{"id":107427,"date":"2020-10-09T15:21:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T22:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=107427"},"modified":"2020-10-09T15:21:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T22:21:02","slug":"volkswagen-unity-for-19a-will-the-wheels-fall-apart-when-13a-dabated-is-it-fear-for-20a-or-fear-for-basil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/10\/09\/volkswagen-unity-for-19a-will-the-wheels-fall-apart-when-13a-dabated-is-it-fear-for-20a-or-fear-for-basil\/","title":{"rendered":"VOLKSWAGEN UNITY FOR 19A \u2013 WILL THE WHEELS FALL APART WHEN 13A DABATED? Is it fear for 20A or fear for BASIL?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Minister\nVasudeva Nanayakkara  (V) expressed views openly against Mr Gotabaya\nRajapakse seeking nomination for the Presidency.  His main argument at\nthat time was  that the democracy will be threatened if military men\noccupy top roles in the country.  Minister Wimal Weerawansa (W) was in the\nforefront to bring the military man for the top job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr\nV is the only surviving politician who contested the 1982 Presidential\nElection, scoring 17000 votes nationwide out of 6.5million valid votes. He\nis one of the MPs who maintain a very high record of attendance in the\nParliament.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

His\nvote base has reduced from 81000 to 67000 between 2015 and 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wimal\nWeerawansa\u2019s votes reduced from 313000 to 267000 between 2015  and 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nV and W who were on the cross roads on the issue of Gotabaya\u2019s rise to power,\nare now articulating a happy political marriage against 19A, thus ignoring\ntheir promises during the campaign.    In fact Minister Wimal\nWeerawangsa has gone overboard with written criticisms  of cabinet\ndecisions in public in breaking the cabinet solidarity, perhaps making a\ncardinal error of judgement. He continues enjoy the moral support of V in this\nfunny game of politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nnext episode will be 13A replacement.   The  wheels of\nVolkswagen is likely to fall apart  as Vasu support 13A and Wimal disagree\nwith the Provincial Councils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These\ntwo Ministers have not understood a key factor<\/strong>. \nDuring election time, when Bhuwenakabahu Building was apparently\ndestroyed  on the instructions of Kurunegala Chairperson, Wimal\nWeerawangsa said We were not put in power to act in this manner.  These\npoliticians must now understand the Change, and support the President\u201d. \nHas Wimal himself understood the Change now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wimal\nfear Basil Rajapakse.  Bringing Dr Sarath Weerasekera to Colombo from\nDigamadulla, had reduced Wimal\u2019s votes by 61000, within 3 months of\ncampaigning.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wimal\nsensed the danger few weeks before the election, hence he entered into a\nspecial partnership agreement with Udaya Gammanpila to share votes between the\ntwo.   Needless to say, Wimal was clearly threatened in his own home\ntown, since the arrival of Sarath Weerasekera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\nhave seen Ministers making hasty decisions, when they are punished by the\nLeadership.  During MEP government, Mr Philip Gunawardene, vehemently\nopposed the appointment of Vimala Wijewardene as Minister of Health<\/strong>. \nHis attacks against the government continued, though he has made valuable\ncontributions by bringing Paddy Lands Act,  Multi-Purpose Co-operative\nSystem (  now Peoples Bank),pioneered establishment of Ceylon Transport\nBoard, Ceylon Insurance Corporation, takeover of British Air Force Base in\nKatunayaka removal of  Naval Base in Trincomalee thus scrapping the last\nremaining  impediments of colonialism.  He pioneered Tyre, Steel and\nPlywood Corporation and laid the first foundation stone for the Steel Project\nat remote Oruwela.  All these major tasks were performed by Philip within\ntwo years.  Apart from being a Lawyer, Philip has obtained a PhD in\nAgriculture Economics from the University of Wisconsin. But his continuous\ndefiance in breaking cabinet solidarity compelled Mr S W R D Bandaranaike to\nchange his Ministerial portfolio.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philip\nleft the cabinet with his colleagues William Silva.  His departure\nhelped conspirators to kill Mr Bandaranaike just few months after Philip left\nthe Cabinet.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But\nWimal Weerawangsa is not Philip Gunawardene. <\/strong> Wimal has\nso far no<\/strong>t made any significant  identifiable contribution<\/strong>\nthrough the portfolios held by him, though he is a vibrant  popular\nspeaker  Bandaranaike was carried into power by Philip Gunawardene. \nBut  Mahinda Rajapakse was not carried into power by Wimal Weerawangsa, in\nfact Wimal is fortunate that he has been given a high powered role as \nMinister of Industries to embark on major capital investment projects in Sri\nLanka to bring about an industrial revolution.  He need to improve his\n negotiating skills to face  and win  major project contracts\nwith foreigners and local entrepreneurs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nrise to power of Mahinda, Gota, Basil   or anyone else will be at the\nmercy of general public.  The fall from power of any politician will also\nbe at the mercy of general public.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once\nyou are put in power, the voters are looking at your set of SKILLS, THE\n ABILITY TO WORK WITH OTHERS, but  not powerful VOCABULARY!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara  (V) expressed views openly against Mr Gotabaya Rajapakse seeking nomination for the Presidency.  His main argument at that time was  that the democracy will be threatened if military men occupy top roles in the country.  Minister Wimal Weerawansa (W) was in the forefront to bring the military […]<\/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-107427","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\/107427","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=107427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}