{"id":43315,"date":"2015-04-21T17:23:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T00:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=43315"},"modified":"2015-04-21T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T00:23:25","slug":"ranil-wickremasinghe-the-dictator-block-19a-why-empower-k9-suffering-from-rabies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/04\/21\/ranil-wickremasinghe-the-dictator-block-19a-why-empower-k9-suffering-from-rabies\/","title":{"rendered":"RANIL WICKREMASINGHE &#8211; THE DICTATOR!  BLOCK 19A &#8211; WHY EMPOWER K9 SUFFERING FROM RABIES?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe, who became the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka through the back door has so far conducted the affairs of the nation as a Dictator.\u00a0 Even though he has no Executive Powers yet, his methodologies of governance fall short of democratic methods.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His rise to the power with the help of Western Nations and India had infuriated the general public of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 President MS under obligation to RW,\u00a0 has so far failed to bring RW in line with the powers vested in the Prime Minister under the current constitution. The current President is carrying a heavy baggage of Western influence through the mediation of RW.<\/p>\n<p>Under these circumstance, any attempt to give more powers to RW\u00a0 by approving the 19A is dangerous<strong>.\u00a0 It will further enhance the hands of RW and without doubt he will behave like a K9 suffering with Rabies <\/strong>.\u00a0 Lets not forget, Mr RW is a shrewd, cunning and a clever politician.<\/p>\n<p>To save the Nation, any amendments to the existing Constitution should be delayed.\u00a0\u00a0 A draft Constitution should be placed before the general public to debate the pros and cons.\u00a0 The draft Constitution ought to be compiled by a Constituent Assembly comprising of all Members of Parliament.\u00a0 <strong>The one man show of Dr <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jayampathy<\/span> Wickremaratne should be placed in a dust-bin together with the Venerable (A)Sobitha.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If President MS continues to show his inability to control the Prime Minister RW, his weakness will boomerang on himself, sooner than expected<\/strong>.\u00a0 The general public of Sri Lanka is now ready for a re-run of the Presidential Election, Parliamentary General Election or both with a Draft Constitution to be enacted by a future team of leaders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We demand that the President must dismiss the Prime Minister Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe forthwith<\/strong>. The general election is not due until next year , a new Prime Minister and a Cabinet should be installed immediately for the purpose of drafting a Constitution through a Constituent Assembly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The President MS should take immediate steps to bring sanity to Sri Lanka.\u00a0 Otherwise he too will be amongst the Gang of Insane.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe, who became the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka through the back door has so far conducted the affairs of the nation as a Dictator.\u00a0 Even though he has no Executive Powers yet, his methodologies of governance fall short of democratic methods.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His rise to the power with [&hellip;]<\/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-43315","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\/43315","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=43315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}