{"id":108330,"date":"2020-11-04T17:14:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T00:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=108330"},"modified":"2020-11-04T17:14:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T00:14:47","slug":"basil-rajapaksa-to-the-forefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/11\/04\/basil-rajapaksa-to-the-forefront\/","title":{"rendered":"Basil Rajapaksa to the forefront"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garvin Karunaratne former G.A.Matara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Some are aghast at the news trickling in that Basil Rajapaksa is\nto be anointed with a Ministerial position.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when one thinks of things actually done, Basil Rajapaksa\nstands out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was no other than Basil that created a political party from\nscratch when both Chandrika and Maithripala were holding on to the SLFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Again earlier when his brothers Gotabhaya and Mahinda had\nwon the war, there was a mass of some three hundred thousand refugees- Tamil\npeople moved from their hearth and homes, dragged at gun point as a human\nshield by the LTTE when their forces were defeated and pushed from Batticaloa\nin the South and Mannar and Vavuniya  to the shores of Mullativu. It was\nthen Basil that took charge of finding temporary accomodation for them, finding\ntheir homes and putting them back.  Go to other parts of the world and one\ncan find refugees in tents without finding their roots for decades despite\nattempts by the prestigious United Nation attempts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take what is happening right now- who directs the major operation\nto provide food etc to people in their thousands, confined to the curfew areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am certain that all these were difficult tasks.  These\nwords come from a son of Mother Lanka who has experience in attending to\ndifficult tasks. I know what it takes to do something worthwhile.  It was\nI that designed and established the Youth Self Employment Programme in\nBangladesh, starting from scratch, without any funds, scraping the barrel for\nsavings in budgets to implement a new programme that has today stood the test\nof time- three million youths guided to be self employed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The achievements of Basil Rajapaksa detailed above, to me, show\nhim as a person of steel that can tackle our problems, a person who cannot be\nderailed. Our Motherland needs him. I am fairly certain that our Motherland\nwill eventually grab him back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Good Luck dear sir,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May I wish him luck and I am certain that Sri Lanka’s economy will\nfind a major contribution from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garvin Karunaratne<\/p>\n\n\n\n

former G.A.Matara<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3\/11\/2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Garvin Karunaratne former G.A.Matara Some are aghast at the news trickling in that Basil Rajapaksa is to be anointed with a Ministerial position.   But when one thinks of things actually done, Basil Rajapaksa stands out.  It was no other than Basil that created a political party from scratch when both Chandrika and Maithripala were holding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-garvin-karunaratne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108330","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=108330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}