{"id":41478,"date":"2015-02-13T21:47:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T03:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=41478"},"modified":"2015-02-13T03:33:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T10:33:55","slug":"witch-hunt-is-not-yet-over-as-unp-has-to-eliminate-rivals-and-take-away-their-civic-rights-before-the-next-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/02\/13\/witch-hunt-is-not-yet-over-as-unp-has-to-eliminate-rivals-and-take-away-their-civic-rights-before-the-next-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch-hunt is not yet over as UNP has to eliminate rivals and take away their Civic Rights\u00a0 before the next election."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The Stage has been set to culminate in a grand finale,\u00a0 the false allegations of corruption, criminal intentions, an election night plan for a military take over and stealing gold from\u00a0 the reserves in the Treasury and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n

The 100 day UNP Government has begun by taking over to their side \u00a0the law and Justice, by appointing their own Chief Justice, appointing their own Director General of the Commission of Bribery and Corruption Wasanthi Manchanayake, taking over \u00a0the police , taking over \u00a0the BASL on to their side by making its President Upul Jauyasuriya the Chairman of the Investment\u00a0 Committee, and taking over the academicians with the Professor\u00a0 Dewasiri of FUTA the spokes person\u00a0 for the National Movement for Social Justice at the helm.<\/p>\n

So what stops them from doing\u00a0 what they want to do?<\/p>\n

There is more to come to net the rogues, thieves, criminals and the rest of the miscreants of the previous government.<\/p>\n

The man hunt is on.<\/p>\n

To make it more convenient the President Maitripala Sirisena exasperated that despite all the accusations and allegation no one has so far been arrested has threatened to appoint a Special\u00a0 Presidential Committee of Investigation<\/p>\n

The objectives are very clear. The UNP, JHU and JVP have to clip the wings of their rivals so that the field would be clear for them to vanquish the opposition to take over\u00a0 political power.<\/p>\n

The UNP is at a disadvantage as the President\u00a0 has taken over the leadership of the SLFP and left UNP to go to election on its own with Ranil WIckramasinghe as the leader\u00a0 which would be a sure defeat-the 30th<\/sup> at an election.<\/p>\n

The former President Mahinda Rajapakse is still alive and kicking, more than ever before in the minds of the Sinhala Buddhists . That puts UNP at a greater disadvantage . Hence the UNP has to do some thing dramatic to\u00a0 win the elections.<\/p>\n

What\u00a0 a great chance UNP would have in\u00a0 winning\u00a0\u00a0 the general elections if it removes Mahinda Rajapakse from being present\u00a0 any where near the political field during elections simply \u00a0by removing his political rights ?.<\/p>\n

UNP has failed 29 times to gaine a single election victory.\u00a0 JHU on its own will get a few seats.\u00a0 Even that is doubtful .\u00a0 One wondes\u00a0 whether even Champika would be able to\u00a0 keep his seat\u00a0 as the trio\u00a0 Champika,Nishantha and Ven.Omalpe have become too aggressive for the liking of the ordinary man.\u00a0 JHU will not be a decision maker in an election, and JVP is a party that would be left out by the majority of the people, as JVP under Anura Kumara Dissanayake reminds the people more\u00a0 of the period of\u00a0 JVP terror.<\/p>\n

Both JHU with Champika and JVP with Anura Kumara Dissanayake\u00a0 are already disliked by the people from\u00a0 conversations that are beginning to be heard now.<\/p>\n

Ravi Karunanayake has failed to come\u00a0 even near to receive the approbation of the\u00a0\u00a0 people in the villages,\u00a0 and\u00a0 in urban areas outside Colombo.\u00a0 Even in Colombo there are those who begin to get tired to hear of this constant witch hunt to inculpate the former President , his former cabinet Ministers and his Defence Secretary and people connected to him. Because the masses still love the Rajapakses, and regret their unexpected departure from the political scene.<\/p>\n

The President Maitripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickramasinghe have put a thief to catch a thief as the saying goes and are sure that Ravi Karunanayake will come up with a credible accusation against the former President Mahunda Rajapakse, and Gotabhaya Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

It is a psychologic\u00a0 reaction which\u00a0\u00a0 UNP has failed to understand that\u00a0 they of the UNP will be hated when they over do accusing of a person who the people have accepted as their national hero to whom they owe a gratitude\u00a0 for having delivered them from the greatest menace of terrorism under which they lived in constant fear of\u00a0 death to themselves or to others\u00a0 close to them.<\/p>\n

I have heard a three wheeler who had been a soldier\u00a0 who fought under Sarath Fonseka say that it is a mistake, not to have elected President Mahinda Rajapakse. He asked with vehemence can you hide from the people the great work he has accomplished, and\u00a0 all his achievements\u00a0 which will remain for ever monuments to prove what a colossus that man had been even if\u00a0 this 100 day government heaps on him all the corruptions, malpractices or corruptions.<\/p>\n

