{"id":40827,"date":"2015-01-13T03:09:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T10:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40827"},"modified":"2015-01-13T03:09:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T10:09:13","slug":"who-is-responsible-for-the-victory-of-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/13\/who-is-responsible-for-the-victory-of-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VICTORY OF THE PRESIDENT?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,\u00a0Dehiwela<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

It is heatedly argued in many circles who is responsible for the victory of the president Mr. Maithripala Sirisena in the last historic election.<\/p>\n

The Minorities claim they are responsible since they voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Maithripala Sirisena and the Sinhala Buddhists claim it is their own propaganda which really made a difference. If we think about it logically, it is simple to realize that \u00a0\u00a0without the votes of either of them he could not have won. It is the collective voting of the entire country which made him victorious. Even though the south is depicted as if they voted for MR we must keep in mind that almost half of the south voted for MS. The way the colors are given in the map for areas where MR got majority gives a false appearance as if people of these areas voted en bloc for MR \u2013 not so. The whole island had supporters for MS and much more in the north and east. But without the votes in the south MS could not have won at all.<\/p>\n

Similarly who initiated this amazing process which brought down this marvelous change in our country?\u00a0 The venerable Buddhist Bhikkhus with a proper sense of Buddhism and social responsibility? The past president Chandrika Bandaranayke? \u00a0People like Ranil and Rajitha? The JHU speakers? The JVP firebrands? The Muslim ministers who crossed over? Actually every one of them played their part and without any of them, this would not have come through.<\/p>\n

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.\u201d So said \u00a0Harry S. Truman and it is important that this discussion should not make us divide again. Everyone had one goal and it was achieved \u2013 that is what matters.<\/p>\n

On a lighter vein there is only one person who can really really claim responsibility for this whole saga. That is of course none other than Mahinda Rajapakse himself, albeit ably supported by the vociferous rabidly racist BBS, which alienated him from every right thinking people irrespective of the religion or ethnicity.\u00a0 Even after the defeat he is going around saying the same things which brought him down. He says south voted for him and it is the Ealmists who voted for MS! How thick skinned can he get! If he is thinking of coming back into politics these could be the final nails in the coffin of his political career. Without barging in again, he needs to sit back and ponder on the mistakes he made in his career and re think of ways to re coup before destroying whatever meager support he has.<\/p>\n

Sent by:<\/p>\n

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,<\/p>\n

Dehiwela<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,\u00a0Dehiwela It is heatedly argued in many circles who is responsible for the victory of the president Mr. Maithripala Sirisena in the last historic election. The Minorities claim they are responsible since they voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Maithripala Sirisena and the Sinhala Buddhists claim it is their own propaganda which really made […]<\/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-40827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40827","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=40827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}