). This fact also stands heavily in\nsupport of appointing military person to key positions in the machinery of\nGovernance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The writer who\nremains anonymous attributes his observations to legal experts\u201d though he has\nnot mentioned who these legal experts are except in one case where he has cited\nan attorney at law and Jaffna University faculty member Dr K. Guruparan whose\nexistence has to be checked to hide the writer\u2019s nakedness and he is also trying\nto add undue importance and weight to these ideas with the mischievous\nintention of arousing protest by public servants against the President both at\nhome and in the international forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The writer is\naddressing this note to a specific group of people both at Home and abroad who are\nprimarily anti-Sinhala anti Buddhist and anti Sri Lankan.  He also describes the President\u2019s action as a\nthreat to the supremacy of the Parliament and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the\ncountry knows better than this writer the nature of our Parliament and the kid\nof democracy displayed by its members over the years and also what service it\nhas done to the country ever since Independence and its appalling performance\nparticularly during the past 4 and \u00bd years, there is no point in talking about\nthe supremacy of our Parliament.. When one looks at how undemocratically and\nillegally the members of the last Parliament were selected on a district basis\nand the so-called proportional and preferential systems by violating the basic\nprinciples of representative democracy it wants be difficult to understand the\nkind of democracy and the supremacy exists inside it.  Considering the enormous cost of maintaining a\nParliament of 225 with fabulous facilities and life time fat pension with five\nyears extending even to their spouses for no service done but only roaming in\nthe corridors of Parliament, overall majority of people of this country today\nhas come to the conclusion that it is much better to close down this monkey\ncage as one western writer has called and it is far far better to run the country\nby one authoritarian patriotic man if he can build a secure country,\ndisciplined, virtuous and lawful society than leave in it in the hands of a\nclumsy, uneducated and underworld pack of  rogues, including Ministers and Prime\nMinisters who rob even the Nation\u2019s Central Bank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  Meanwhile if you look at the terms of\nreference or the mandate given to the Taskforce all sensible people in the\ncountry will unanimously agree that this is exactly the type of governance this\ncountry needs today. The need for such strong and disciplined programme of\naction handled by a dedicated and committed patriotic team is the crying need\nof the hour to rescue this country and raise it in  to which it had been pushed in by all\npoliticians who were supposed to have ruled this country (rather ruined) since\nIndependence without a clear vision and a mission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for me I\nstrongly believe that this is the way to run this country. I have been always\narguing that only a benevolent Sinhala Buddhist dictator of the type of\nDutugemunu or Dharmasoka can rescue this country from the Augean mess in to\nwhich it has been dumped by our politicians who had no vision or a mission to\nbuild a prosperous and a vibrant independent nation by taking in to\nconsideration the geopolitical potentials of the country\u2019s location on the\nglobe and the bountiful natural resources of land, water and the ocean, right\nround it extending from Arica in the west to Australia in the East and from its\nshores to the Antarctic in the south plus the rich human resources overflowing\nwith creativity and ingenuity as aptly displayed by our forefathers in the past\nwho built a grand  monuments like the\nOcean like reservoirs and sky high Stupas and marvelous irrigation works\nunmatched anywhere else in the ancient or modern world with a model of agrarian\ncivilization unmatched by any in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who does it,\nwhether civilians or uniformed men it does not matter a penny for the people.\nWhat they are interested is the end result. Security, Law and order, economic\nprosperity and freedom from hunger, peace and happiness in life and freedom\nfrom internal and external threats are the basic things people of any country\nare looking for as basic needs of contentment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time\nanother person by the name Keerthaponcalan criticize this attempt as a move for\nSinhalization and buddhissization the East and the North. It is a complete\ncontradiction and a diabolical lie. Because in the first place all these areas\nwere part and parcel of the Sinhala Kingdom, long before Tamils and Muslims\nmoved in to this country in recent times. It was the Tamil and Muslim invaders\nwho have destroyed the age old Buddhist monuments in these areas and trying to\nbuild Tamil and Muslim dream homelands on somebody else\u2019s mother land, that was\nour traditional Homeland  for the past 2\n\u00bd millennia while they have their own Homelands in South India and Arabia.