{"id":104799,"date":"2020-07-23T16:16:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104799"},"modified":"2020-07-23T16:16:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:16:45","slug":"people-may-elect-sajith-premadasa-to-parliament-it-is-president-who-names-prime-minister-sinhala-buddhists-are-not-racists-finally-we-are-lucky-having-a-rajapaksa-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/23\/people-may-elect-sajith-premadasa-to-parliament-it-is-president-who-names-prime-minister-sinhala-buddhists-are-not-racists-finally-we-are-lucky-having-a-rajapaksa-family\/","title":{"rendered":"People may elect Sajith Premadasa to Parliament, it is President who names Prime Minister. Sinhala Buddhists are not racists finally , we are lucky having a Rajapaksa family."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Nearly 7 million people have elected Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the\nPresident of Sri Lanka on the 16 November,2019 approving his Presidential\nelection manifesto  Saubhaagye Dakma or the Ten  Principles of\nInclusive Governance<\/strong>. According to democracy we claim to practice in Sri\nLanka, all the people of Sri Lanka belonging to different political parties\nwhether they voted or not for  Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the President of Sri\nLanka have to accept the verdict of the majority of the people, and\naccept  Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the President of Sri Lanka and his political\nmanifesto as the political  plan of development of Sri Lanka for the next\nfive years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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End of last year saw Sajith Premadasa pushing himself  to the\nmaximum, claiming to have in him  dynamic power, and genes of the dead to\nrule Sri Lanka as its President,  as no President  had ever\ndone  before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But with all those unrestrained outbursts he was defeated at the\nelection and got blown off like an empty  balloon. He then disappeared\nfrom circulation\u201d, and  the people wondered  what had happened to\nhim.  However, he next showed up as the leader of the opposition in the\nparliament chasing the media personnel from entering his office. Sajith\nPremadasa  who says he  is democratric does not seem to have \naccepted the President of Sri Lanka elected with an overwhelming majority as\nhis President as well, and showed that he is all out to make governing\ndifficult for the President, by refusing to pass the vote on account presented\nto the Parliament by the government.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After dissolution of the Parliament and a general  election\nwas called for the election of the members of the Parliament,  Sajith\nPremadasa reappeared before the public , as a leader of a Political party \nSamagi jana balavegaya, this time asking the people  to elect him to be\nthe Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. He has refurbished his old speeches he used\nlast year for his failed presidential election campaign,  and renders them\nwith revived mechanical vigors he claims to have,  swearing once again\nto the public in his election campaign meetings, that he still has those\nmachine power and genes of the dead to carry him forward and if fortune would\nsmile a little more brighter this time to rule the country\u201d, as the Prime\nMinister !! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If what is said about democracy still holds good, one does not get\nelected as a Prime Minister, but the President of the country appoints a member\nof the Parliament who in his opinion is most likely to command the confidence\nof the Parliament, in terms of the Constitution of the country,  \nTherefore  it is presumptuous  for Sajith Premadasa to go round\nasking the people to elect him to be the Prime Minister, or as a matter of fact\neven Ranil Wickramasinghe, or Mahinda Rajapakse to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Sajith Premadasa relying on the dynamism of his youth,\nand the genes of the dead he claims to have in his possession,  recently\nanswered questions at a public show in  his best British Council English\naccent, where he ignored the President of Sri Lanka as a mere individual in a\ncountry where there is a tripartite rule under the Constitution. And explained\nhow  he is going to implement the election manifesto he has just launched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But tripartite or no, the President of Sri Lanka has been elected\nby a large majority of the people of the country to carry out his Presidential\nelection manifesto, and the same people at the same time rejected Sajith\nPremadasa from having anything to do with the Presidency of Sri Lanka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In such a situation Sajith Premadasa if elected has only to work\nwith the elected President of the Sri Lanka His Excellency Gotabaya Rajapakse,\nwho has already started the implementation of his Manifesto – The Ten\nPrinciples of Inclusive Governance. Sajith Premadasa has no alternative, but to\nfall in line with the Democratic System and wait to see what  His\nExcellency the President of Sri lanka Gotabaya Rajapakse will decide after the\ngeneral election of the Parliament. Will Sajith Premadasa be the Prime Minister\n? Que sera sera\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Podujana Peramuna  is asking the people to give them\na two third majority in the parliament at the elections,  to have an edge\nover other political parties to expect that its leader may be appointed as the\nPrime Minister. That is a wiser move, than that of  Sajith Premadasa who\nblinded by Prime Ministerial ambition seems already to have taken the role\nof  an executive Prime Minister perhaps dreaming once elected,  to\nrelegate his excellency  the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to a role of a\nceremonial President. Ranil Wickramasinha,  not wanting to play a second\nrole to Sajith Premadasa in front of the people, also claims the  position\nof the Prime Minister in the next Parliament !!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is all a guessing game for Sajith\u2019s supporters and those of\nRanil, which election manifesto is Sri Lanka going to implement ?  