{"id":40476,"date":"2015-01-01T16:18:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T22:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40476"},"modified":"2015-01-01T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T15:55:13","slug":"why-we-should-vote-for-the-president-mahinda-rajapakse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/01\/why-we-should-vote-for-the-president-mahinda-rajapakse\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we should vote for the President MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE\u00a0?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Some say they would vote for the President Mahinda Rajapakse as there is no alternative.\u00a0 That however should not be the reason why we should vote for the President Mahinda Rajapakse. Because there is no alternative to\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapakse, as he is the only man worthy of holding the reins of Executive Presidency.<\/p>\n

Others say that the opposition has not been able to present a candidate comparatively above or in level with the profile and the character of the\u00a0 President.\u00a0 What ever the critics say about the President Mahinda Rajapakse,\u00a0 the opposition candidate Maitripala Sirisena has not the personality, charisma, and the intellectual capacity of the President Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

President Mahinda Rajapakse is a captivating personality.\u00a0 His smile could disarm the worst of enemies. He speaks sense and of things practically possible to do,\u00a0 though some of what he has done every one thought was practically impossible . He is capable of handling any problem with extremely calm confidence.\u00a0 He does not get unnecessarily flustered or confused in the worst of circumstances.\u00a0 He takes time to think over and finally takes a decision acceptable to wrangling\u00a0 parties.<\/p>\n

He is absolutely clean. Most of what others complain of him are made up or imagined. He is too kind to turn away people who are close to him despite their impossible character that bring disrepute to him. Mervyn or Duminda\u00a0 he could have easily turned them away\u00a0 but he tolerates them despite the annoyance they cause to him, as he is a great human being with a\u00a0 kind heart, who keeps them with him to stop them from\u00a0 falling into bad ways. That is his nature. Should \u00a0these matters cloud his absolute sincerity and political wisdom to do exactly \u00a0what is good for the country and the people ?<\/p>\n

What \u00a0wrongs has the President Mahinda Rajapakse done and what are his faults\u00a0 if any for the people to vote for another whose abilities have not\u00a0 been tested, and who is not qualified in any way \u00a0to make a difference if elected ?<\/p>\n

If there is to be a difference in the election of the rival candidate-Maitripala Sirisena, he should have a political philosophy which is remarkably superior to that of Mahinda Rajapakse. If he has\u00a0 any political wisdomat all he would not have allowed himself to be manipulated\u00a0 by political morons like Ranil Wickramasinghe and Chandrika.<\/p>\n

President Mahinda Rajapakse has a collective of political parties in UPFA to support him in his election campaign and to carry out the proposals in the\u00a0 election manifesto- Mahinda Chintanaya after his election.\u00a0 But can we say the same of Maitripala Sirisena the opposition candidate ? Having had no political vision of his own he had got his election manifesto to be written by Champika Ranawaka.<\/p>\n

Strangely Champika now supports the sleazy Rauf Hakim and defends him as a man who has no ulterior motive in joining the opposition in support of Maitripala Sirirsena.\u00a0 Ranil Wickramasinghe and Chandrika have\u00a0 their own\u00a0 motives for dragging in Maitripala Sirisena to be the opposition candidate .\u00a0 They are in fact helping themselves in pretending to help Maitripala Sirisena to win the election.<\/p>\n

Maitripala Sirisena thinks that Tamil National Alliance and Rauf Hakeem are honest politicians who supports him for his good looks\u201d and they have no ulterior motives.\u00a0 Rauf Hakeem and\u00a0 Sampanthan of TNA may fool\u00a0 Maitripala Sirisena, but they cannot fool the\u00a0 Sri Lanka voters.\u00a0 They- the voters, will understand that a vote for Maitripala Sirisena who is supported by TNA and Rauf Hakeem of SLMC, is a vote to divide Sri Lanka\u00a0 amoung the \u00a0Tamils of the TNA and \u00a0\u00a0the Muslims of Rauf Hakeem and SLMC.<\/p>\n

The way to stop this disaster\u00a0 is to vote for the President Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

