{"id":105567,"date":"2020-08-16T23:39:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T05:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105567"},"modified":"2020-08-16T16:12:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T23:12:12","slug":"the-slpp-2-3-majority-government-should-take-control-of-the-political-democratic-process-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/16\/the-slpp-2-3-majority-government-should-take-control-of-the-political-democratic-process-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SLPP 2\/3 MAJORITY GOVERNMENT SHOULD TAKE CONTROL OF THE POLITICAL DEMOCRATIC PROCESS IN SRI LANKA."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communications Researcher, SLFP\/SLPP Stalwart and Convener \u2013 The Muslim Voice\u201d, August 15th., 2020.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

The cut-off point in proportional\nrepresentation has to change from 5% to 12.5% in the new constitution.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

POLITICAL\nPARTIES BASED ON COMMUNITY, RELIGION AND COMMUNAL BASIS HAS TO BE BANNED IN SRI\nLANKA BY THE 2\/3 MAJORITY NEW GOVERNMENT, THE SINHALESE COMMUNITY AND\nNATIONALIST SINHALA FORCES IMMEDIATELY UNDER ANY NEW CONSTITUTION TO BE\nPRESENTED IN PARLIAMENT. FOR THIS \u2013  ALL SINHALA FORCES, INCLUDING THE\nMAHA SANGHA, THE SLFP, UNP (those who love the maathruboomiya\u201d), JVP AND OTHER\nPATRIOTIC POLITICAL PARTIES INCLUDING THE SLPP\/SLFP SHOULD GIVE THEIR FULLEST\nSUPPORT TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. SEVENTY FOUR PERCENTAGE (74% ) SINHALA MP\u2019s\n(voters) CAN EASILY DO THIS. MINORITY REPRESENTATION SHOULD ONLY BE IN THE\nNATIONAL PARTIES BY MEMBERSHIP AND BY BEING ELECTED FOR OFFICE IN THOSE\nPARTIES.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THIS\nIS THE ONLY WAY VOTE BANK CREATION BY MINORITY COMMUNITY POLITICAL LEADERS (THE\nMUSLIMS AND TAMILS) WHO TRADE THE VOTE BANK FOR SELFISH PERSONAL BENEFITS,\nFORGOING THE REAL BENEFITS FOR WHICH THE MINORITY GROUPS, ESPECIALLY THE MUSLIM\nVOTERS CAN BE SURE TO REAP THE TRUE BENEFITS OF THEIR POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS AND\nINSPIRATIONS, BE MADE POSSIBLE \/ A REALITY. A good example is the confession\nmade by Rauf Hakeem when Rauf Hakeem admitted that he took money from Mahinda\nRajapaksa, then President, to vote in favour of the 18th., Amendment\nBill to the constitution on September 8th., 2010. One of the SLMC\nstalwarts, Segu Dawood exposed this incident and Rauf Hakeem admitted it in\npublic. Browse this web link and learn how this political leader (MP. Rauf\nHakeem) got money to vote for the 18th., Amendment in parliament on 8th.,\nSeptember 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.jaffnamuslim.com\/2016\/07\/blog-post_144.html<\/a> \n(for Muslim tamil readers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1994, when\nthe SLMC found an opportunity, supported by R. Premadasa to reduce the cut-off\npoint in proportional representation from 12.5 to 5 per cent, in return NOT to\nfield a Muslim candidate as a Presidential candidate, to stop the Muslims\nvoting Premadasa. This done, the SLMC joined the UNP. <\/strong>Rishad\nBathiudeen and the Atthaullah, regional Eastern province Muslim party), began\nto adopt THIS POLITICAL TRADING OF THE MUSLIM VOTES\u201d and making DEALS\u201d with the\nnational parties that were struggling to form governments, to form goverments,\nthat was of NO BENEFIT, BUT DETRIMENTAL TO THE MUSLIM FACTOR\u201d. These deals were\nsupported by the All Ceylon Jamiyathul Ulema and so-called Muslim Civil Society\ngroups, whose leadership also were given a SHARE\u201d of these SPOILS and\nBENEFITS\u201d, became the NORM\u201d of the SLMC, ACMC, NATIONAL CONGRES, ACJU, THE\nNATIONAL SHOORA COUNCIL and the MUSLIM COUNCIL OF SRI LANKA, in the equation of\nMinority politics in Sri Lanka since 1994\/1980. As a result of these\ndeceptions, the Muslims in Sri Lanka do NOT have a voice \u2013 a POLITICAL\nVOICE\u201d for that purpose. The Muslims did not benefit to resolve their\neconomical, employment, development, land education and fundamental rights\nissues by VOTING the SLMC, ACMC or THE NATIONAL CONGRESS. The Muslims became\nPOLITICAL ORPHANS\u201d in Sri Lanka at last. Today this has become a MENACE and a\nSICKNESS in the democratic political process of our country. Not only has it\naffected the Sri Lanka Muslims, but also PRALALYSED THE DEMOCRATIC RIGHT OF THE\nMAJORITY SINHALA COMMUNITY WHICH IS 74% OF THE NATION TO MAKE ANY DECECIVE\nPOLITICAL CONCLUSSION BENEFICAL TO THEIR AND OUR MAATHRUBOOMIYA\u201d OR TO AMEND \/\nADJUST THE CONSTITUTION TO THEIR NEEDS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION AND OUR\nMAATHRUBOOMIYA\u201d. It created a lot of constitutional conflict in\nparliament is a result of this POLITICAL PLIGHT\u201d since 1994. With the SLPP\ngetting a 2\/3 majority government in parliament on August 5th., 2020, without\nhaving to make “deals” with the minority community parties, to\nmake the cut-off point in proportional representation from 5 to 12.5 per\ncent is only a matter of parliamentary procedure.