{"id":44179,"date":"2015-05-26T12:25:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T18:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44179"},"modified":"2015-05-25T15:05:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T22:05:48","slug":"the-unps-trojan-horse-strategy-will-fail-dismally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/05\/26\/the-unps-trojan-horse-strategy-will-fail-dismally\/","title":{"rendered":"The UNP\u2019s Trojan Horse strategy will fail dismally"},"content":{"rendered":"

R Chandrasoma\u00a0<\/span>Courtesy Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

In the historic defeat of MR, the strategists of the UNP (backed enthusiastically by an International Cabal of Lanka-haters) had two grand aims – firstly, the destruction of MR and his support base and, secondly, the installation of a compliant puppet-state with that great lover of Western Imperialism \u2013 Ranil Wickremesinghe\u2013as the overall boss.<\/p>\n

The ensuing political warfare \u2013 at least in its initial stages – was publicly paraded as a moral crusade against the rampant evil of corruption with MR condemned as the fountainhead of this pervasive evil. To the great credit of all concerned no blood was shed. In this \u2018war\u2019 engineered with great skill by the UNP and its allies the first aim was triumphantly accomplished by the forces led by RW.<\/p>\n

A champion of nationalism, the slayer of the Tyrant Prabhakaran and mighty builder in the ancient tradition of SriLanka was brought down by the lies and deceits of a political movement that caught on like an epidemic fever and laid low a once proud and seemingly invincible leadership.<\/p>\n

A group of political leaders with no vision except a visceral hatred of MR and a publicly paraded love of the all things Western took over from MR and sought valiantly to consolidate power through tactics reminiscent of the famous Trojan Horse.<\/p>\n

What was a naked power-grab was hailed as a sublime victory for justice and good governance (yahapalanaya). This strategy \u2013 let us call it Part One – worked wondrously well. A group of about 40 MPs in a House that had at least three times this number of supposedly MR loyalists – wrested power from the majority through the magic of declaring the defeater of MR as the President of the SLFP and thereby annulling all affiliations with the former leader. The new President was A \u2018creation\u2019 of the UNP and his politics was Anti-MR while he claimed Leadership of a party that was defeated through his own strange shenanigans.<\/p>\n

This high-level farce made RW of the UNP the ALL-Powerful Leader of a Parliament thrown on its back with the Usurper not only calling the shots but also throwing in Jail leading lights of the previous regime. Such extraordinary power-play is necessarily short-lived. RW\u2019s political blitzkrieg entailed a new Parliament with the UNP and its feisty boss as the questionable leader of SriLanka – hence the urgent clamour for fresh elections after the Hundred Day Offensive.<\/p>\n

Each day that passes weakens the UNPs political \u2018gamesmanship’ \u2013 the force of its bogus claims to political \u2018cleanliness\u2019. As the MR \u2018rump\u2019 in parliament knows this fatal weakness it will do all it can to prevent early elections and Part Two of the Grand Strategy of the UNP will fail dismally. They (the UNP) will be trounced at the next parliamentary election and the mighty interlopers will bite the dust as a fitting finale for an extraordinary – but short-lived \u2013 political adventure.<\/p>\n

R Chandrasoma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

R Chandrasoma\u00a0Courtesy Island In the historic defeat of MR, the strategists of the UNP (backed enthusiastically by an International Cabal of Lanka-haters) had two grand aims – firstly, the destruction of MR and his support base and, secondly, the installation of a compliant puppet-state with that great lover of Western Imperialism \u2013 Ranil Wickremesinghe\u2013as the […]<\/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-44179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44179","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=44179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}