{"id":40588,"date":"2015-01-04T22:43:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T04:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40588"},"modified":"2015-01-04T14:36:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T21:36:41","slug":"anti-national-agents-behind-sirisena-to-reverse-nations-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/04\/anti-national-agents-behind-sirisena-to-reverse-nations-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-national agents behind Sirisena to reverse\u00a0nation\u2019s gains"},"content":{"rendered":"

H. L. D. Mahindapala<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

When Bishop Rayappu Joseph, one of the most rabid and committed\u00a0 promoters and protectors of Tamil fascist tyranny, raised his hands that\u00a0 blessed Velupillai Prabhakaran in the past and placed them on the head of Maithripala Sirisena the other day, he was signaling, in an unambiguous political act, that he was blessing what he considers\u00a0 to be the second coming of Prabhakaran.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0This symbolizes the peak point of the anti-national forces ganging up to embrace Maithripala Sirisena as their new Messiah, in the absence of Prabhakaran. This also means that Bishop Rayappu representing the Tamil-wing of the Catholic Church and Tamil extremism, the TNA and the other leading anti-national forces of the north and south have got behind Sirisena to reverse the gains of the post-Nandikadal victory. They are acting\u00a0 jointly in the belief that Sirisena will deliver, through the presidential-parliamentary process that\u00a0 is yet to be defined, at least a part of what was lost at Nandikadal. TNA is also hoping to collect a couple of ministerial portfolios in My-3s\u201d Cabinet, if he can form one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Sampanthan, the leader of the TNA, too hinted at the possibility of accepting portfolios at the press conference\u00a0 that announced TNA\u2019s support for \u201dMy-3\u201d. When Sampanthan was questioned about accepting ministerial portfolios he replied that it is not contemplated now\u201d but anything can change. Everything\u00a0 changes, he added, leaving the possibility of accepting portfolios wide open.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The fact that Sampanthan did not deny it outright confirms\u00a0 that a secret\u00a0 deal has been cut \u2013 the details of which are likely to come out\u00a0 once they start implementing, after January 8, 2015, the promises made in their secret deal. TNA, like any other political\u00a0 party, has thrown its weight behind My-3\u201d only on terms and conditions favourable to its political agenda. TNA is not jumping with both feet into My-3\u2019s\u201d camp just to chew a stick or two of kotta-kelangu <\/em><\/strong>with Maithripala Sirisena.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Obviously, they would have asked, before joining, what\u2019s in it for us. TNA\u2019s bargaining would have aimed at proving to the Tamil voters that their investment in My-3-pala-naya\u201d has produced dividends. In the past the Tamil leadership has paid a heavy price for backing\u00a0 the wrong horse at the wrong\u00a0 time. But they are not that stupid to give away their votes for nothing. They will ask for their pound of flesh and this will be revealed after January 8, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

    When at last the TNA declared that it is for Maithripala Sirisena it cleared the unresolved questions and fuzziness of the\u00a0 political landscape and revealed fully the alignment of forces in the coming presidential election. The final\u00a0 endorsement of TNA and SLMC confirmed that it is the defeated anti-national forces that have gathered to back Sirisena.<\/span><\/p>\n

    The list of those who has joined Sirisena speaks for itself. They are : 1. the TNA, proxies of Prabhakaran, 2. SLMC which signed a deal with Prabhakaran, 3. NGOs the\u00a0 partisan and active agents of Prabhakaran who defended him\u00a0 in international and local fora in\u00a0 the name of promoting\u00a0 peace, 4. Bishop Rayappu and the Tamil-wing\u00a0 of the Catholic Church that never failed to bless Prabhakaran, 5. Mangala Samaraweera of\u00a0 the failed Sudu Nelum movement initiated as a confidence-building act to appease Prabhakaran, 6. Ravi Karunayake linked to Raja Rajaratnam, the American-based financier\u00a0 of the LTTE, 7. Rajitha Senaratna, a puppet of the NGOs, 8. Mano Ganeshan, the loudspeaker of Prabhakaran, 9.Vickrama Bahu, the rotten corpse trying\u00a0 to rise from the Marxist morgue located somewhere in a corner of his \u00a0feudal Moratuwa \u00a0Walauwwa and 10) his straw scare-crow, Siri Jayatunga, the presidential candidate, who will get less votes than President Mahinda Rajapakse from the Tamils. \u00a0Last but not\u00a0 the least, there is Champika Ranawake, the born-again, pavement hawker of\u00a0 yellow\u00a0 robes, (or is it the yellow peril\u201d?), carrying the pin-pet-tiya<\/em><\/strong> and the mull-watt-tiya<\/em><\/strong> as offerings to his newly ordained TNA hamu-duru-woes.