{"id":41022,"date":"2015-01-27T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=41022"},"modified":"2015-01-26T17:51:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T00:51:31","slug":"now-that-its-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/27\/now-that-its-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Now that it’s over"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laksiri Warnakula<\/b><\/h2>\n
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A salutary remark<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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Our beloved land still exists, undivided and should I say not very much united? However, the credit for preserving what Sri Lanka has been for thousands of years in its entirety should go to Mr M. Rajapaksa. \u00a0And the ones, who try to belittle what he did in that regard, are doing something not right. After all, he did not kowtow to the west or bend down in the face of enormous pressures brought on him, both within and without.<\/div>\n
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I do not want to write anything about ‘why Mr Rajapaksa had to go’. Most of us know that and agree on what he shouldn’t have done. That’s why he lost the election.<\/div>\n
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So far, that is till the 09th of of this month<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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They all went one way or the other. And they, at least for some time brought hope and dreams of a wonderland, to people like you and me.<\/div>\n
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The vanquished became subjects of relentless criticism for things done, undone and not-done at all during their reign, up until the election fever subsided. Later they would keep coming back again and again, when many a promise given to the people at the election-campaigning could not be fulfilled, leaving only the customary blame-game for us to watch and weep in silence.<\/div>\n
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The victorious came out with new agendas for nation building and of course the commissions. There were lots of them. And they achieved next to nothing.<\/div>\n
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From present to the future<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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Dear Mr President, I am an ordinary Sri Lankan and am not an expert in political-economy or economical politics! However, please allow me; governing our nation with ‘good governance’, which was your election motto could be made much easier, if you can do a few things in the direction of disciplining our politicians.<\/div>\n
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We need a whole new definition to the term ‘politician’ and a new code of conduct for them. It must be drilled into them that they are only servants of the public and not the masters. The deadly transformation of them becoming (once elected) tacticians, technicians, magicians, martial artists, con artists and what not, all rolled into one, must be eliminated once for all.<\/div>\n
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Their interference in anything else other than matters that they are responsible for must come to an end. They also need to be made accountable for what they do, in your name, in party’s name or whatever.<\/div>\n
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Please bring in new legislature, so that our commission for investigating bribery and corruption can question and look into matters relating to their wealth and assets at any time. This should be extended to cover all public servants.<\/div>\n
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It is quite sad to say that nowadays and more often than not, there is always someone in power, big or small behind most of those acts of corruption and lawlessness.<\/div>\n
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Lastly, please ask them to keep their families and friends away from their offices. Although nepotism and cronyism are not new to politics in many a country in the world, our country just over a few decades surpassed many of them in this regard.<\/div>\n
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And please advise them to talk to their kith and kin not to let it get into their heads; a puffed-up sense of self-granted power and authority that would make them act like they are now above everything and everybody under the sun that shines on our nation.<\/div>\n
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We can take our cue from the west, here (at least this is one thing that is good about them). If you ask any Englishman, Frenchman, Australian or any other westerner, what their PM’s or President’s children look like or what they are doing, a good majority of them would look at you with blank or amused faces that if interpreted in to words could only be saying ‘we don’t know’.<\/div>\n
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Mr President, If you can make this happen, you will then have achieved something that would indeed pave way to make our beloved land a miracle, not only of South Asia, but of the whole world.<\/div>\n

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Laksiri Warnakula A salutary remark Our beloved land still exists, undivided and should I say not very much united? However, the credit for preserving what Sri Lanka has been for thousands of years in its entirety should go to Mr M. Rajapaksa. \u00a0And the ones, who try to belittle what he did in that regard, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41022","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=41022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}