{"id":42060,"date":"2015-03-06T22:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T04:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=42060"},"modified":"2015-03-06T14:47:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T21:47:23","slug":"a-river-does-not-flow-backwards-swrd-bandaranaike-former-leader-and-prime-minister-of-mahajana-eksath-peramuna-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/03\/06\/a-river-does-not-flow-backwards-swrd-bandaranaike-former-leader-and-prime-minister-of-mahajana-eksath-peramuna-government\/","title":{"rendered":"“A RIVER DOES NOT FLOW BACKWARDS” – SWRD BANDARANAIKE, Former Leader and Prime Minister of MAHAJANA EKSATH PERAMUNA\u00a0 Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The victory of Late Mr SWRD Bandaranaike in 1956\u00a0 was a hallmark of Sri Lankan politics.\u00a0\u00a0 Moving away from the United National Party which had been an obedient servant of the puppets of England, SWRD pioneered a new visionary path for Ceylon ( Sri Lanka).\u00a0 It was no easy task for a man with Oxford Education and high class family back-ground to generate public support for his thoughts at that time.<\/p>\n

He turned to Mr Philip Gunawardene, a reformed Marxist and leader of LSSP and few patriotic leaders who were equally keen in setting a political agenda based on the local needs.\u00a0 The UNP did not change the direction of the government strategy,\u00a0 even 8 years after the Independence. Before Mr Bandaranaike came into power, Ceylon was still a de-facto British Colony run by Black Ceylonese.\u00a0 They were faithful guardians of the British Empire, the wishes of the general public were constantly ignored.<\/p>\n

A similar scenario is now developing in Sri Lanka almost after 56 years.\u00a0 The UNP puppets are at the helm, unfortunately with the help of the current leadership of SLFP.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Their main demand at the moment is to increase the number of Cabinet Portfolios so that some of the corrupt old guards of the SLFP can be bought over to join a National Government.<\/p>\n

On the other side of the coin, the River has continued to flow downwards.<\/strong>\u00a0 First at Nugegoda and then yesterday in Kandy, the public participation was unimaginable.\u00a0 At these\u00a0 meetings, there was no Mahinda Rajapakse in attendance.\u00a0 At these meetings, there was no Gotabaya Rajapakse.\u00a0 At these meetings there were no Film Stars, Teledrama Actors or Actresses and obviously there was no Salman Khan.\u00a0 \u00a0Yet\u00a0 neither Nugegoda\u00a0 nor Kandy\u00a0 had ever witnessed\u00a0 a gathering of this proportion.\u00a0 Mr Maithreepala Sirisena had his first campaign meeting as the Common Candidate at the same venue in Kandy in December last year, but yesterday’s crowd was at least 4 times greater.<\/p>\n

These events were organised by the son of Mr Philip Gunawardene ( Dinesh Gunawardene), Wimal Weerawana, Vasudeva Nanayakkara and Udaya Gammanpila.\u00a0\u00a0 The government leaders are in total disarray being unable to comprehend as to how the above team of 4 people continuously manage to draw massive crowds for the meetings.<\/p>\n

To market Mr Mahinda Rajapakse, you don’t need Salmal Kahn or other Celebrities.\u00a0 “Mahinda Rajapakse” brand name\u00a0 is a marketable quality product, its attraction\u00a0 extend to a wider audience.\u00a0 It is just like Coca Cola.\u00a0 Kentucky Fried Chicken market its products with Coca Cola.\u00a0 Domino Pizza market its products with Coca Cola.\u00a0 Subway market its products with Coca Cola.\u00a0 Oceana Cruise deals promote its tours with Coca Cola.<\/p>\n

Coca Cola is not going after\u00a0 Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza, Subway or Oceana.\u00a0 They need Coca Cola.<\/p>\n

“Mahinda Rajapakse” taste like Coca Cola. It is a prestige to hold “Mahinda Rajapakse”.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapakse need not\u00a0 go begging after SLFP.\u00a0 The SLFP will eventually surrender to ” MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The victory of Late Mr SWRD Bandaranaike in 1956\u00a0 was a hallmark of Sri Lankan politics.\u00a0\u00a0 Moving away from the United National Party which had been an obedient servant of the puppets of England, SWRD pioneered a new visionary path for Ceylon ( Sri Lanka).\u00a0 It was no easy task […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42060","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=42060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}