{"id":111845,"date":"2021-02-19T17:16:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111845"},"modified":"2021-02-19T17:16:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:16:57","slug":"there-may-be-negative-impact-operating-an-office-of-bjp-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/19\/there-may-be-negative-impact-operating-an-office-of-bjp-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"THERE MAY BE NEGATIVE IMPACT OPERATING AN OFFICE OF BJP IN SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Unconfirmed\nreports from India indicated that some people have expressed concern about the\nnews that the BJP is willing to be opened a branch in Sri Lanka, and how it\nimpacts politics in Sri Lanka may be an unexpected change of the nature of\npolitical issues in Sri Lanka, and many people have different points of view\nabout the decision of the Bharathiya Janatha Party in India. The operating BJP\nin Sri Lanka might be a problem for various community groups in Sri Lanka.  The opening of a branch office in other\ncountries may be considered a democratic opportunity by many Western countries.\nIt is a normal adventure as in the UK, the USA, Canada, and other countries\nwhere opened branch offices of political parties of other countries. For\nexample, some registered political parties in Sri Lanka maintain branch offices\nin the UK.  The way of operation usually\nsubject to the country\u2019s intelligence operations and legal provisions, and if\nthe political party believes in democracy and its fundamental process is based\non democratic principles it may not be a matter to agitate against such a\ndecision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\nis the legal aspect in Sri Lanka regarding the opening of an office of\nBJP?  The decision of BJP is subject to\nthe law of Sri Lanka and India cannot violate the law like Mr.Rajiv Gandi did\npawing dhal to Jaffna. If any organization wants to do politics in Sri Lanka it\nneeds political and legal clearance from Sri Lanka, as well as India. Such a\ndecision should be under the legal provisions (constitutional, legislative, and\njudge-made) of Sri Lanka. The Commissioner of Election has legal authority and\nhas power to indicates if any political party wants to participate in an\nelection to elect representatives it needs legal clearance in which the process\nneeds to complete several conditions. For example, Mr.Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who\nwas an American citizen, had to get legal clearance before a contest in the\npresidential election held in 2019. If BJP can accomplish such conditions it might\nbe able to register as a political party to operate in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthe meantime, the Commissioner of Election has expressed his opinion that BJP\ncannot do and Nepal has rejected the BJP intention, the unconfirmed news\nreported about the BJP plan has published in print media in the region. News in\nthe Indian sub-continent is covered with the taste of sweet and savor, and this\nnews also may an exaggeration of manipulated opinion. People of Sri Lanka know\nthat a crow did vomit on a person who was resting under a tree, it may\npublicize as thousand of crows were vomiting on the man. This is how\nexaggerating a small incident in the Indian sub-continent.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nmost rigid condition for BJP is finding members who actively willing to\nparticipate in the political process. Many Sri Lanka individuals without ethnic\ndifferences participate in politics to gain personal advantages. India has\ncompetitive politics and other political parties than BJP may willing to open\nbranches in Sri Lanka if it works well.  As people fully aware, BJP is not a political\nparty that has been operating since the era of the State Council in Sri Lanka,\nand if it is a truth that BJP wants to engage in active politics in Sri Lanka\nit should begin the process now. During the July riots in 1983, Mrs. Indira\nGandi expressed that India concerns on issues of the Tamil Community in Sri\nLanka as this community has links to South Indian Tamils. Sinhala, Tamil, and\nMuslim communities in Sri Lanka have links to India not only the basis of the\nbeginning of such communities but also the communities that share the Indian\ncultural heritage and values. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\nis the constitution of the BJP and what are the conditions to be a member of\nthe BJP are other questions associate with the main question  Sinhala people have no idea about these\npoints. The BJP would have investigated these issues before expressed its\nwillingness to operate or participate in politics, and my view is BJP wants to\nbe an unofficial organization to influence politics in Sri Lanka. The major\nreason is, it may be a factor to attract Tamilnadu voters\u2019 supports in the next\nelection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indian\npolitical parties had been influenced in Sri Lanka since before independence\nand to what extend BJP has been an agency in Sri Lanka needed considering many\ndocuments.  BJP was a part of the\nCongress Party until Mr. Lal Bahadul Sastri\u2019s death, and when Mrs. Indira Gandi\nbecame the Chairperson of the Congress Party BJP germinated Indian soil\nencompassing conservative politicians in India and SLFP in Sri Lanka associated\nwith the Congress Party and UNP indirectly associated with BJP.  When Mr.Moraji Desai visited Sri Lanka in the\nearly 1970s, the personal conversation between Mr.Moraji Desai and Mr.J.R.\nJayawardane had gone to ears of the Indira Gandi who reacted to the\nconversation was a public secret in Sri Lanka, and the origin of LTTE was\ncontributed by this story, was gossip in Sri Lanka.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nBJP and the congress party working together many positive policy decisions were\nmade, the most remarkable action was the nationalization of foreign banks in\nIndia. Regarding foreign policy, India aligned with the Soviet Union at that\ntime, and India also played a police role in the Indian ocean, and the transfer\nof power from Congress to BJP changed the Indian policy toward Sri Lanka. The\nfundamental friendship between India and Sri Lanka has not been changed despite\nthe savor experience encountered during the past several decades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why\nBJP wants to engage in politics in Sri Lanka? It is a broader question that\nneeds to analyze from different points of view. When Mr.S.Thondaman was doing\npolitics he had a strong association with Indian politics. Political influence\nand relationship between Indian and Sri Lanka had been at different levels and late\nprofessor Paranavithana indicated that King Vijayabahu, who initiated the\nPolonnaruva kingdom associated with Kalinga Desh in India, and King Parakrama\nBahu was a son of Princes Ratnavali and his father was an Indian Prince and\nKing Nissanka Malla was a Son-in-Law of King Parakrama Bahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nrelationship between India and Sri Lanka generated advantages as well as\ndisadvantages to Sri Lanka.  The style of\nBJP looking at Sri Lanka seems to be varied and the biggest advantage of BJP is\nthat it is against dividing Sri Lanka and the use of Sri Lanka as a base to\ncreate problems in India. Norway and other European countries had a different\nopinion and  Mr.Rohana Wijeweera stated\nin the 1970s that Ms. Jean Kerk Patrick stated in Trincomalee that the US had\nan intention to divide India into four parts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

India\nmassively influenced Tamil Political Parties not only to Mr.Thondaman\u2019s party\nbut also to other Tamil parties in North and East. The congress party influenced\nSinhala political parties.  The\nprovincial council system introduced in the late 1980s was a clear reflection\nthat Indian attitudes and influences are working in Sri Lanka.  India wants to use foreign aids to make\npolitical influences on Sri Lanka, however, it has no economic power to pour a\nmassive sum of foreign money in Sri Lanka as in the way China is doing.        <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another\nsignificant point is if China wants to open a branch of the Chinese Communist Party\nin line with BJP, the government of Sri Lanka should allow it if it opens to\nBJP for playing politics in Sri Lanka. Politics in the Indian region is a\ncomplicated mechanism that many people have difficulty to understanding and\nmany times playing politics is disgusted matter to many people. BJP has been\nplaying politics in Sri Lanka since the 1970s and the best example was the\npresidential election in 2015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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