He said that Sarath Fonseka as the Commander was very good .\u00a0 He described how he planned the strategies with plans\u00a0 for groups of\u00a0 soldiers to\u00a0 march into terrorist areas.\u00a0 But he said he is definitely not suitable to be a\u00a0 politician, and that he would have been much respected out side politics, as a retired hero who helped to end terrorism..<\/p>\n

There was one that argued\u00a0 that speaking about change of regime in Sri Lanka and the need of the West to retain its leadership in the world\u00a0 and\u00a0 check mate China\u2019s and Russia\u2019s influence in the Indian Ocean are not matters that interest the ordinary people.\u00a0 He said that the fear of the West that the formidable economic advancement of Sri Lanka would be\u00a0 followed by the rest of the developing countries would be a great threat to USA and the West, is not the concern of the ordinary people.<\/p>\n

He says\u00a0 what the people are interested in is\u00a0 to\u00a0 buy milk to feed their child, \u00a0and have consumable commodities at affordable prices. It is where he says that the President Mahinda Rajapakse failed and faced the inevitable consequences.<\/p>\n

The UNP and the President Maitripala Sirisena would not confine\u00a0 their witch hunt against the President Mahinda Rajapakse, because there are other important persons who have to be put in the same cell along with the former President Mahinda Rajapakse, if they are to be assured of a win at the election.<\/p>\n

Tissa Attanayake the former General Secretary of the UNP is also an important man, now a dangerous stumbling block for a UNP walkover at a general election. Tissa Attanayake had\u00a0 been quite\u00a0 frank throughout after his cross over stating that he is a member of the UNP and shall always remains an ardent member of his party.\u00a0 But he says\u00a0 that he crossed over because he did not like UNP becoming a secondary political party having to ask its members to vote to elect some one out side UNP and select not their traditional symbol of elephant but\u00a0 a swan.<\/p>\n

Tissa Attanayake has not completely lost his popularity amoung the ordinary members of the UNP.\u00a0\u00a0 He is a danger for the UNP in the forthcoming elections. Therefore the UNP leadership is all out to see that the same fate earmarked for the President Mahinda Rajapakse falls on him as well .\u00a0 Therefore, while he was given bail, is now to be arrested on another charge:<\/p>\n

Former UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake will be charged by police on attempt of causing racial unrest under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Act of 2007.
\n\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. the document allegedly forged by the MP claiming to be a secret agreement between the Tamil National Alliance and the then common presidential candidate, President Maithripala Sirisena would have caused racial disharmony. “In the document there are statements regarding the removal of military camps from the North and an agreement to implement the UNHRC proposals”, and these statements could have caused conflicts among groups of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police are investigating if the MP had intended to cause such issues,”\u00a0 said the Police Spokesman..<\/p>\n

President Maithripala Sirisena now the Leader of the SLFP with a great debt he thinks he owes to UNP for having made him the President of Sri Lanka,\u00a0 had heard that the Political parties allied to SLFP in the UPFA are proposing to field\u00a0 the former President Mahinda Rajapakse as their Prime Minister Candidate\u00a0 at the next elections.<\/p>\n

Therefore Maitripala Sirisena \u00a0fears the consequences of his victory\u00a0 and proposes a National Government without an opposition , while preparing probably\u00a0 to stop that possibility of Mahinda Rajapakse contesting under UPFA, by arresting him after investigation of allegations against him by a Special\u00a0 investigations\u00a0 Committee of the President, and to get a kangaroo court to remove his civic rights.
\nPresident Maitripala Sirisena\u00a0 was perhaps seeking\u00a0 sympathy of the Nurses in Maharagam when he spoke of how he was humiliated by the former President Mahinda Rajapakse in the presence of the CTC representatives, but that may be the psychological back ground in which he seeks that allegations against the former President be proceeded with before the end of 100 days.<\/p>\n

In the meantime CTC\u00a0 has strongly contradicted Minister Dr. Senaratne\u2019s allegation that massive bribes had been paid to the previous government to thwart Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s anti-tobacco campaign.<\/p>\n

The atmosphere in every sector of administration in Sri Lanka is gloomy The Chairperson of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Prof. Kshanika Hirimburegama has tendered her resignation to President Maithripala Sirisena through the Minister of Higher Education.\u00a0 She was appointed by the former President. She was the country\u2019s first woman appointed as the Chairman of the UGC.<\/p>\n

It is a coincidence that the first woman Chief Justice\u00a0 impeached under the former President\u00a0 was reinstated by the Maitripal Sirisena regime and the\u00a0 first woman Chairperson of UGC appointed by the former President was made to resign under the Maitripala Sirisena Regime.<\/p>\n

The UNP Minister of Finance does not take no for an answer when there is no corruption he insists there is corruption. <\/p>\n

Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake yesterday said that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has spent public funds lavishly and he had ample evidence to prove how he had done so.<\/p>\n

It is amusing if somebody says that former President has not been allocated a budget of a staggering Rs. 10,000 million. Karunanayake queried as to why such a colossal amount of money has been required by the former President.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ravi Karunanayake cannot, understand.\u00a0 He must still be believing that the army went to Medawchchi when it really went to Kilinochchi.<\/p>\n

He accused Gotabhaya Rajapakse having a personal account of 8 billion rupees in the BoC, and when it was refuted by the new Secretary of Defence , he continued with his allegation pointing out the irregularity of having an account in the Defence Secretariat.<\/p>\n

He follows Goebel\u2019s tactic of go on repeating a lie until it sounds true, probably on the instructions of his Masters from the West.<\/p>\n

In the mean time there are other moves to take revenge\u00a0 and\u00a0 put miscreants of the previous government in\u00a0 prison. Minister\u00a0 Kiriella had\u00a0 said the government decided to establish a Financial Crimes Investigation Division under the supervision of the police chief “to investigate into large scale financial transactions including money laundering activities.”<\/p>\n

That means Ravi Karunanayake may also \u00a0probably be investigated by this Financial Crimes Investigation Division.<\/p>\n

Ranil Wickramasinghe\u2019s 100 day cabinet is going in a big way after those who have been accused of corruption and malpractices, The Cabinet of Ministers had also approved a proposal by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to set up a secretariat to investigate into alleged large-scale corruption and malpractices of the previous government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why only the previous government ?<\/p>\n

If\u00a0 it is going to be a Secretariat for Investigation of Corruption it should include Ministers of previous UNP Governments as well.\u00a0 Otherwise it is dictatorial and anti democratic. That is no Yahapalanaya.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe seems to be shivering in his boots fearing to face an election as the leader of the\u00a0 UNP.\u00a0 In order to avoid that situation \u00a0he announces gleefully addressing an event at Royal College, Colombo\u00a0 that\u00a0 he, \u2026 does not want to form a United National Party (UNP) government at the next General Election and that he desires for the entire Parliament to be a government.\u00a0 What we have done is to work together with all the parties. In a way this is a challenge. In a way it\u2019s an opportunity,\u201d Because my hope is that after the next election, people ask me \u2018are you going to form a UNP government? Are you going to form a UNP-SLFP government? Are you going to form an anti-Mahinda government?\u2019 And my answer to all that is, no. I want the whole parliament to be a government,\u201d.<\/p>\n

That would avoid his 30th<\/sup> defeat at an election.<\/p>\n

President Maitripala\u00a0 Sirisena, Ranil Wickramasinghe and Champika Ranawaka have other people in view to put in\u00a0 the cell along with\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapakse.\u00a0 There is Wimal Weerawanse\u00a0 they fear, \u00a0and want to stop being heard during \u00a0the next election campaign.\u00a0 They have got the police to put his wife also into the prison for using two passports with differing personal information.<\/p>\n

What a crazy set up we have as a Government ?<\/p>\n

There was an interesting column in the Island\u00a0 News Paper-Anama Manam\u00a0 written by Hemantha Warnakulasuriya, an excerpt of which is given below:<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026Today, Maithreepala Sirisena came to power to stop corruption and central and to usher in a new epoch of good governance,which consists in the authoritarian powers vested in the executive presidency upholding the rule of law. So every single crime committed by the previous regime must be carefully investigated and if the police and the AG\u2019s Department are of the view that there is prima facie case, the suspect should he be produced in Court. Only a competent judge can find the accused guilty I have read that suggested that Special presidential commissions be established to try these offenders. I am appalled that those who came to power, promising governance, could even think that a Special Presidential Commission would bring the culprits to book. This monster was created by J. R.Jayewardena to disfranchise Sirimavo Bandaranaike, and Chandrika Bandaranaike used her powers to have several Presidential Commissions, including investigations into the Batalanda torture chamber, the killing of Vijaya Kumaranathunga, the killing of Lalith Athulathmudali and Denzil Kobbekaduwa. As a lawyer who appeared before almost all the Commissions,I knew it was a politically motivated judicial circus its nadir, and the Supreme Court decided the evidence collected for a number of years by one of these Commissions was not sufficient even to hang a rat. I believe that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe will advise the President against the establishment of Special Presidential Commission, which would be tatamount to burying the Rule of Law and ushering in an era of\u00a0\u2018Yakapalanaya\u2019,<\/em>\u00a0instead of\u00a0\u2018Yahapalanaya\u2019.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>In the mean time Mangala Samaraweera is courting USA.\u00a0 USA knows what the black politicians\u00a0 want for them to be ever grateful to them.\u00a0 Just a tap on the back and an invitation for a cup of tea is more than enough to satisfy our Foreign Minister who is looking for Rajapaksa\u2019s hidden treasures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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