{"id":110161,"date":"2020-12-28T16:41:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T23:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110161"},"modified":"2020-12-28T16:41:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T23:41:32","slug":"a-big-bouquet-of-thanks-to-the-president-and-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/28\/a-big-bouquet-of-thanks-to-the-president-and-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"A BIG BOUQUET OF THANKS TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE GOVERNMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>RANJITH SOYSA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The President and the government stood\nfirm in protecting the national sovereignty and the rights of the people when\ndealing with the MCC issue. Despite the tempter in the form of $480 million\ninvolved in the deal the President and the government were able to compare the\nultimate cost to the nation by analysing the pluses and the minuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main issue which was the subject of the\ndiscussion among the critics of the MCC was that it will pave for a land grab\nand destroy the small land holding peasantry of the country. MCC land project was\nrightly considered as trap in enticing the small land holders to sell their\nlands to pay off their debts to multi-national companies so that the land will\nbe an efficient factor of production. MCC proposed the removal of the existing\nland laws of the country such as 50-acre limit for private land ownership.\nFurther, the districts coming under the proposed MCC compact were rich in\nminerals and the MCC was aiming to open the door for exploitation of these\nresources by the foreign companies <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MCC was thus considered not as poverty\nreduction project but as a program in increasing the poverty levels of Sri\nLankans.&nbsp; The previous Yahapalaya\ngovernment had entered into several agreements in relation to the MCC. In October\n2018, the negotiations regarding the compact were conducted by the leading\nCabinet members and the AG with the officials of the MCC. The Cabinet of\nMinisters gave the approval for final agreement on 29.10 2019,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lankan people were saved at the last\nminute when the President Gotbaya Rajapakse was elected in 2019 and he and the\ngovernment resolutely held back the tempter of US $480 million saving the\ncountry of neo-liberal destruction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANJITH SOYSA The President and the government stood firm in protecting the national sovereignty and the rights of the people when dealing with the MCC issue. Despite the tempter in the form of $480 million involved in the deal the President and the government were able to compare the ultimate cost to the nation by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranjith-soysa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110161","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=110161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}