Your Excellency the President,<\/p>\n
My felicitations for your election as the President of Sri Lanka,<\/p>\n
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Some voted for you and some against you.\u00a0 That is understandable as it is how democracy works.\u00a0 Therefore when you became the President some people were happy, while those whose candidate\u00a0 lost at the election were\u00a0 sad and dejected.\u00a0 Now that you have won the elections and sworn in as the\u00a0 President of Sri Lanka you should be generous and graceful in victory, and request your entourage to be like wise.<\/p>\n
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You cannot denounce \u00a0or allow your\u00a0 partners in victory to stamp their feet on the lost\u00a0 candidate and invent accusations\u00a0 with a view to make him unpopular, because it would any way be a vein exercise as a little more than 49\u00a0 percent of the whole voting population, and 53 percent of the Sinhala Buddhists voted for him.<\/p>\n
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However much your partners in government are raking up all dirt to find out whether\u00a0 they can bring up some thing to nail the \u00a0former President Mahinda Rajapakse \u00a0they will find nothing against him or against his family members.\u00a0 The people of this country who voted for the former President Mahinda Rajapakse\u00a0 cannot be deceived to believe\u00a0 by \u00a0false allegations without\u00a0 any substantial proof\u00a0 against him, that he was \u00a0corrupt and robbed the country.<\/p>\n
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Mahinda Rajapakse or his brothers did not come to rob and accumulate ill earned wealth to lead a comfortable life.\u00a0 As you know very well Your Excellency\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapakse had a clear objective when he contested the Presidential election\u00a0 in 2005.\u00a0 You know without \u00a0my having to remind you the state in which this country was in 2005. Mahinda Rajapakse had two main objectives when he was elected President in 2005.<\/p>\n
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One was to defeat the terrorists and eliminate them. The second was to give back to Sri Lanka and its people the development of the infrastructure-roads bridges, railway, irrigation system, and provide financial and \u00a0social progress they had been deprived for 30 long years. He mad it his principle objective to develop the North where the people ” he thought” suffered most from terrorism.<\/p>\n
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In the latter Your Excellency, the former President Mahinda Rajapakse made a mistake , because the Tamils in the North got the best they could from him, and voted against him.\u00a0 The Sinhala in the South would have voted for him any way, but he could have taken half the funds spent for the development of the Tamils in the north to spend it in the south,because the Sinhala people also suffered from terrorism.\u00a0 But the former President Mahinda Rajapakse treated all people without a difference, but it would have been natural if he expected the Tamils\u00a0 to show their gratitude by voting for him.<\/p>\n
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Your Excellency, it has been reported that\u00a0 you have since your swearing in as the President of Sri Lanka made three good speech.\u00a0 They are perhaps of general interest. But the time has come for you to make more frequent speeches and on policy matters \u00a0and the comportment of your Ministers to remind them of their moral duty to be kind and generous to the vanquished-Maitri Palanaya demands just that.<\/p>\n
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You have to tell the people Your Excellency, why this \u00a0intolerable witch hunt to inculpate the President and his family for crimes they have not committed. The Police\u00a0 Force is sent to investigate their homes and homes of their friends and neighbours immediately complaints are made on flimsiest matters.<\/p>\n
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All your Ministers\u00a0 are out\u00a0 raking \u00a0so much of dirt in search of evidence against the Rajapakses some people say sarcastically you have not appointed Ministers to your cabinet but sanitary inspectors.<\/p>\n
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Your Excellency,\u00a0 the Ranil Wickramasinghe , Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Champika Ranawake the most important people\u00a0 in your government today want\u00a0 to remove your executive powers.\u00a0 But Your\u00a0 Excellency you are today already without any power despite\u00a0 being an Executive President.\u00a0\u00a0 It is\u00a0 Ranil Wickramasinghe, as the Prime Minster\u00a0 who decides for you .\u00a0 He wants the 13th<\/sup> \u00a0Amendment implemented.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Is it not wrong to do so and allow the Tamils eventually \u00a0create a separate Tamil Eelam State in the north, which Prabhakaran the terrorist wanted ?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ranil Wickramasinghe could be a dangerous Prime Minister to work with .\u00a0 You remember what happened when he became the\u00a0 Prime Minister under President Chandrika Kumaratunga ?\u00a0 He signed the\u00a0 CFA with Prabhakaran\u00a0 and it took\u00a0 a President like Mahinda Rajapakse to rectify that great error.\u00a0 This time he is trying to do the same thing and it appears that you cannot have your say on the matter.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You are hedged in \u00a0between\u00a0 Anura Kumara Dissanayake with the powers of the National Executive Committee, then\u00a0 with Champika Ranawake of the JHU, Ranil Wickramasinghe\u00a0 your Prime Minister and Mangala Samara Samaraweera who is building an unholy alliance with India and trying to sell off the Sovereignty of Sri Lanka inviting the UN and an International\u00a0 Commission to inquire into what happened during the last phase of the war against terrorists. They all stand tall over you and plan and arrange things\u00a0 without even consulting you from what we see from far.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Worse things are on the pipe line Your Excellency, and one begins to wonder whether it is wise for you to divest\u00a0 yourself of your Executive Powers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your Excellency, Our Constitution is the supreme law of the land .\u00a0 \u00a0“The Constitution sets out a regular procedure for enacting Constitutional amendments, and that procedure gives citizens an opportunity, albeit a brief and limited one, to challenge proposed amendments before the Supreme Court.\u00a0 Citizens have this same right with respect to any proposed new law.\u00a0”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your Prime Minister Your Excellency is proposing to bring Amendments to the Constitution\u00a0 within the 100 days of your interim government under the Urgent Bill provision.\u00a0 It is wrong to bring any amendment to the Constitution\u00a0 without a\u00a0 serious debate.\u00a0 No amendments should be made \u00a0to the Constitution\u00a0 in a “hurry” resorting to the Urgent Bill Provision.<\/p>\n “The “Urgent Bills” provision allows the president and the Cabinet to bypass the normal procedure for enacting new laws, which means citizens do not have a chance to challenge the proposed law, at the Bill stage, even to the limited extent they are normally allowed.\u00a0 All that is needed to pass an “urgent Bill” is an endorsement by the Cabinet that the Bill in question is “urgent in the national interest,” and a two-thirds majority in Parliament on the day the vote is taken on the Bill.<\/p>\n With regular legislation (i.e. proposed laws other than Constitutional amendments) the law in question, even if it is passed as an “Urgent Bill” it can be repealed later with just a simple majority in Parliament.\u00a0 So, for instance, if a law passed as an “Urgent Bill” becomes obnoxious to the people later on, it can be repealed by a simple majority in Parliament, and that’s the end of the matter.<\/p>\n With a Constitutional amendment, if it becomes obnoxious later on, a simple majority in Parliament cannot repeal it.\u00a0 One has to obtain a two-thirds majority, which is obviously much more difficult.<\/p>\n So, in essence, what using the “Urgent Bill” provision to enact Constitutional Amendments does is, it deprives the citizen of even the limited chance he or she has to challenge the proposed amendment before it becomes law, and makes it more or less impossible to repeal the new amendment were it to become obnoxious later on.\u00a0 It is a thoroughly dangerous invention, to say the least.\u00a0” (Dharshan Weerasekara –<\/p>\n