{"id":41349,"date":"2015-02-08T21:46:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T03:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=41349"},"modified":"2015-02-08T07:59:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:59:04","slug":"weak-executive-parliament-is-the-newest-shortcut-to-eelam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/02\/08\/weak-executive-parliament-is-the-newest-shortcut-to-eelam\/","title":{"rendered":"WEAK EXECUTIVE & PARLIAMENT IS THE NEWEST SHORTCUT TO EELAM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chandrasiri Atukorale<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Some years ago before Sudda left this Island; the great patriot late Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala had made a forecasting to the Nation by way of a warning. This was what he said On some future day when Sudda departs from this land, it will do\u00a0 so by leaving behind it here on our soil, a coterie\u00a0 of Anglophiles trained to look after its colonial Interests.. With the recent election victory of President Maithreepala Sirisena regaining Sri Lanka dream of our erstwhile colonial masters have become a political reality. On 04 February 1948, Sudda left in order to stay. Though Sudda left in 1948 it is still haunting in our midst. This was nowhere more marked than when we look at the manner it changed the Rajapaksa regime. This in fact is nothing, but neo- colonialism. It is not clearly visible to our eye of flesh, but to our eye of wisdom. All these past years, they have been brainwashing the minds of our people. They have conducted seminars, printed newspapers & magazines, offered scholarships to local politicians in such way that they could manipulate the minds of the members of the civil society. The most pathetic thing is that some of our leading Buddhist monks, not knowing the truth as they truly are have fallen prey to this stratagem. Very recently it was they who planted in or midst the bogey of executive presidency. All powerful Parliament is more dangerous than the executive presidency as obtaining it now. Today the erstwhile colonial masters are colluding with some of our local politicians and leaders\u2019 through the instrumentality of foreign funded NGO\u2019s to find ways and means for regaining Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

That is why they propose to give more and more powers to parliament thereby restricting the powers of Executive Presidency. As things stand at present our elected representatives in parliament are bound by the will of the people and they can act in disregard of the party directions if it clashes with the will of the people.<\/p>\n

Under the guise of proposing more powers to Parliament they try subtly to curb the power of elected representatives to use its free vote and make elected representatives subordinate to Party domination. This is a strategy to kill two birds with one shot<\/strong>. Once the proposed amendments are passed no elected representative can crossover from one side to the other side. If anyone crossed over he could be unseated after a disciplinary inquiry. We must thank former C.J Sarath N de Silva for giving legal recognition to the elected members of parliament to exercise its power as a right. The old colonial masters know very well some of our political party leaders and elected representatives are susceptible to bribery & corruption.<\/p>\n

And further they also know very well that those who control the parliament also in fact\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 control the country\u2019s whole governing process.<\/strong> The likely result of all this is the country will be getting a powerless parliament and a powerless Executive. Whither the peoples sovereignty.<\/p>\n

The defects of our Executive Presidency is to be found not in the powers of Executive Presidency, but elsewhere. It is the lack of direct checks & balances<\/strong> in the constitution for people to exercise its sovereign powers. It is here that we need to have embodied in our constitution remedies like Recall & Referendum. The right to unseat an elected representative ought to be a right reserved for the electorate which the respective member concerned represents. To elucidate the gravity of this situation we cite Moriss Duverger : Executive and Legislature government & parliaments are constitutional facades ;in reality party alone exercise power.<\/strong> We must be on the alert against anything which tends to blunt elected representatives independence. In Sri Lanka political parties are dens of corruptions .Some of them are funded by foreign NGO\u2019s, erstwhile colonial masters collude with these so called party leaders to disrupt the Sinhala Buddhist culture. In conclusion I appeal to patriots like Ven Alle Gunawasnha Thero, Dr, Gunadasa Amarasekera , Gomin Dayasiri to enlighten the Sinhala Buddhist population against the possible danger inherent in this present move to make parliamentarians subordinate to party rules ignoring the will of the people or the electorate,. If we fail to defeat this move the future anti Sinhala Buddhists governments will be able to crush the Sinhala Buddhist power permitting minorities to rule the majority. At the moment we hear very unpleasant things about some of our local political parties. How much they are anti-national can be gaged from the fact that some of those parties are affiliated to the British Conservative & the American Republic parties which promoted the cause of Eelam. Through the instrumentality of the local parties USA,UK & NATO countries can dictate its terms to us..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chandrasiri Atukorale Some years ago before Sudda left this Island; the great patriot late Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala had made a forecasting to the Nation by way of a warning. This was what he said On some future day when Sudda departs from this land, it will do\u00a0 so by leaving behind it here on our […]<\/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-41349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41349","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=41349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}