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0Of course, Kumaratunga and Wickremesinghe, who are leading\u00a0 this anti-national movement, have been the pioneers who originally engineered their disastrous formulas \u2013 disastrous to them and to the nation — to appease Prabhakaran. Since the failure of Ceasefire Agreement of 2002 and the subsequent P-TOMS of Chandrika Kumaratunga they have been rejected by the people as monumental failures that dragged the nation into depths of despair. \u00a0They know that they have lost the confidence of people. That is why they cannot appear on their own to lead the election\u00a0 campaign. They are taking cover behind Sirisena while they retain the strings to make him dance\u00a0 to their tunes.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0This is what makes Sirisena an explosive time-bomb waiting to go off after January 8. The old\u00a0 failures have returned to lead the defeated forces and restore status\u00a0 quo ante Nandikadal. This is the biggest threat to the nation. Besides, the Kumaratunga-Wickremesinghe combination has cobbled up the My-3\u201d Coalition, consisting of diametrically opposed political opponents, who have no alternative constructive\u00a0 policy or programme \u00a0to compete politically on the national\u00a0 platform\u00a0 with the constructive advances made by the Rajapakses. Their tactic has been to join hands\u00a0 with the forces that were defeated and make it look like a new move for change. But anyone can see that it is nothing but old tala thel<\/em><\/strong> (gingely oil) in old Horagolla bottles.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0Despite the many denials, it is now generally accepted in political circles that the secret deal was brokered by Chandrika Kumaratunga-Ranil Wickremesinghe combination. They were not alone. Behind them were the Western and Indian interventionists who were pressuring the TNA to go along with the My-3 pala-naya\u201d. And they did. In keeping with the secret deal the TNA kept their decision to back Sirisena under wraps for three weeks since the date of the elections was announced and declared their hands only at the eleventh hour. Bishop Rayappu stepped in only to seal the pre-arranged deal with his blessings.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0This deal was predictable and made possible because of two main reasons:<\/strong> 1. the identical political forces of the south that produced the Norwegian-brokered CFA of 2002 (Ranil Wickremesinghe) and subsequent P-TOMS (Chandrika Kumaratunga) that handed over North and the East to Prabhakaran are now back in the driving seat of Sirisena\u2019s political wagon and 2. a TNA–My-3\u201d deal\u00a0 provides the best opportunity for the TNA to reverse the historical gains of President Mahinda Rajapakse and restore to the TNA, the proxies of Prabhakaran, the little-now-more-later\u201d demands\u00a0 of their political agenda. Examples:<\/strong> handing over Police powers, land, and withdrawal of the Security Forces from the North and the South and other powers linked to 13+ which they have failed to get through Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0All other issues can be\u00a0 dismissed as smoke-screen to hide the TNA–\u201dMy-3\u201d deal for\u00a0 the anti-national forces to win the presidential election. In the final lap, this election has boiled down to a contest between national and anti-national forces.\u00a0 It was always that from the words go though it was disguised in irrelevant constitutional and political issues, most of which have been discarded even\u00a0 before the election could begin.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0Earlier,\u00a0 the picture was somewhat muddled with endless speculation on\u00a0 who will be with whom on polling day. This guessing game ended once the SLMC and TNA revealed officially their hidden agenda. After that the final battle lineup has demonstrated unequivocally that it is a straightforward contest between the forces that saved the nation (first, from the Tamil Tiger terrorists and, second, from\u00a0 the international interventionists)\u00a0 and the forces that abused the powers of\u00a0 the state to sell the nation to its enemies without informing the President, Parliament and the people.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0This election, fought on trumped up issues of changing\u00a0 the constitution, or restoring democracy, justice and clean administration, is, in reality, a battle to reverse the gains won at the end of the 33-year-old Vadukoddai War. What the Rajapakses rescued at Nandikadal was the cherished history of the nation. With the\u00a0 anti-national forces surrounding Sirisena\u00a0 he has no option but\u00a0 to surrender to their demands of reversing the\u00a0future history created by the Rajapakses.