{"id":113492,"date":"2021-04-13T16:09:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T23:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113492"},"modified":"2021-04-13T16:09:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T23:09:24","slug":"sajith-premadasa-the-most-undemocratic-and-unwise-parliamentary-opposition-leader-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/13\/sajith-premadasa-the-most-undemocratic-and-unwise-parliamentary-opposition-leader-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajith Premadasa the most undemocratic and unwise Parliamentary Opposition Leader of the World."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charles S.Perera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Sajith\nPremadasa contested the Presidential election from the UNP led coalition of\npolitical parties. The Yahapalanaya Government was then in place with a \nmajority. When Sajith Premadasa  was defeated at the polls and \nGotabhaya Rajapaksa won the Presidential election with 69 lakh of popular\nvotes, Sajith Premadasa if he  was a  wise man,   should have suggested\ndissolving the Yahapalanaya government inorder to allow the new President\nGotabhaya Rajapaksa to form a caretaker government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But\nSajith Premadasa was undemocratic, full of anger and jealousy that he lost.\nTherefore  he took the opportunity to  make it difficult for the newly\nelected  President to implement his manifesto which had been accepted by a\nmajority of the people of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By allowing the newly elected President  Gotabaya Rajapaksa\nto form a caretaker government  and implement  his political\nmanifesto Saubhaagye Dakma\u201d-Vision of Prosperity, Sajith Premadasa would have\nrespected both the  people of the country who  had accepted  the\nSaubhaagye Dakma\u201d,  and the democratic tradition of accepting Gotabhaya\nRajapaksha as his President, as much  of the people of Sri Lanka.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When \nRanil Wickramasinghe after his Yahapalanaya  political debacle, was kicked\nout by his UNP voters from his political home ground , the UNP block voters had\nnowhere to turn to, therefore held onto the only straw thrown at them for bad\nor for worse. That straw was Sajith Premadasa who was parading with his Samagi\nJana Balavegaya having also been kicked out by the UNP and its HeadQuarters\nthe  Sirikotha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sajith\nPremadasa and his SamagiJana  Balavegaya  keep boasting as a great\naccomplishment   that Samagi Jana balavegaya despite being a new Political\nparty secured 54 parliamentary seats at the General Election. There was nothing\nto blow trumpets as it was only the UNP block vote that  came to \nSamagi Jana Balavegaya. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nUNP block vote  may not have come to Samagi Jana Balavegaya of Sajith\nPremadasa  with any ease of mind, as the previous Presidential election\ncampaign  of Sajith Premadasa was the most ridiculous and sickening \nelection campaign ever.  Sajith kept ranting about his dynamos, his\nfather\u2019s DNA running in his blood, his holy mouth, his wish to visit homes\nincognito  at night to see through windows how the people live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever\npolitical party Sajith leads, he and his companions cannot be separated from\nthe UNP which raised them to become politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now\nas the Leader of the Opposition, Sajith Premadasa\u2019s  sickening style of\naddressing the Parliament flaunting his English manners  dropping English\nwords into his Sinhala phrases, trying to look down upon the Speaker of the\nParliament quoting Churchill , Gandhi and others, always criticising the\ngovernment  for everything, showing himself as a know all pandit\neven  recommending  medicine for Covid 19, and even leading\nmanifestations against the government, makes him  certainly the most\nundemocratic opposition leader of any parliament in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sajith\nPremadasa the opposition leader has no control of himself  most of the\ntime showing his  ignorance of parliamentary procedure ignoring the\nsubject under discussion to make a statement which  has no relevance to\nthe subject, and continues to speak when the Speaker asks him to sit\ndown.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nprinciple characteristic of a democratic Opposition Leader of a\nParliament  is to respect the rulings of the Speaker of the House. Sajith\nPremadasa is no respecter of parliamentary traditions  and behaves\nunfittingly in the Parliament. He is a poor example  for his indisciplined\nmembers of the opposition, to  make them behave and speak  as\nrespectable Parliamentarians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sajith\u2019s followers such as  Sarath Fonseka,  Harin\nFernando, Hesha Vithanage, Nalin Bandara, Hector Appuhamy, Chaminda Wijesiri,\nAsoka Abeysinghe, Alawathuvala, Mujubi Rahman, Manusha Nanayakkara , Kavinda\nNanayakkara, Ranjan Ramanayake,  are not different from Sajith Premadasa.\nThey are empty minded and hollow. They cover up their incompetence by \nblaring out threats, shouting insults  and making  personal attacks\nat  the  members of the Government and speak disrespectfully of the\nPresident and the Prime Minister. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent unpleasant spectacle presented by Sarath Fonseka showed\nclearly what happens when persons unsuitable to be politicians  are\nelected to Parliament.  Sarath Fonseka may have been a good military\nstrategist, but he is certainly a bad politician. He cannot claim to have won\nthe war against the terrorists  because he was only a part of the winning\nteam. The winning of  the war was a coordinated effort of all Armed\nForces-Army, Navy, Air Force, Police; Intelligence Units, and above all a\ndetermined Government  standing  firmly behind the Armed Forces in\ntheir  fight to eliminate  terrorism. