{"id":42427,"date":"2015-03-18T21:18:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=42427"},"modified":"2015-03-18T04:51:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T11:51:04","slug":"former-presidents-decision-to-contest-the-prime-ministerial-post-good-for-sri-lanka-not-for-her-internal-as-well-as-external-adversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/03\/18\/former-presidents-decision-to-contest-the-prime-ministerial-post-good-for-sri-lanka-not-for-her-internal-as-well-as-external-adversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Former President’s Decision To Contest The Prime Ministerial Post Good For Sri Lanka Not For Her Internal As Well As External Adversaries!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Insight By Sunil Kumar,<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

March 18th, 2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0The breaking News that <\/span>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has decided to contest for the post of Prime Minister under the Sri Lanka Labour Party at the next Parliament elections probably has the likes of President Sirisena and\u00a0 pro tem Prime Minister Wickremasinghe\u00a0jittery and contemplating\u00a0 what adverse effect it might have on them\u00a0in the event of a victory for Mr Rajapaksa!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say it would be in the form of a mini tremor that could have Sirisena and his supporters quaking and some pondering their political futures for all the bad blood already being generated by some of them against the former President!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Mahinda\"<\/p>\n

It is also imperative to ensure the safety of the former President as he plans his agenda and conducts his campaign where all safety measures will be needed to be placed in high priority to avoid any calamities that could plunge the Nation into chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n

One thing is for certain, Mr Rajapaksa is no pushover, nor does he have a tainted track record like some within the present administrative setup who are trying their utmost to discredit and suppress him indicative of their nervousness about him and why \u00a0a win for him could be opportune for Sri Lanka at a time where the present administration is indicating many loopholes and weaknesses that could adversely affect Sri Lanka both politically as well as economically\u00a0where primarily there is also the danger of playing into the hands of the Tamil diaspora, the TNA and former Tamil Tiger supportives which also extends to Tamil Nadu ever watchful of cracks in\u00a0 Sirisena\u00a0 administered Sri Lanka\u00a0where the presence of Rajapaksa will certainly keep such trepidations at bay. <\/span><\/p>\n

Most \u00a0of Sri Lanka (other than those who don’t want to know)\u00a0as well as the world, knows that\u00a0he is not someone to be trifled with when given responsibility where the only reason he is not commander in chief is due solely to the betrayals he faced at the hands of some of his trusted allies who combined with his enemies to oust him over issues that were more insignificant than the significance of how he championed Sri Lanka into being a terrorist free Asian Nation that earned the respect of most of the world apart from the apathetic entities who believed the sob stories of the defeated. <\/span><\/span>
\n Something which veritably albeit unfortunately for Sri Lanka projected his enemies towards their own ambits and are now seated in power\u00a0but already that seems to be in jeopardy of being reversed in the not too distant future provided Rajapaksa has the renewed backing of an already frustrated and disgruntled Sinhala Nation ready to give him another chance and he conducts his direction towards the cause equitably and conscientiously\u00a0which most believe he will.<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore as Labour Party leader Mr.\u00a0A. S. P Liyanage has\u00a0said that the former President had talks with\u00a0his party on the matter and has also gathered support for the move from some Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) members it augurs well for Sri Lanka and not so much for his adversaries who apart from respecting him also fear him!.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reflective of the attitude of those who once benefitted from his benevolence towards them as a leader\u00a0yet undercut him eventually when Mahinda Rajapaksa had decided to contest under the Sri Lanka Labour Party after failing to secure the full support of the SLFP to be the Prime Ministerial candidate of the SLFP there are indications of axiety amomg some which In all probabilities are\u00a0due to a dormant fear of his capacity to override them but\u00a0 regardless of whatever ticket he contests on. one cannot rule out his chances!!<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr.A. S. P Liyanage, a leading businessmen in Sri Lanka, had contested past Presidential elections but had often used his time on State media during election campaigning to speak in support of the former President which is indeed a most gracious gesture which could be beneficial to all of Sri Lanka as many have already begun chanting “JAYAWEWA!”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Insight By Sunil Kumar, March 18th, 2015 \u00a0The breaking News that Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has decided to contest for the post of Prime Minister under the Sri Lanka Labour Party at the next Parliament elections probably has the likes of President Sirisena and\u00a0 pro tem Prime Minister Wickremasinghe\u00a0jittery and contemplating\u00a0 what adverse effect it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunil-kumar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42427","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=42427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}