{"id":104216,"date":"2020-07-03T14:56:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T21:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104216"},"modified":"2020-07-03T14:56:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T21:56:19","slug":"landslide-for-the-slpp-and-a-whitewash-for-the-unp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/03\/landslide-for-the-slpp-and-a-whitewash-for-the-unp\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslide for the SLPP and a whitewash for the UNP."},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

What people of this country should do at the upcoming election to save the Sinhala Nation, the Buddha Sasana, and the country and to take it to new heights?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.7.2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My prediction on the August 5th General Election <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Landslide\nvictory for the SLPP and a white wash for the UNP and nemesis for all communal\npolitical parties and Independent candidates<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the people\nof this country should do at the upcoming election to ensure this reality <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before I present\nmy write up on the above topic I give here my prediction made on the last\nPresidential Election on 14 Oct 2019 in an email I sent to Mr Gothabhaya\nRajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your victory as well as that of the country is a\nforegone conclusion. I am repeating, you will be definitely starting with at\nleast 65 lakhs the minimum that is what the SLPP, UPF and SLFP got at the 2018\nLocal Government Elections. Looking at the present trend no one should be\nsurprised even if it exceeds 70 lahks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(This is the\nopening passage of an email sent to Gothabhaya on 14.Oct 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accuracy of\nmy prediction was proved   to the letter\nwhen he polled 6,924,255 votes and won that election and I take pride in that\nforecast as I was the only man who said so. Even my teacher at the University,\nan internationally acclaimed eminent scholar emeritus Professor Gerald Peiris\nexpressed his reservations on my conclusion. But I persistently maintained my\nconviction and finally it was proved correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly I am\nmaking this prediction this time too on the upcoming General election after\nmaking an in-depth study of the political situation on ground by listening to\npeople in the work place, paddy field and on the street. Changes bound to occur\nin the behavior of the electorate between now and the 5th of August also has\nbeen taken in to consideration in arriving at this conclusion. The rousing\nwelcome received by the President at the SLPP\u2019s inaugural election meeting held\nat Anuradhapura today is good forecast of  the prediction I am making  in this note. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawn of a historic land mark in the political history\nof this Island nation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I opine the next\nGeneral Election is going to be an important land mark in the political history\nof this Island nation for the following reasons. It will also mark a turning\npoint in the post-Independence period of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beginning of\nthis turning point will dawn with this political revolution that will emerge\nwith the election results on the 6th<\/sup> of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A political Revolution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1The SLPP will\nget over 175 out of 225 seats in the next Parliament (Eg 155 elected and 20\nnational list)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 2 The divided and disarrayed UNP (R+P camps\ntogether) will settle around 35 (elected + national list)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 TNA 12 elected\nand 1 National list member<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 JVP will get\neliminated<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 Others not\nbelonging to 1 to 4=2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 All\nindependent candidates will lose even their deposits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demise of\nUNP at this selection will create a political vacuum. The need for such a new\nnational political party is called for as both traditional parties, the UNP and\nthe SLFP are no more  there. That will\ngive rise to a chance for a new national Political Party that is more patriotic\nand village based, to take over the country when one day the SLPP fails in its\nduty by the Nation. The SLPP will govern the country under the present\npatriotic regime at least for 15 years. That is Gota at least 10 and his\nsuccessor 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I predict this overall\nresult on the basis of two sets of mutually exclusive factors coming in to play\nat this election, one negative and the other positive. The most significant\nfeature of this political revolution is that the interaction of both these\ndiametrically opposed factors will have negative effects on the UNP vote base as\na political party. Vituperative and mudslinging at each other, devoid of any substance  or constructive political dialogue by these\ntwo Camps (R&S) spearheaded by corrupt, baseless, verbose and vicious\npolitical misfits like Sajit, Rajita, Champika, Vijitamuni Zoysa and Kiriella and\nextreme communalists like Hakim. Badurdeen on one side and Bank robbers,\ntraitors like Ranil, Mangala, Ravi, Range Bandara and jokers like Ranjan\nRamanayaka and Mervin Mervin Silva will meteorically enhance the chances of the\nSLPP to unexpected levels, recording a landslide victory never expected by any,\nincluding even those in the SLPP and the President\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First let us look at the negative factors <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1This election\nis held after a period of 5 years of complete anarchy and political and economic\nmismanagement in this country under Sirisena\u2013Ranil- Karu three headed Government.