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sajith\nPremadasa and his Opposition Parliamentarians are a poor spectacle wherever\nthey are seen.  When you see them in TV debates  you know what they\nare going to say, because they tell the same thing all the time. A serious\ndebate for them is a comic relief. They laugh and make irrelevant remarks, ask\nstupid questions to  destabilise the speakers from the government. \nThey demonstrate their political incompetence as members of the Yahaplanaya\ngovernment which ruined Sri Lanka for four and a  half years , and\nwill  even  continue the same destructive yahapalanaya saga all over\nagain if they were ever to come to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harin\nFernando, is responsible to a great extent for the Easter April massacres \nin Churches, as he was warned by his father that a bomb was going to blast in a\nChurch on that Easter Sunday, and asked him not to attend the Church  that\nday.. He listened to his father and kept  away from the Church, but \ndid not inform  even the Pastor of that Church about the warning that his\nfather gave him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is strange that Harin Fernando\u2019s father died later but no one\nbothered to inquire how he had come to know of the scheduled bomb blast. Was\nhis death somehow connected to the Easter Bomb blast ?  These questions\nhave not been asked though hue and a cry is being made to arrest the man behind\nthe massacre. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\nVenerable  Galaboda Atte Gnaanasaara thero said,  the brain behind\nSaharan was the Muslim Extremist teachings and as long as this extremist Muslim\nteachings are allowed to flourish,  there will be no end of Muslim\nextremeists willing to sactrifice themselves to destroy Churches, Buddhist\nshrines, and statues or even Hotels to kill non believers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was wrong to have banned Budu Bala Sena because it only pointed\nat the Muslim extremism  from where the danger comes from,  but\nnever  acted irresponsibly to condemn the Muslims as a wh<\/strong>ole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sajith\nPremadasa should discipline his parliamentarians as the President of Sri Lanka\nhas been elected by a majority of the people of the country and once elected he\nbecomes everyone’s President that includes Sajith Premadasa the Leader of the\nOpposition. They should therefore have the decency to address the President of\nSri Lanka respectfully. In parliamentary debates with the members of the\nGovernment  , the Ministers may be criticised for political actions they\nhave taken with which the opposition does not agree. But that should not be\nmade an occasion to make personal attacks  and speak demeaningly of the\nPresident and the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sajith\nPremadasa is an unwise politician. Though he tries to take credit from the fact\nthat he is the son of Ranasinghe Premadasa, the difference between the father\nand son is evident. Ranasinghe Premadasa had  a modest beginning and had\nan understanding of the poor people. Sajith did not have that experience and in\ntrying  to be like his father he becomes pretentious and pompous. \nRanasinghe Premadasa is also not a President about whom the people of Sri Lanka\nhave good memories. Sajith Premadasa cannot therefore be that proud of being\nthe son of his father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sajith \nhas no ideas of his own and tries to copy the President Gotabhy Rajapakse.\nDuring the Presidential elections he was delaying the presentation of his\nelection manifesto awaiting the Presidential Candidate Gotabhaya Rajapakse to\npresent his Election manifesto. When President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa started his\nvisit to villages-\u201dGamanga samaga sangvaadaya<\/strong>\u201d to meet and speak to the\npeople and personally implement the demands of the people, Sajith Premadas also\nstarted visiting villages. He has made that an occasion to carry on an election\ncampaign and criticise the government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\nforgets that he is only the Leader of the Opposition and wants to do the work\nof the President. He wants to bring down stranded Sri Lankans from abroad and\nhouse them in his own confinement Centres. He will set up hospitals  !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From\nthe beginning Sajith Premadazsa  had been acting not as a leader of the\nOpposition but like a man having a vendetta against the President Gotabaya\nRajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is time that Sajith Premadasa stops his comic political drama\nand become a serious politician who respects the  majority of the people\nwho voted for  Gotabaya Rajapaksa for his Political Manifesto Saubhagye\nDakma\u2019  which  the President is implementing despite all the\ndifficulties he has to face.  In democracy the Opposition in parliament is\nof the political party which would form  the next Government. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore  It should act respectfully and await their time to\nspeak to the people in a political campaign, and point out the faults of the\ngovernment and present their own political Manifesto for the people to accept\nor reject it.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charles S.Perera\u00a0 Sajith Premadasa contested the Presidential election from the UNP led coalition of political parties. The Yahapalanaya Government was then in place with a  majority. When Sajith Premadasa  was defeated at the polls and  Gotabhaya Rajapaksa won the Presidential election with 69 lakh of popular votes, Sajith Premadasa if he  was a  wise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113492","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=113492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}