{"id":41720,"date":"2015-02-21T18:37:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T00:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=41720"},"modified":"2015-02-21T11:33:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T18:33:54","slug":"appoint-mr-mahinda-rajapakse-as-a-national-list-member-of-parliament-overwhelming-demand-of-nation-upfa-and-slfp-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/02\/21\/appoint-mr-mahinda-rajapakse-as-a-national-list-member-of-parliament-overwhelming-demand-of-nation-upfa-and-slfp-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"APPOINT MR MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE AS A NATIONAL LIST MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT-  OVERWHELMING DEMAND OF NATION, UPFA AND SLFP MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The vast majority of the general public and the UPFA parlimentarians have realised the dangers of lop-sided results of the recently held Presidential Election in Sri Lanka.\u00a0\u00a0 The outcome resulted in punishing the Wrong Man ( His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapakse) and rewarding\u00a0 Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe, the well known anti-Nationalist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The realisation of the grave error of judgement on\u00a0 the election day has come sooner than expected.\u00a0 The public demand for the re-instatement of Mr Mahinda Rajapakse is outpouring.<\/strong>\u00a0 Efforts of the Opposition Leader Mr Nimal Siripala de Silva, National Organizer Mr Susil Premajayantha, President Maithireepala Sirisena and former President Mrs Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumatunge to ignore the public demand will be futile.\u00a0\u00a0 So far Mr Nimal Siripala de Silva has failed in his duties as the Opposition Leader.\u00a0 His No Confidence Motion signed by the majority of Parlimentaries against Minister Mr John Amaratunge has been put into the back burner at the request of Prime Minister. It is highly unlikely that Mr Siripala will be able to hold onto his power base in Badulla.\u00a0 Even though in 1994 Elections Mr Siripala obtained the highest preferential votes, the current trend clearly indicates erosion of his popularity.\u00a0 He is providing lip service to the Prime Minister instead of standing firm as the Opposition Leader.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 change of the Constitution should not be carried out in a hurry to pass on Executive Powers on a silver platter to Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe.\u00a0 Instead, the majority in the Parliament currently sitting as Opposition, should pave way to bring back the former President Mr Mahinda Rajapakse, prior to making any changes to the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The current wave of public sympathy towards the former President is converting into public anger against the SLFP leaders who are determined to block any efforts to bring back the former Leader<strong>.\u00a0 A resolution demanding the appointment of former President\u00a0 as a National List MP is being processed as a priority.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instead of repenting for the error of judgement on the 8 January, the majority Parliamentarians of the opposition should raise their hands immediately to instal Mr Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE The vast majority of the general public and the UPFA parlimentarians have realised the dangers of lop-sided results of the recently held Presidential Election in Sri Lanka.\u00a0\u00a0 The outcome resulted in punishing the Wrong Man ( His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapakse) and rewarding\u00a0 Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe, the well known anti-Nationalist. 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