\nGoing by the present situation in the country, the political environment in the\ncountry could be compared to a sinking and wrecking ship in mid seas caught by\na Tsunami, sans a captain to rescue and navigate it in the proper direction for\nsafety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 This election is\nalso held at a time when the country is beset with extremely serious crises in a\nplethora of political, economic and social fields and the collapse of national\nsecurity and law and order never witnessed before in this country.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 The country is\ngoing through a serious economic depression after the nation\u2019s Central Bank was\nrobbed by the then ruling UNP, manipulated by none other than the Prime\nMinister of that so-called Government and subsequently the whole country paralyzed\nby extremist Muslim terrorist attacks on the economic and religious nerve\ncenters of the country, now in complete disarray and reached its lowest growth level\nin its 72 years of Independence. On the top of it is a time when the whole  world is undergoing one of the most difficult\nand unpredictable future due to the world wide Covid 19 pandemic that has almost\ncrippled the whole world and brought it virtually on its knees almost to a\nnon-returnable situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 The country\u2019s\neconomy is also undergoing one of the most difficult times ever in its history\nmore or less facing a national crisis level with no agricultural or industrial\nproduction and nor exports, and where the main foreign exchange inflow channels\nlike foreign employment has almost got dried up and printed money has to be\npumped in billions to run the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 Scanty\ndomestic FE reserves and worldwide economic depression and limitations and constraints\non imports due to global restriction on shipping and international trade mechanisms\nhas badly affected both exports and imports<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 Meanwhile\ncontinued interference and competition by powerful countries to take control of\nour strategic situation on the great E-W trade route in the Indian Ocean in\nview of its importance in the context of emerging supremacy of the Indo-Pacific\nzone in world politics and by various International organizations agencies and\ncountries like UK. Germany, Canada and Norway driven by LTTE Diaspora elements hostile\nto this country that are trying to create disunity within the country for\nexample between the various ethnic and religious groups also have created many\na problem to this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The positive side<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 In spite of\nthis darker side, after 72 years of So-called Independence on the other hand, we\nas a nation have got a patriotic and strong Sinhala Buddhist Statesman in\nPresident Gothabhaya Rajapaksa as a man with a clear vision and a mission who has\na proven capacity  to successfully face\nall these challenges of  this multifaceted\nconundrum and take this country out of the Augean mess it has been put in to by\nall politicians who are supposed to have ruled this country for the past 72\nyears since the so-called Independence.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of them\nknew the kind of fake Independence they got in 1948. As I see it none of them\nknew that the kind of Independence given by the British was only a transfer of\ncontinuation of the same British governance mechanism to a set of local kaluSuddhas<\/em> to run the country as their\nproxy. This is exactly what, we are doing even today. But the politicians call\nit Independence. The true Bhumiputras of this country, that is Sinhala\nBuddhists have elected Gothabhaya Rajapaksa as their new leader. They expects\nnew President to make this country a fully pledge Independent and sovereign\nState after this election.  This perhaps\nis the priority number one the people of this country expect from him. This\nlong overdue political   strategy forms the cornerstone of all the rest\nas an as Independent sovereign and free country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  Is  Diyasena Born at last?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going by his\npast record as the Secretary of the Ministry of Defense as to how he defeated\nthe LTTE and how he converted Colombo to be recognized as the best City in Asia\nwithin four years after the war are enough testimonies for his ability and\nleadership as a task master. His peerless success in these two fields almost\nmade him the Sinhala Buddhist benevolent leader overnight; the nation was desperately\nlooking for seven decades. That is why the whole nation almost unanimously got\nhim elected as the 8th<\/sup> President of this Island nation with 6,924,255\nvotes that gave him an unprecedented majority of 1,360,016 in spite numerous false\nand vicious conspiracies and intrigues\u2019 relentlessly deployed against him until\nthe last moment by anti-national ant-Sinhala forces both from within the\ncountry and outside, the shores to prevent him from getting even nominations. All\nsuch attempts were successfully