{"id":40835,"date":"2015-01-13T14:14:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40835"},"modified":"2015-02-01T07:11:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T14:11:43","slug":"an-opportunity-for-former-president-mahinda-rajapakse-to-have-a-new-team-who-are-not-corrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/13\/an-opportunity-for-former-president-mahinda-rajapakse-to-have-a-new-team-who-are-not-corrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"AN OPPORTUNITY FOR FORMER PRESIDENT MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE TO HAVE A NEW TEAM, WHO ARE NOT CORRUPT"},"content":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Before joining the MS\u00a0 alliance, the Great Cricketer Arjuna Ranatunga said on public stage that he has an agreement with Chandrika\u00a0 that corrupt MPs and Ministers in UPFA government will not be taken into the new regime.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact he has told Chandrika if corrupt MPs and Ministers are taken into the new regime, he will be the first to resign from the MS government<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Similarly, Patali Champka said before the election that Karuna Ammam should be arrested\u00a0 and should not be allowed to leave the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a challenge for Arjuna and Patali\u00a0 . Now it is time\u00a0 for them and others who uttered similar slogans before the election ” TO PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS”.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, the former President will have sigh of relief that the goose who destroyed him are no more with him.\u00a0 As promised by the former President before the election, those who left him at this stage should never be accommodated.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of the former Ministers and MPs are joining the new government, for their own advantage.\u00a0 Most of them have their children studying overseas requiring vast amount of funds each month.\u00a0 Others have enjoyed the luxury of more than 5 vehicles at the government expense.\u00a0\u00a0 They also had other businesses, condominiums in Singapaore, Malayasia.\u00a0\u00a0 Some have large estates in Australia, New Zealand.\u00a0 Yet they are unhappy without power and perks which they will somehow obtain from the new government.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Regardless of the number of MPs left for the former President, he need build a new team.\u00a0\u00a0 It is advisable to keep his sons away from politics as they have contributed to the defeat.\u00a0 Bringing Salman Khan became very unpopular, together with night car racing.\u00a0 The concept of NIL BALAKAYA is good,\u00a0 but Namal should not have been involved in it.\u00a0 We understand that he has become “big-headed” not listening to Senior Cabinet Ministers as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Former President’s policies are far superior and should build a new leadership team at the\u00a0 grass root level to assist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The political turmoil will begin in Sri Lanka, with the possibility of\u00a0 JVP, Sarath Fonseka leading a new alliance. Sajith Premadasa will not be a happy man\u00a0 for too long to hold the Ministerial post of Housing and Samurdhi when new comers have been given more senior responsibilities.\u00a0 Whilst Chandrika is attempting to fill the pack with defectors of UPFA,\u00a0 RW will come under increasing pressure to mend rules to satisfy Chandrika.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Constitutional changes to be enacted\u00a0 will definitely feature a new Executive Role for Chandrika.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Interesting periods are ahead, the best course of action for the former President will be to eliminate any remaining culprits in the party and re-organise the party structure.<\/span><\/p>\n

A\u00a0 classic political lesson can be obtained from Indonesia.\u00a0 Former President Suharto\u00a0 picked up a leading supporter of Megawati, known as Sutardi, to defeat Megawati’s leadership at the annual convention of the PDI (Partai Demokratik Indonesia).<\/span><\/p>\n

Megawati then formed a new political party under her leadership known as PDI(P) (Partai Domokratik Indonesia- Perjuangan “meaning “Struggle”.\u00a0 Subsequent years she became the President for a short period.\u00a0 Even with new new party struggling to get into power, party hierarchy was established to ensure grater coordination in all provinces.\u00a0 For the most recently concluded election she picked up the Governor of Jakarta Joko Widodo, who is now Indonesia’s President under the party flag of PDI(P) of Megawati Sukarnoputhri.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Before joining the MS\u00a0 alliance, the Great Cricketer Arjuna Ranatunga said on public stage that he has an agreement with Chandrika\u00a0 that corrupt MPs and Ministers in UPFA government will not be taken into the new regime.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact he has told Chandrika if corrupt MPs and Ministers are taken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40835","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=40835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}