{"id":40731,"date":"2015-01-09T21:24:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T03:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40731"},"modified":"2015-01-09T13:04:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T20:04:57","slug":"tna-and-slmc-become-king-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/09\/tna-and-slmc-become-king-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"TNA and SLMC become king makers !"},"content":{"rendered":"

P.Ariyasinghe, Melbourne<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Maithripala Sirisena has taken oaths as President. He made pacts with everyone opposed to Mahinda. Mahinda failed to recognise that those who were around him were corrupt . Most Ministers were arrogant and corrupt to the core and were basking in the glory of former President’s victory over the terrorists. Some alleged that Mahinda was authoritarian. Corruption and the cost of living were two major factors which went against him. During the elections the new President made never ending promises. For eg a salary increase of Rs.15,000, cancellation of motor cycle loans for public servants, cost of living etc were major attractions. Further, Mahinda became overconfident. His promise to abolish Executive Presidency did not materialize. Arrogant Ministers were misusing state wealth. So the traditional Sinhala voters who were with Mahinda turned their back on him.<\/p>\n

President Sirisena won because of the backing of the TNA and SLMC and they have become king makers. This had been the pattern of Sri Lankan politics. In 2005 Ranil lost because of Tamil votes. The common opposition consists of a number of political parties having different ideologies. The question is once\u00a0 the honeymoon is over how long will they survive. For eg the SLFP is fragmented. Then we have the UNP, TNA, SLMC, JVP, JHU and so on. With time each one will be asking for their pound of flesh. Especially the so called aspirations of the TNA will anger certain sections of the Sinhala community. TNA\u00a0 will be the first to leave.<\/p>\n

Mahinda’s defeat is welcome news for the west and ofcourse the Tamil diaspora. Vaiko , Gen. Secy of MDMK has said ‘It’s the happiest day of my life’. NGO’s and the anti war groups will be smiling. At the moment it looks as if the new President has Blessings of everyone. After all a new broom sweeps well !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

P.Ariyasinghe, Melbourne Maithripala Sirisena has taken oaths as President. He made pacts with everyone opposed to Mahinda. Mahinda failed to recognise that those who were around him were corrupt . Most Ministers were arrogant and corrupt to the core and were basking in the glory of former President’s victory over the terrorists. Some alleged that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40731","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=40731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}