foiled and finally truth prevailed, justice won\nand he got elected as the 8th<\/sup> President of this country to the\noverwhelming joy of Sinhala nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The way how he\nhas conducted in office as well as in personal life since he was sworn in front\nof the Ruwanwelimahaseya and his short but dignified and patriotic speech from\nthe hallowed precincts of the Great Stupa reminded me ancient traditions of our\ngreat Kings who swore in in front of the Mahasangha to rule the Lankan Kingdom\naccording to the Dasaraaja Dhamma. How he set about thereafter by ordering not\nto exhibit his photo in Government offices, reducing his staff, and even\nsecurity and banning all state tamasa, reducing the Cabinet to 17 and his\nsimple dress and manners won the admiration and the hearts of the masses of\nthis country. How he managed the Covid 19 pandemic when even countries like USA\nhave miserably failed, has already made him the most outstanding national\nleader the post Independent Sri Lanka has produced. The majority in the country\nare unanimous on this consensus. For them he is already a national idol and a\nhero as well. For the poor and those deprived of their daily bread due to the\nCovid 19 disaster, the food basket and the 5000 payment given was manna from\nheaven in their difficult times.  As for\nme I see in him the legendary Diyasena, eulogized in Perakumbasirita by Sri\nThotagamuve Rahula Thera is born at last to rescue this thrice blessed Punyabhuumi,\nby Lord Buddha. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patriotic and honest Sinhala Buddhist task master<\/strong> cum – true Statesman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these actions\non his part have convinced the masses that at last after 72 years of so-called\nIndependence they have got a Patriotic and honest Sinhala Buddhist task master cum\n– true Statesman of proven ability and unblemished character beyond any doubt\nin Gothabahay Rajapaksa, as the Head of State. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 At the same\ntime there is an unprecedented emerging unity among the Sinhala nation from\nwest to East and North to South and from the sea to the top of Samangira\nencompassing the whole country sans all their differences like caste, creed and\nreligion as one nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 A towering\nsense of belonging together is also emerging among the masses throughout the\ncountry as one nation getting polarizes around the exemplary leadership of Gothabha\nand Mahinda inspired by the support of the Maha Sangha right round the country in\nunison and Catholic clergy headed by His Eminence Cardinal Malcom Ranjit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 The splitting\nof the UNP (a dead party in any case) in to two parts under two Kalusuddhas<\/em>, Ruinil as someone has named\nhim and Sajit a round peg in a square hole, both of whom have no leadership\nqualities and don\u2019t feel the pulses of the masses as both of them being direct\nproducts of the Colombian society, do not know what Sri Lanka is. Both of the\nthink Colombo is Sri Lanka. They are for personal gain and glory rather than\nthe concern for the common people. This Colombian leadership of right Royal\nCollege products has left the grass root UNPers disgusted, dismayed, frustrated\nand high and dry. Majority of UNPers have already realized that hanging on to out\ndated UNP will not take them anywhere under the prevailing situation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In sum all of\nthem know pretty well that there is virtually no UNP as an alternative\nPolitical party that can come to power in the foreseeable future. It is already\ndead and buried under six feet or more, thanks to Ruinil and Sajit Premadasa.\nNo one will hear about the UNP after 5th<\/sup> of August. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 The patriotic younger\ngeneration looking for change and new hopes getting attracted by this new\nleadership qualities displayed by Gota have already got rallied round him<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 Nationwide\nhope and the dream for political stability under a joint partnership between\nthe proven and able leadership qualities of the Rajapaksa brothers specially\nthe charismatic MR and proactive and dynamic Gota the task master who does not\ntolerate humbug and who has aptly proved his capacity in his war against the\nsavages LTTE, as the Defense Sec of the country and as the President of the\ncountry from the day he was elected as \nthe President have made the people confident that at last they have got\nthe leadership they were looking for decades who can rescue this country out of\nthe political, economic and Social mess in to which successive Government have\ndumped it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 The newly\nemerging wave of unprecedented Sinhala Buddhist nationalism and the sense of\npatriotism  gathering momentum around\nthis new leadership supported by the three Forces, Professionals, Civil Servants\nand the Six National Forces sanga, veda, guru, Govi-kamkaru and Ranaviru and\nthe youth votes around the country brimming with new hope like a multi barrel\nwar machine rolling across the battle field is taking the lead  for nation building under the new President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 At the same time we see all round auspicious\nsings like anti-national elements getting caught and exposed daily clearing the\nway for the nation to march forward without any obstacles. In this most\nencouraging and welcome backdrop, the Pohottuwa will emerge victorious in a\nlandslide victory unheard and unseen in the political history of post\nIndependent Sri Lanka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My prediction on the 2019 Presidential Election <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I predicted Gotha\nwill get 69-70 lakhs at the last Presidential poll and Gota polled 6,924,255. Based\non the same argument at this election the SLPP should get it increased to at\nleast 80 lakhs of votes taking in to account the ground reality factors like the\ndefections from the UNP, JVP, Tamil and Muslim votes and new youth segment.