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0Chandrika Kumaratunga, let the cat\u00a0 out of the bag when she opened her loose mouth and referred to the internationally banned terrorist, who had no compunction in slaughtering his own people, as Mister Prabhakaran\u201d. She is now\u00a0 seen as having sold the nation for a few cheers and votes from Jaffna. Besides, she\u00a0 is hailing Prabhakaran at a time when even Sampanthan is distancing himself from the Tamil Pol Pot of Jaffna. TNA is washing its hand off LTTE because it can\u2019t be seen as a part of the internationally banned terrorist outfit. TNA is now seeking to\u00a0 present a clean image. \u00a0In an interview with the Daily Mirror<\/em><\/strong> (3\/1\/2015) he declared (lying\u00a0 through his teeth) that he was never for the LTTE and he wants to find a solution within united\u00a0 and\u00a0 undivided Sri Lanka. But Kumaratunga goes to Jaffna and hails Prabhakaran as if he was her best machang.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0How far can this cheap sell-out go to\u00a0add credibility to her already ruined image? Doesn\u2019t this reveal the real CBK and her brand of Dona Catherina politics? If she continues to hero-worship Prabhakaran as her Mister\u201d can\u00a0 she be trusted to protect or serve\u00a0 the national interests? Doesn\u2019t\u00a0 it reveal\u00a0 on whose\u00a0 side\u00a0 she is on the issues\u00a0 facing the nation? Isn\u2019t CBK already signaling that she\u00a0 is preparing\u00a0 to reverse history and hand over all the gains backs the proxies\u00a0 of her Mister\u201d? How is Sirisena going to balance Mister\u201d Prabhakaran\u2019s dear mistress and the JHU which is crying for the reduction of powers of the Provincial Councils? Is Sirisena depending on this loose cannon to deliver good governance? As the power behind Sirisena what does this portend for the future of the (1) Coalition and (2) the nation? Only a half-wit like CBK would think of winning votes in Jaffna by throwing sops to a Tamil Cerberus without realizing that it is going to lose vote outside Jaffna.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0At the same meeting\u00a0 in Jaffna Gen. Sarath Fonseka got\u00a0 booed when\u00a0 he tried make out that he fought a war causing the least amount of hurt to the Tamils. That is true. But that is\u00a0 not a vote-winning line in Jaffna. The\u00a0 gaffes of Kumaratunga and Gen. Fonseka have backfired just when they thought that everything was going fine for them. \u00a0More of these are yet to come either\u00a0 before or after January 8. This is inevitable because the inherent contradictions in the My-3-pala-naya\u201d are irreconcilable. These contradictions will either implode or\u00a0 explode sooner or later. Can the inevitable clash of ideologies and personalities \u2013 most of\u00a0 whom can\u00a0 never agree on fundamental issues — produce a stable government or work together for long to achieve their promised\u00a0 goals?<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0As if there aren\u2019t enough of anti-national forces in Sirisena\u2019s unworkable Coalition they have \u2013 believe it or not! \u2013 thrown in representatives of NGOs to be a part of running the administration. Addressing the businessmen gathered\u00a0 at the Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel, Sirisena announced that in keeping with his promise to restore democracy his very next act which would take place on the following day of assuming office will be to establish a National Advisory Council that includes representatives of all parties represented in Parliament as well as Civil Society organizations.\u201d (The Island <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 December 28, 2014)<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0The inclusion of NGOs into the National Advisory Council (NAC) is hilarious, to say the least. Let us, however, assume that the NAC has some potential to serve as a useful body, though I believe\u00a0 it is bound to wind\u00a0 up as another expensive body full of windbags.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Let us also assume that representatives of political parties can also give\u00a0 some advice though it\u00a0 is a redundant body in view of the fact the Coalition government and the parliament as a whole consist of all the multiple parties in the field. Why duplicate parliament in an advisory body? Who is going to pay for this extravaganza?