{"id":43106,"date":"2015-04-13T00:13:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T06:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=43106"},"modified":"2015-04-12T17:11:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T00:11:58","slug":"sirisena-pleasing-the-unp-to-the-demise-of-the-slfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/04\/13\/sirisena-pleasing-the-unp-to-the-demise-of-the-slfp\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirisena Pleasing the UNP to the Demise of the SLFP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>King Soththisena is an Anuradhapura era king who ruled in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> century AD. His rule was marked by weak governance and atrocities against Buddhism. As a result he didn\u2019t last for more than a year. Unfortunately the same is enacted again in Sri Lanka. The incumbent president is bending over backwards to appease the TNA, UNP, India and the US. In doing so he is destroying his beloved SLFP for which he dedicated his entire adult life.<\/p>\n<p>However, appeasing these sections now turns fatal as the 19A aims to make him a permanent slave to the UNP Prime Minister. Incredibly, he fails to see this danger and is determined to pass the 19A. His action, coupled with the actions of Mahinda and Chandrika have further destroyed the SLFP. Now it has no chance of winning the forthcoming General Election. It\u2019s fragmented and its first and second layers are pulling in opposite directions. The president is once again blind to this happening and plays his role in the UNP plan to fragment the SLFP.<\/p>\n<p>He must realise his responsibilities to the nation and the party and act accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>His foreign policy which swings from India to China back and forth puts the nation in deeper danger than it is now. Ultimately it will be without any dependable external friends. His finance and internal affairs ministers have already earned the wrath of the people. These differences between the SLFP and the UNP will amplify after the General Election if the UNP wins it. The president will be an absolute slave and a prisoner of the UNP parliamentary majority. His policy alignment is with Mahinda, not the UNP. The sooner he acknowledges it, the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara King Soththisena is an Anuradhapura era king who ruled in the 5th century AD. His rule was marked by weak governance and atrocities against Buddhism. As a result he didn\u2019t last for more than a year. Unfortunately the same is enacted again in Sri Lanka. The incumbent president is bending over backwards to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43106","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=43106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}