{"id":41823,"date":"2015-02-26T20:42:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T02:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=41823"},"modified":"2015-02-26T13:27:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T20:27:46","slug":"if-mahinda-rajapakse-wants-to-return-he-must-first-agree-to-these-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/02\/26\/if-mahinda-rajapakse-wants-to-return-he-must-first-agree-to-these-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"If Mahinda Rajapakse wants to return he must first agree to these demands"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Focus Today\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

There is a clarion call for the former President to return to politics and contest as Prime Ministerial candidate. The call comes with a growing number of people realizing that the Presidential election has turned Sri Lanka into a rogue state with the elected President turned into a puppet and a puppet now running the show on behalf of the West and reversing all that Sri Lanka has gained.<\/p>\n

While we are appalled at the manner RW and UNP gang have hijacked governance we cannot forget that MR’s faults contributed to the electoral regime change that took place.<\/p>\n

We cannot have MR return to power without acknowledging his mistakes and agreeing to not commit the same if elected again to power. Otherwise it is best for Sri Lanka to hunt for another man.<\/p>\n

Therefore MR must make a public commitment of assurance to the people<\/p>\n

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  1. No Basil, No Namal, No Yoshitha, No Rohitha and No Shiranthini or her family members will be given any role or allowed to bully MPs and other public officials and members of the armed forces thinking they belong to the royal family.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. No cronies and characters like Mervyn, Duminda, Sajin etc<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. Declaring Buddhism as state religion and Buddhist principles (that no one can object to on account of the compassionate nature to man and animal) in governance – following the dasa raja dharma concept that was followed by rulers that built the Sinhala civilization of Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        1. No political party or representative pushing ethnic-based politics to be given cabinet level portfolios<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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          1. Abolish 13a, remove PC system, introduce electoral system to deny minority parties becoming king makers using ethnic line.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            New Focus Today\u00a0 There is a clarion call for the former President to return to politics and contest as Prime Ministerial candidate. The call comes with a growing number of people realizing that the Presidential election has turned Sri Lanka into a rogue state with the elected President turned into a puppet and a puppet […]<\/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-41823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41823","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=41823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}