Mahinda Rajapakse\u00a0 when he assumed the Presidency in 2005 assured the people that he will never allow Sri Lanka to be divided.\u00a0 He kept his word and brought the country under one flag and initiated under very difficult circumstance with constant barriers put before him by the TNA, a process of reconciliation of the Communities.\u00a0 He would have succeeded in that if the\u00a0 TNA had stopped its disruptive manoeuvres to mislead the Tamil people assuring them the setting up of\u00a0 a separate Eelam State.<\/p>\n

That disruptive element- the TNA is now with the opposition candidate who has signed an agreement to set up an all Tamil Province in the North.\u00a0 This\u00a0 would be followed by the claim of Rauf Hakeem for a separate district in the East for the Muslim people.<\/p>\n

That is the change\u00a0 Maitripala Sirisena is proposing\u00a0 backed by the motley crowd- Ranil, Chandrika, Sarath, Champika and Ratana, behind him.\u00a0 We can imagine what changes are afoot if the voters make a mistake in their vote casting it to the wrong person in place of the President Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

Ranil Wickramasinghe and Chandrika had been having political power before President Mahinda Rajapakse.\u00a0 But they were unable to make any changes then\u00a0 and how can they\u00a0 make any changes now after the President Mahinda Rajapakse has\u00a0 accomplished\u00a0 making all changes which they had miserably failed to do.<\/p>\n

Therefore their slogan, \u00a0 vote for Maitripala Sirisena for a change\u201d, \u00a0is to fool the people as any change they can do now would be to undo every thing that has been done by the President Mahinda Rajapakse and return Sri Lanka back to what it was in 2005.<\/p>\n

The right thinking people of Sri Lanka cannot allow that to happen therefore they should without any hesitation give their precious vote to the President Mahinda Rajapakse\u00a0 for him to continue his making changes\u201d in Sri Lanka which he started in 2005.<\/p>\n

When the President Mahinda Rajapakse took over the Presidency in 2005, he inherited a Sri Lanka which had been partly handed over to the terrorist by the Ranil-Chandrika duo.\u00a0 No one\u00a0 imagined what the President Mahinda Rajapakse could do with it.\u00a0 The USA and the West was demanding\u00a0 a political settlement\u00a0 which would have been handing over a merged North and East to the terrorists.<\/p>\n

A military settlement was hardly imaginable with a demoralised Sri Lanka Armed Force with outdated arms and completely neglected by Ranil-Chandrika duo who had confined the \u00a0the Armed Forces to the barracks with the terrorist having an upper hand with a CFA that had been signed by the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe with the connivance of Chandrika the then President, with the terrorist leader Prabhakaran.<\/p>\n

It would have been a daredevil\u201d attempt to face a well equipped\u00a0 well trained terrorist force with the Sri Lanka Armed Forces in the sorry state that they were found.\u00a0 But it had to be a Mahinda \u00a0Rajapakse to take that challenge without knowing what the outcome w\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as going to be.<\/p>\n

That is the calibre of the man who is today challenged by a nincompoop who signs agreements with any one without considering the impact those agreements would have on the country with the sole desire of\u00a0 defeating the President Mahinda Rajapakse\u00a0 what ever would happen to the country.<\/p>\n

President Mahinda Rajapakse has not sought to be the President of Sri Lanka for the prestige that comes with it, nor has he sought to be the President to enjoy the excellence of recognition amoung the people, nor the respect and welcome he gets here and abroad as a ruler.\u00a0 He has politics in his blood with deep rooted patriotic sentiments. He had \u00a0dedicated himself from his youth to politics.<\/p>\n

President Mahinda Rajapkse fought for human rights \u00a0long before it was hoisted as an arm against\u00a0 developing countries\u00a0 by USA and the West.\u00a0 There were ideas fermenting in him\u00a0 that he would utilise one day\u00a0 for the betterment of his beloved country and the people.\u00a0 It seems to be that\u00a0 which he sought to do\u00a0 if he were to be the President of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Hence when he became the President in\u00a0 2005 he knew what he was going to do with the office he had been endowed with.\u00a0 His Mahinda\u00a0 Chintanay is a\u00a0 document which contains the\u00a0 ideas that had matured during the whole of his political life.\u00a0 No President of any country in the world had presented a plan of action for the development of his\u00a0 country\u00a0 like the Mahinda Chintanaya.\u00a0 It contains every aspect of development in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