\nThese jokers must realize at least now that this was the land of the Sinhala\nnation for the past 2600 years and therefore they have no right to make any\nclaim over it. But on the other hand the sons of the soil have a legitimate\nright and a claim as well over it as it was their ancestor\u2019s homeland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sinhala\nBuddhists who have been desperately crying for this kind of bold decision by a\nSinhala leader ever since independence are overjoyed to read this news. I have\nno doubt they all hail and welcome the President\u2019s decision as a long overdue dream\ncome true and as such they all stand firmly with the President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 One last word about the uselessness of the Parliament and the\nprovincial Councils. As we all know the Parliament has been now closed for\nnearly 4 months and the Provincial Councils almost for 3 and half years. How\nmuch of people\u2019s money spent on these useless institutions have been saved over\ntime?. How much of confusion in governance and administration we have avoided.\nWhat wonders have been done by one man, the President during the past three and\nhalf months without a noisy and divided Parliament and wasteful and clumsy Provincial\nCouncils with the help of a lean Cabinet of 17 and almost 1\/3 the existing\nstate machinery?. Under this new system decisions are taken quickly ad their implementations\nare even quicker and effective as responsibilities are fixed on task masters.\nPublic funds are not wasted on lotus eater politicians and their lackeys and\nthey are now spent on the needs of the people. If one can get the job done\neffectively, and quickly at minimum cost to the satisfaction of the people the\nquestion is asked as to why we maintain these institutions like a mammoth\nParliament of 225 and, nearly 112 Ministers there 36 Provincial Ministers who\ndo nothing other than enjoying the perks and privileges at the expense of the\npub and creating chaos in district administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I it is today\nthis country has one politician for every 2325 people and one public servant\nfor every 16 people.  Thus we have gone\non record as the country that has the largest number of politicians and the\nlargest number of public Servants per capita in the whole world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As such it is\nhigh time that we think of a system of lean State machinery comprising the\nminimum number of politicians and public servants that is affordable to the\nnational economy. Every man and woman must earn his or her living by work.\nMaintaining a nationwide dansela<\/em>  and breading \nmillions od Nikamas<\/em><\/strong> parasites is not the duty of a government.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going by this\nwonderful experience of Gota\u2019s governing majority of sane people in this\ncountry now think the new President who has already proved that he is a man\nwith a clear vision and a deeply committed mission and equally good in action\nto convert this country to a disciplined, virtuous and lawful society with a\nvibrant and prosperous economy where law and order and justice will prevail for\nthe happiness and wellbeing of its subjects should be given an open mandate to\nchange the entire system of state craft and go for a lean and efficient\nParliament. h Therefore he should be empowered to  with an overwhelming majority Parliament to\nmake a new Constitution that suits this country and run the it with a small\nCabinet and a lean public service \naffordable to the country. The new Constitution should be enacted on the\ncivilization of this country and install a Sabhyatva Raajyak\u201d based on the\nhistory, customs and traditions and its overall culture as Gunadasa Amarasekara\nhas pointed out.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally by going\nthrough the long list of responses to this article filled with blasphemous and\nindecent language used in them one can easily identify the people who rise up\nin arms against this move. It has aptly proved that the objective of the writer\nto rouse the anti- Sinhala- anti-Buddhist elements against Sinhala Buddhist\nmodel has been fulfilled perhaps even beyond his expectations and many\nextremists have hauled their voice criticizing the President\u2019s action.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 It is time now for the President Gothabhaya\nRajapaksa to build up the  patriotic\nSinhala Buddhist State as visualized by first by Anagarika Dharmapala the\ngreatest Sinhala Buddhist revivalist leader born in this country during the\ncolonial times (1865-1933) and initiated to a lesser extent by F.R Senanayaka\nbefore his untimely death in 1926 before his dream was put in to practice with\nhis Janasabha movement and betrayed by all governments since then. This is the\nhistoric mission that has fallen on the new President and I wish that he will be\nblessed by the Tipple Gem and the pantheon of four fold Gods that preside over\nthe destiny of this Island Nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Above all\ncreation of a generation of patriotic people who love this country, its\nbountiful natural resources given by God and its people will form the glittering\ncrest jewel of his crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comments by Dr. Sudath Gunasekara former Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Badaranayaka and President Sinhala Bauddha Jestha Puravesiyanage Sanvidhanaya Mahanuwara and member viyath manga Kandy Branch. Your Excellency the President of Sri Lanka, hearty cheers and congratulations on your bold and patriotic decision to appoint a set of vibrant and proactive professionals who blends patriotism […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sudath-gunasekara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103445","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=103445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}