{"id":122054,"date":"2022-01-11T17:26:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122054"},"modified":"2022-01-11T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:26:13","slug":"be-patriotic-not-hysteric-to-both-politicians-and-media-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/11\/be-patriotic-not-hysteric-to-both-politicians-and-media-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Patriotic Not Hysteric – To Both Politicians and Media in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington NZ<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

 Dear\nEditor , Please\nfind below my response on listening to an interview given by the exUNP, now SJB\n, finance spokesperson on his hysterical advocation of joining the world\u201d\nseemingly oblivious to all the efforts of the past two years of inviting\nforeign investment ,with each visiting heads to SL ,and with each interaction\nwith every foreign head by SL\u2019s  head of state & the improvement in\nconditions for foreign investment  with legislation to make it a “one\nstop shop<\/strong>\u201d with the Colombo Port City Commissioning bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has\nhe short term memory loss ( sure sign of early dementia) , that it was he and\nhis band of never achieved anything<\/strong>\u201d colleagues who tried to stall\n it asking what is the hurry<\/strong>\u201d. Has he also got amnesia  for\nhow the likes of him raised bogeys like making SL a Chinese Colony”\nespecially with regard to the appointees to CPC\u2019s management commission, which\nwhen appointed was devoid of a single Chinese face but headed by a lawyer who\ndefended a prominent accused in the Central Bank Robbery with well known family\nconnections to the UNP. So much for some of his earlier cautions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nis also testimony to the quality of SL media that, these questions were never\nraised with those expressing these concerns  even more than eight months\nafter they were raised , leaving it to me from thousands of miles away to do\nso. It would appear to me that the SL media sees it as it\u2019s obligation to\nquestion every action or word of the govt but not those of the opposition\nleaving it to them to exploit the media to vent all their baseless allegations\nand insinuations to thwart SL\u2019s recovery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now\nmy response to the interview in question , possibly 9th or 10th Jan \u201822<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nJust don\u2019t understand this man . Is he honest or deliberately misleading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This govt has made foreign investment a one stop shop for Colombo \u00a0port city and Hambantota manufacturing zone and has been encouraging foreign investment with every overseas visit and and overseas visitor encouraging successfully & developing neglected local industry and new industry, Tyre, motor car, Yatch building ( all the yatchs visible in the CPC Marina r locally made) ship building etc. ref Ada Derana Big Focus 9\/1\/21

This man was in power for four and a half years and did not do even a smidgen of what he is advocating now . Instead all they did was run the economy to ground, robbed \u00a0the centra bank not once but twice and turned a blind eye on the looming Easter Sunday disaster. In the mean while these paragons of virtue looked on helplessly \u00a0while their two leaders fought with each other like the double heads of a dragon .!

The govt is trying to correct the consequences of these crimes compounded by those of COvid with a monumentally successful COvid vaccination drive when COvid is consuming the rest of the world . They are \u00a0just getting on top of things and trying to build up SL peoples self belief, confidence and resolve and this guy & those like him r only trying to break the resolve of the people to join in the journey. Instead they seek to drive them into despondency ably assisted by sections of rating driven and well oiled media.

Don\u2019t do tha<\/strong>t .it is traitorous! R u DB ( deaf and blind ) not to see what is happening around U

Can\u2019t u see that the govt is attempting to restructure loans and obtain buffers of Forex till remittances and tourism improves as is happening now \u00a0and that too without being hostage to IMF conditions as you advocated . This would have led the govt to be even more unpopular, no doubt much to your delight.

I acknowledged that you can take credit for the only positive smidgen of that disastrous AYAHAPALANA regime , viz the national ambulance service.<\/strong>

Don\u2019t wreck that record by playing to the gallery and to sections of rating driven & well oiled by anti national forces media, that r even worse than the gallery , trying to wreck SL’s \u2018fledgling recovery..

Instead contribute to it <\/strong>by using your interviews to encourage potential international investors of the potential for investing in SL , a few nautical miles off the busiest sea lane in the world <\/strong>so using the easiest access to the East and West and the one stop shop\u201d ease of investing in SL <\/strong>now. Then the world would be the Oyster in their hands \u00a0for their manufacturings .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then you will have a stake in SL\u2019s recovery which will ease things for you too if you iinherit it some day.

Be Patriotic not Hysteric<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington NZ

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Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington NZ  Dear Editor , Please find below my response on listening to an interview given by the exUNP, now SJB , finance spokesperson on his hysterical advocation of joining the world\u201d seemingly oblivious to all the efforts of the past two years of inviting foreign investment ,with each visiting heads to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122054","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=122054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}