{"id":120712,"date":"2021-11-28T17:15:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T00:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120712"},"modified":"2021-11-28T17:15:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T00:15:23","slug":"sri-lanka-needs-a-united-administration-without-political-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/28\/sri-lanka-needs-a-united-administration-without-political-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"SRI LANKA NEEDS A UNITED ADMINISTRATION WITHOUT POLITICAL PARTIES"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Political\nparties emanated with a variety of policies for transforming political\nadministration from dominion or totalitarianism to a parliament rule as a\nsymbol of democracy. A parliament rule comprises representatives of people who\nmay be elected by the votes of the people. Democracy is a complicated word with\ndifferent applications.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Party\npolitics in Sri Lanka have done many harmful activities to the country than innovating\ngood policies for the benefit of the people. It is the reality of Sri Lanka,\nbut in many countries, parliaments have braced the development and supported\nthe role of political parties. It needs to rethink the role of political\nparties in Sri Lanka considering harms done to the community. To maintain democracy,\ndoes it need political parties? Democracy in Old Greece maintained without\npolitical parties and democratic way. If people think they want to see the\ncountry as an economically developed nation, are political parties an essential\nrequirement?  It needs a broader\nevaluation on whether political parties have been contributed to the progress\nof the country or they contributed to destroying the opportunities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nhistory of political parties goes back centuries and during the long history,\nmany traditions and values have been added to political parties in many\ncountries and political parties worked together in many instances when a\ncountry needed the unity of people. However, political parties in Sri Lanka\nhave been working in a misguided policy framework and aimed to achieve a saying\nthat the Queens\u2019 opposition would be the alternate government. For example, in\nthe last stage of LTTE war the unity was essential condition but political\nparties played politics at that stage. The idea of alternative government was a\npopular view of Sir Ivor Jennings. Since independence in 1948, it has been\nproved that party politics in the country has created many problems in the\ncountry and many development projects either halted or eliminated.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ntraditions and values of political parties are based on the philosophy of\noriginators and when people are practically concerned with the policies of the\nparty providing benefits to people, the usual practice was changing the policy\nstructure of the party and it was done by a joint effort of members. The main\nquestion regarding Sri Lanka is that has been the political party system\ncritical for a long time supporting for the achieving the dream of people? The\nanswer is neither the objectives of originators of political parties have been\nachieved by the operating of political parties in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If\npeople want to convert the country to a developed nation, the view of the\ncommon people is to work unitedly without political differences in parties.\nDespite uniting people or working together political parties are a way of\ndividing people. Many people of Sri Lanka consider that political parties have\nnot worked to convert the country to a developed nation because they have been\nworked like a virus that spread and suffers people in society. It is vicious\nthan the covid 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nis observable in many democratic countries that the expected and visible changes\nhave been incurred by the result of operating political parties, and the\nexperience in Sri Lanka shows the party politics supported to generate benefits\nto so-called lower grade people until 1956, now it could evaluate that\npolitical parties have been creating and promoting politics that support to\nfamilies instead of society.  Political\nparties are not ready to honestly talk about the truth and make a political\nfield without parties. In fact, political parties are screens that are cover\ncorruptions of powerful individuals of parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\nthe Sri Lankan ambassador to India recently stated the wealth production will\nbe the way to achieve the developed status and it should not be a situation\nthat creates controversy in the country. What is the meaning of wealth\nproduction? It is a process that everybody in the country should take part in\nthe wealth production process and the participation of each person without\ndifferences is vital to achieving the purpose. It is a capitalist system that\ncontradicts the politics of the party system in a democratic framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\npolitical parties in the country have been promoting negative attitudes against\nwealth production and promoted attitudes among people resisting wealth\nproduction and cultivated a vicious psycho against the process of wealth\nproduction. Since the second decade of the 19th century, the beginning\npolitical parties adopted a system of protesting, and it shows that political\nparties have become disgusting without changes in society as they preached to\npeople. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nother negative aspect of political parties is they try to claim ownership of\nvarious activities completed in the country. For example, the war victory\nagainst LTTE, the nationalization of private enterprises, and many activities\nare claimed political parties ignoring that funds for the changes invested from\nthe government that are belong to public. In many countries, before implementing\nmany activities, they were policies of political parties, and after the\nimplementation, they become national activities, but in Sri Lanka, political\nparties claim every activity owned by them. The mentality of political party\nleaders is always wrong, and the hidden intention is to be highlighted all\ngovernment work in a society in party leaders\u2019 name rather than working to\nachieve policy objectives and many role players in political parties in Sri\nLanka were crooks or mentally affected people or manipulators of issues.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\nare many limits to the development and growth of the country, and political\nparties don\u2019t talk about the limits and work to attenuate issues. Although the\nlimits are constraints to development, political parties attempt to convince\nthe public that political parties could do everything that people expect, but\nno political party has developed workable policies to develop the country and\nthe operational pattern of political parties showed that there were individuals\nwho have a hidden agenda rather than working within limits. After independence,\nit showed that hidden agenda was corruption and making money giving publicity\nfor government work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many\npolitical parties have no democracy in party management and the operational\npattern shows that few persons in parties work to achieve hidden agendas that\nare massively related to personal wealth making by corrupt practices. For\nexample, accelerated Mahaweli Project, the Greater Colombo Economic Zone were\nused to make money for politicians. In this situation, what is the use of\npolitical parties to cheat people or the country? During the reign of Kings and\nQueens, cheating people was not an aim of political leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nvisible atrocious nature of the history of political parties in Sri Lanka was\nthe beginning of parties with a group of people who have common values and\naims, but later, the political parties became enhancing family assets ignoring\nthe party objectives. All Sinhala, Tamil, and Muslim political parties later\nbecame enlarge family assets, UNP, SLFP, TC, FP, MC, and SLPJP became family\nassets, and the ownership of family ligature became a division of the country.\nThe Pandora discovery indicates that how did Mr Paskaraslingam misused the office\nand party relationship to undue enrichment. In other countries, this situation is\nreflected, but the strong organizational structure of the political parties\nsuch as in the USA, UK, Japan, and Canada forced them to abandon the family ligature.\nWhy the family gentry is abandoned, it is no other reason, than achieving undue\nenrichment for families that worked to begin political parties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthis situation, Sri Lanka needs to unite against party-based politics and develop\ncommon policies that are acceptable to people without racial, religious, and\ncaste dictions. Before the 1970 election, left political parties with SLFP\ndeveloped a common program of policies, however, it was not a success because UNP\nwas out of the common program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All\norganizations that are not related to political parties need to press political\nparties to dissolve parties and to develop a common program. It shouldn\u2019t be\nhidden political parties such as JVP and other political parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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