He knew that a development plan of a country is long\u00a0 specially when considering the\u00a0 disastrous \u00a0terrorism that had gone on fo thirty long years\u2026 without seeing an end to it.\u00a0 He knew that the Constitution had restricted a Presidents term of Office to two years.\u00a0 Can one complete\u00a0 the development process of a country utterly wrecked through terrorism and deprived of wealth, in two presidential terms?<\/p>\n

But the President Mahinda Rajapakse planned the first term of his office that began in 2005 to eliminate terrorism, to bring peace and security to the people.\u00a0 That he succeeded to do.<\/p>\n

Then began his second term in 2010. It was to rebuild Sri Lanka which had been devastated by the terrorists.\u00a0 It was also a period to begin reconciliation of the Communities and allow old wounds to heal.\u00a0 But this period saw intense activity by the USA and the West supported by the Sri Lanka Opposition led by UNP and the separatist politicians of the TNA to create a continuous campaign against the Government and the President Mahinda Rajapakse interposing violation of human rights as a tool for international agitation.<\/p>\n

Despite these barrage of distracting interventionists the President Mahinda Rajapakse kept on developing the country according to the plan of development under Mahinda Chintanaya.\u00a0\u00a0 The President Mahinda Rajapaksa with his calm disposition went ahead with his program of extending diplomatic relations in different directions of the Globe.\u00a0 He never brutalised the people, he was a father to the nation.\u00a0 He allowed complete press freedom despite their attack against him.\u00a0 He was an Executive President par excellence, never using his executive powers against the people or his critics. \u00a0\u00a0He never acted as a dictator though his antagonists say so expecting repercussions from he west.<\/p>\n

It is during this period that the President Mahinda Rajapakse saw that despite the vast progress the country had made in different fields such as social, economic, and education there was a fall in moral discipline, increase in\u00a0 criminality , and vociferous claims of corruption.\u00a0 He saw that all that could not be attended to within the term of office\u00a0 left to him, and the accomplished politician he is saw that to clean up what remains to be cleaned and take the country forward he should continue in his office for another term.\u00a0 The Constitution was amended to allow him to contest the Presidential election for a further term in office.<\/p>\n

We are today in the midst of the Presidential election campaign. It is very decisive not personally for\u00a0 the President Mahinda Rajapakse, \u00a0but for Sri Lanka that\u00a0 was taken out of a 30 years of suffering under a ruthless terrorism to undergo an unprecedented transformation\u00a0 into a middle level income economy,\u00a0 streamlined \u00a0with a network of highways with train services from the south to the north. Sri Lanka now has a sound economy.\u00a0 The country is supplied with electricity to almost every corner of the country.\u00a0 The higher and modern IT education , previously restricted to Schools in Colombo, are being extended to every village school.\u00a0 The towns in Sri Lanka are being beautified , and there is a marked \u00a0progress in\u00a0 every aspect \u00a0of life.<\/p>\n

The continuation of this unprecedented transformation of Sri Lanka depends on the re-election of the President Mahinda Rajapakse .\u00a0 Therefore it is imperative that every patriot \u00a0cast their vote unhesitatingly to the President Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

The contrary would certainly be a vote for a change\u201d .\u00a0 A change which is not for progression,\u00a0 but for regression to uncertainty, fear , separation of territory, communal discord and possibly another step towards terrorism.<\/p>\n

That is why we should\u00a0 vote for the President Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera Some say they would vote for the President Mahinda Rajapakse as there is no alternative.\u00a0 That however should not be the reason why we should vote for the President Mahinda Rajapakse. Because there is no alternative to\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapakse, as he is the only man worthy of holding the reins of Executive Presidency. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40476","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=40476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}