\nEven the minorities who are fed up with their own communal minded extremist politicians\nwho have ruined them over the decades without doing any service to their people,\n are seriously looking for a complete\nchange in Sri Lanka politics. Therefore the SLPP should bag at least 155 out of\n196 elected seats and it will therefor, should bag at least 20 national list pin<\/em> slots as well, making the total to\nstand around 175. The UNP disarrayed factions together are very unlikely to get\neven 25 lakhs this time as against the 5,564,239 Premadasa polled at the\nPresidential election .Premadasa will get 2,500,000 less than what he got at the\nPresidential election. This is the Tamil and Muslim component which Premadasa\nwill not get this time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 A substantial\nnumber out of UNP voters will also vote with the Pohottuwa this time as they are\nconvinced that there is no point in betting a losing horse. Majority of disgusted\nUNP hard liners will boycott elections and that will also drastically reduce\nthe UNP votes. The JVP as usual will get eliminated at this election for their\nsins they have committed to this nation and they are also very unlikely to get\nany national list slots either. The chances of UNP getting Thodamans votes is\nalso not there at this election as Mahinda has played his cards well, the SLPP will\nget a majority of Estate Tamil votes. With Digambarans help Premadasa might get\nat least one seat more than Ranils faction on the overall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 On the other hand even if those brainless\nSinhala Budhhist UNPers who are suffering from chronic and incurable UNP\nconstipation syndrome fail to realize the gravity and the seriousness of the\ncrime they are going to commit against the Sinhala nation and the Sinhala\nBuddhist civilization in this country by voting an anti-Sinhala, anti- Buddhist\nand anti-national force, that is UNP, now fast disintegrating and disappearing\nas a political force in no time from the surface of this land, no man or god\ncan  stop the victory of the Sinhala\nBuddhist forces led by Rajapaksas. There is a likelihood of all Sinhala forces drifting\ntowards this historic goal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under these\ncircumstances no one can stop the MR Camp getting at least 175 seats in the 2020\nParliament and it will go down in history as the biggest electoral victory ever\nin the post Independent Sri Lanka by any political Party. As for me, I am fully\nconfident that this miracle will happen on the 5th of August, the results of\nwhich will be obvious by the 6th evening.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My appeal to the Sinhala Buddhist nations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whole nation\nshould rise in unison as a mighty force like the Phoenix from ashes under the\nnew patriotic and vibrant leadership of President Rajapaksa taking the above\nsituation as a stimulant and a blessing in disguise for us to march forward as\none united and determined nation. I do not think you will get a better chance\nthan this to get your aspirations realized again. If you neglect your duty by\nthe nation and the country at this time I can vouch you, you might never get\nsuch an opportunity at any time in future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once we do our\nduty I am confident Gothabhaya and Mahinda will lay the firm foundation to\nrescue this country and the Sinhala Nation from all misdeeds and omissions committed\nby all the previous Governments since 1948 at least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What all of us, the patriotic people of this country\nhave to do at this election<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 All the patriotic people of this country have\nto give the President a strong and stable Government by voting en-block to the\nSLPP at the forthcoming election to enable them   to have a strong government exceeding 2\/3\nmajority under MR in Parliament to enable it carry out the Presidents avowed\nmission by the nation and our motherland. That I think is the best lesson\npatriotic people of this country can teach cynics like Rajan Philip and other\nlunatiks like Rajeewa Jayaweera (see Island 27th 2020 At the centre of it will\nbe Rajapaksa v. Rajapaksa, sounding like Kramer v. Kramer of by Rajan Philip) who\nare trying to drive a wedge between Mahinda and Gota to deprive this nation of\nthis unprecedented golden opportunity of rescuing the Sinhala nation and the\nmotherland from the Augean mess in to which it has been put in to by all those\nwho were supposed to have ruled this country since 1948.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara What people of this country should do at the upcoming election to save the Sinhala Nation, the Buddha Sasana, and the country and to take it to new heights? 3.7.2020. My prediction on the August 5th General Election Landslide victory for the SLPP and a white wash for the UNP and […]<\/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-104216","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\/104216","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=104216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}