<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0But what\u00a0 is ridiculous and unacceptable is the\u00a0 inclusion of Civil Society organizations\u201d in the NAC. Though the NGOs talk glibly of good governance they can\u2019t run their own foreign-funded institutions efficiently or free from corruption and abuses of their staff. For instance, investigations have revealed that NGOs like ICES and CPA are running mega-million organizations without properly accounting for the money they receive from their Western donors.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0When the diddled accounts of ICES were investigated Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy washed\u00a0 her\u00a0 hands off saying that\u00a0 she merely signed what was put before her. Is that a qualification of good governance\u201d? \u00a0\u00a0It was her counterpart in the Centre for Policy Alternative (CPA), Paki\u201d (Mister Corrupt) Saravanamuttu, who led the campaign against ICES exposing its shady deals. Of course, Mister Corrupt Saravanamuttu is no better. He is yet to account for the double-billing presented to his European donors to cover-up for the drinking bajau<\/em><\/strong> of CPA held at Galle Face Hotel. When charges were raised about CPA\u2019s crooked deals he said he will reply in two weeks and fled to UK.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Mister Corrupt Saravanamuttu can\u2019t even govern his CPA let alone advice the nation on good governance. When Sanjana (Foul Mouthed) Hattotuwa, his senior advisor in the CPA, abused a junior female staffer Mister Corrupt Saravanamuttu\u00a0 hushed\u00a0 up the affair by saying\u00a0 that it is an internal matter. Sirisena obviously will, no doubt, be influenced by Kumaratunga to appoint Mister Corrupt Saravanamuttu\u2019s, her dancing\u00a0 partner, to the National Advisory Council. This inclusion may give Mister Corrupt Saravanamuttu a great opportunity to get closer to his dancing\u00a0 partner. But how can the nation benefit\u00a0 when his\u00a0 sole mission has been to go on foreign-funded\u00a0 trips abroad and run\u00a0 down Sri Lanka as a place worse than hell at every stop on the way? It is also possible that \u00a0Jehan (Pacha) Perera too will be appointed to the NAC. He is another anti-national prevaricator who glorified the LTTE as state on par with the Sri Lankan state, particularly by conferring on O-Level Anton Balasingham with a doctorate which he never earned.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0Does any government need these corrupt, lying, abusive, money-making mudalalis<\/em><\/strong> in any advisory capacity? But the pre-election decision to take them in \u00a0guarantees that the My-3-pala-naya\u201d is going\u00a0 to be an alliance of all the anti-national forces. Remember, Mister Corrupt Saravanamuttu is the moralist\u201d who objected to Sri Lankans enjoying a piece of kiributh <\/em><\/strong>when the enemies were defeated at Nandikadal. Sirisena also enjoyed the triumph of Sri Lankan forces. Is he now going to vomit his kiributh<\/em><\/strong> because Mister Corrupt Saravanamuttu has\u00a0 branded\u00a0 it as triumphalism\u201d? Is Mister Corrupt Saravanamuttu fit to advice the nation on any subject, other than how to abuse women and make money by cooking the books? In any case, shouldn\u2019t he first answer the charges of corruption facing him and his institution before advising the My-3-pala-naya\u201d to create the ideal country\u201d, as promised in the Manifesto?<\/span><\/p>\n

    What is crystal clear in all this is that Sirisena\u2019s coalition is like Noah\u2019s ark: a\u00a0 weird menagerie \u00a0of political animals, ranging from\u00a0 Bishop Rayappu who can\u2019t even protect one of the\u00a0 sacred images of Catholicism\u00a0 in his Church\u00a0 at Madhu, to Mister Corrupt Saravanamuttu who can\u2019t protect the women working\u00a0 under him or\u00a0 the foreign donors money. The only qualification common to all of them is their political skullduggery to undermine and reverse the gains of\u00a0 nation\u2019s history in the post-Nandikadal era.<\/span><\/p>\n

    So who can trust Sirisena to deliver good\u00a0 governance, democracy, justice and national security, territorial integrity when his administration is in the hands of the leading anti-national forces who had undermined the will of the \u00a0people by selling it to the enemies of the nation, or foreigners, or their hired agents in the NGOs?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    H. L. D. Mahindapala When Bishop Rayappu Joseph, one of the most rabid and committed\u00a0 promoters and protectors of Tamil fascist tyranny, raised his hands that\u00a0 blessed Velupillai Prabhakaran in the past and placed them on the head of Maithripala Sirisena the other day, he was signaling, in an unambiguous political act, that he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h-l-d-mahindapala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40588","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=40588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}