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With\nthe media uncovering the corruption and deception of the Muslim political\nleaders in recent times and exposing these DECEPTIVE AND HOODWINKING\u201d Muslim\npoliticians and their operating beneficial gangs, the Muslim political culture\nhas begun to change. Today this VOTE BANK TRADING BY MINORITY MUSLIM\nAND TAMIL POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS\u201d has become a MENACE and a SICKNESS in the\ndemocratic political process of our country. THIS HAS TO STOP FORTHWITH FOR A\nHEALTHY POLITICAL PROCESS TO TAKE PLACE IN OUR COUNTRY and the RIGHT for the\nvoters to decide what their communities should do and the majority who are\nSINHALA VOTERS to decide what is best for the country they should do.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the\nMuslim Minority Community, the fact remains NOW, they do NOT wish to be\nrepresented by these MUNAAFIKK and DECEPTIVE MUSLIM POLITICIANS\u201d. THE SLMC AND\nACMC MP\u2019S SHOULD ALSO ACT ON THEIR OWN NOW and decide to support the new\ngovernment, Insha Allah. We Muslims should set an example like our predecessors\nwho TRUSTED\u201d the majority community in the wake of the British trying to delay\ngiving us independence in 1948. The role of Dr. T B Jayah becomes paramount at\nthis moment to recollect, because had he, or the Muslim community, sided with\nthe British at that time, granting of Independence to Ceylon would have been\npostponed. It is only because the minorities agreed that there was a United\nFront of Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims asking for Independence. But one man was\nagainst it. That was G G Ponnambalam who tried to extract his pound of flesh.\nHe said I will sign on the dotted line only if you agree to Fifty Fifty\u201d. That\nis 50% of the seats for the Sinhalese and 50% for the minorities. Only if you\nagree to that, he told D S Senanayake, will I support the call for\nindependence. It was at this point that Jayah rejected the\n\u2018fifty fifty\u2019 formula. He said he preferred to work in trust, to work in faith\nand goodwill with the majority community.<\/strong> Thereby\nT.B.Jayah totally undercut G G Ponnambalam\u2019s fifty fifty\u201d cry. That was the\ndeath knell of Fifty Fifty\u201d. If Jayah joined the fifty fifty\u201d cry at that time,\nIndependence would have been postponed. One has to remember that even the word\nSinhala was erased from the political lexicon. S W R D Bandaranaike ditched the\nidea of the Sinhala Maha Saba and he first joined the UNP and later set up the\nSri Lanka Freedom Party which too did not have racial connotations. Everybody\nfelt that communal parties were counter-productive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is time up\nthat a “NEW POLITICAL FORCE\u201d that will be honest and sincere that will\nproduce CLEAN\u201d and diligent Muslim Politicians to stand up and defend the\nMuslim Community politically and otherwise, especially from among the YOUTH has\nto RISE\u201d, and this NEW POLITICAL FORCE\u201d has to support the new government\nformed under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and PM Mahinda Rajapaksa and the\nmajority Sinhalese citizens notwithstanding the fact that the Tamils of the\nNorth and East and the Upcountry Tamils and all minorities should be equally\nrespected, politically, for a better Sri Lanka, God willing, Insha Allah.\nNearly 650,000 Muslims have voted the SLPP and casted their votes in support of\nGotabaya Rajapaksa, the New President of Sri Lanka and PM Mahinda Rajapaksa and\nthe SLPP\/SLFP Alliance this August, 2020 wholeheartedly, and to be part of the\nVICTORY OF THE SRI LANKANS in helping to form a 2\/3 majority government by\nthose who love our MAATHRUBOOMIYA\u201d, Insha Allah.  The new government has\nto help the Muslims create a “NEW POLITICAL CULTURE” by declaring the\nabove change in the new constitution or parliament at the earliest.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communications Researcher, SLFP\/SLPP Stalwart and Convener \u2013 The Muslim Voice\u201d, August 15th., 2020. The cut-off point in proportional representation has to change from 5% to 12.5% in the new constitution. POLITICAL PARTIES BASED ON COMMUNITY, RELIGION AND COMMUNAL BASIS HAS TO BE BANNED IN SRI LANKA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noor-nizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105567","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=105567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}