But\nthey have all forgotten that nearly 7 million people have accepted the\nPresidential political manifesto of His Excellency the President Gotabhaya\nRajapaksa-the  Vision of Prosperity or  the Ten  Principles\nof Inclusive Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sajith Premadasa seems to be at the peak  of pushing his\nyouth, dynamos, and the genes of the dead he possesses. His aim now is to bait\nvoters- UNP\u2019s old tactic which it used successfully to fool the voters to vote\nagainst President Mahinda Rajapakse at the Presidential election in 2015, which\nwas to promise a salary increase of Rs.30000,00 to government servants. \nThat worked, and Sajith Premadasa seems to hold onto the same old tactic  \nthis time,  promising everyone  an allowance of Rs.20,000,00, and\nRanil Wickramasinhe promising Rs.10,000,00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rightly speaking,  the Commissioner of Elections should\nprohibit candidates making  election promises of  financial aid or\ngrants if elected. It is as good as giving  bags of cements, or roof\nsheets. If the Election Commission stopped giving appointments to employ\nunemployed  graduates as he said it is  against the Election Law, so\nshould be promises of  financial aid  or allowances  if elected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people should look at these parliamentary candidates like\nSajith Premadasa, or Ranil Wickramasinghe as potential trouble makers in a\nfuture parliament where the President has presented a workable election\nmanifesto to modernise Sri Lanka bringing it out of the mess into which several\nof the former governments which had acted for their own  or for the\nbenefit of their clan members  rather than to help the country and its\npeople as a whole. After 72 years,  it is time Sri Lanka  agrees for\na common plan  of development without different political parties\nproposing their own, each wanting to take credit for the final outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna has formed an alliance and also present\ntheir own political manifesto  asking people to give them a chance to\ncarry out their proposals. That means JVP and its alliance of political\npartners are asking the people to allow them to try  out their plan to\nmake Sri Lanka  their guinea-pig\u201d to see whether their proposed method\nwould help in the development of the country. Is it that the people want ?\nAllow political parties to carry out experiments  with the country and its\npeople to see whether their methods will work better  than those previous\nmethods that had been tried and mostly failed ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is not that what Sri Lanka had been doing since  independence\n?  Sajith Premadasa as much as Ranil Wickramasinha have not tried out any\nplans before and got results to show the people that they have the best method\nto develop the country.  The result of these political experimenting left\nus with a thirty year of separatist terrorism,  and today with a \ncountry in a financial cricis with an economic groth less than that of\nAfghanistan the result of a four years of Yahapalanaya  in the midst ofa\npandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until 2005 no one came forward with any suggestion to end the\nterrorism and put Sri Lanka onto a path of development. Now Sajith Premadasa,\nhaving failed to have been elected the President wants to be the Prime\nMinister,  to carry out the same programme of development he proposed when\nhe campaigned as the Presidential Candidate.   Sajith Premadasa as the\nPresidential candidate had to wait a long time to put forward his election\nmanifesto which came much later than that of his  rival candidate Gotabaya\nRajapaksa,  and  Sajith Premadasa\u2019s political manifesto some\nfound  repeating in different terms  certain parts of  his rival\nCandidate Gotabhaya Rajpaksa\u2019s manifesto.  Sajith Premadasa has no\npolitical vision and therefore  cannot produce any valid workable\ndevelopment plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His Excellency the President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was  and is\na practical man.  He had gone through life the hard way as a battle\nhardened soldier knocking on the doors of death most of the time. And he proved\nafter he was entrusted with the Defense Ministry as its Secretary that he can\nwork with different people with different experience and get them all together\nto successfully end the terrorist war that lasted for thirty long years without\nany one even making a positive suggestion to end it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarath Fonseka was in the helm of the Armed Forces in 2004 and was\non the verge of retirement  when Gotabaya Rajapaksa was called to be the\nSecretary of Defence. It was Gotabaya Rajapakse who got Sarath Fonseka back to\nthe army and made him  the Commander of it. But  Sarath Fonseka lacks\nthe gratitude to accept it. But Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a silent man who does not\nwant to take credit for what he does. To him it does not matter whether one\nappreciates him or not, but  he wants a job of work well done,\ngenerous  to give credit for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another criticism leveled against the Government  by the\nSajith Premadasa, and also coming from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna  is\nagainst promoting Sinhala Buddhism which for them  is racism. It is a\nwrong understanding of historical reality.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being Sinhala Buddhist is not being against Tamils , Muslims or\nany one else, it signifies a cultural trait of the people and an inane\ngenerosity  which makes Sinhala Buddhists a friendly people who are ready\nto accept into their  fold those who demand acceptance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was that Sinhala Buddhist trait which saw even during the\nterrorist war\u201d Sri Lanka Armed Forces sending lorry loads of food items to the\npeople in war zones, the army saving thousands of people in distress kept as\nhuman shields by the terrorists, and the Sinhala Buddhists in the South sending\nto those people in refugee camps in the North packets of rice, clothes and dry\nrations almost on a regular basis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly,  Sajith Premadasa complains that the government is\nonly promoting a family,  Rajapaksa family.  This may sound so, and\nit  is an easy target of attack . But if one looks at that family\nobjectively without any bias, one may realise that  it is not so. In a way\nSri Lanka is fortunate in having had that Rajapakse family. It seems that\nRajapakse  family has a natural ability  to attract people, \nmake that family  a refuge of safety, a family that has the  ability\nto foresee and deliver what makes others happy, giving them an assurance of\npeace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What other family in Sri Lanka could make that claim ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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