{"id":45251,"date":"2015-07-04T14:22:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T21:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=45251"},"modified":"2015-07-04T14:22:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T21:22:58","slug":"upfa-nomination-to-president-mahinda-rajapakse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/04\/upfa-nomination-to-president-mahinda-rajapakse\/","title":{"rendered":"UPFA NOMINATION TO PRESIDENT MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE –"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

President Mahinda Rajapakse did not apply to UPFA OR SLFP seeking nominations. The UPFA\/SLFP nominations have already been closed.\u00a0 Few days after the closing date for receiving applications for nominations, a person who did not apply has been offered nomination! <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0This is quite puzzling.\u00a0 What was the motive behind this U turn by the President Maithreepala Sirisena?<\/p>\n

After receiving the letter of offer from Mr Susil Premajayantha, the MR team should not have accepted it immediately.\u00a0 Instead it should have asked for the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. to appoint Mr Mahinda Rajapakse as the Chairman of UPFA. This would mean the President Maithreepala should resign from the role;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    2.to appoint Mr Mahinda Rajapakse as the Head of the UPFA nomination board;<\/p>\n

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    1. to nominate Mr Mahinda Rajapakse as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the UPFA and assure that he or anyone else will be appointed as the Prime Minister after the election, in consistent with the provisions of constitution;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      If all or some of above points were addressed, then the authenticity of the offer could have been validated.<\/p>\n

      The letter from the UPFA General Secretary was silent on all of above issues.\u00a0 In fact, it is a master mind action plan to salvage SLFP from total obliteration in the hands of President Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

      It is also questionable whether the letter of the UPFA General Secretary is a legally enforceable document.\u00a0 There is nothing to prevent a legal challenge or to obtain a restraining order just few days before the closing date of nominations, preventing Mahinda Team from contesting the election.\u00a0 What safeguards have they taken to mitigate any such risks?<\/strong><\/p>\n

      The following announcement states that :”as discussed during the leadership meeting of the UPFA, it has been decided to\u00a0 give nomination for Mr Mahinda Rajapakse for the forthcoming general election”.<\/p>\n

      \"pravrthi\"<\/a><\/p>\n

      The facts are: 1.MR did not apply before or after the closing date of nominations; 2.MR was not present at the UPFA leadership meeting held on 2nd July; 3. Letter did not request an acceptance of the offer from MR which means it tantamount to an “open ended offer” that can be withdrawn at any time even after acceptance, due to the absence of a legally enforceable Deed signed between the parties; 4. Letter did not mention that the offer is unequivocal<\/strong><\/em> and binding on both parties.<\/p>\n

      So far neither MR nor MS\u00a0 made any comments.\u00a0\u00a0 On 26 June, there were media reports that a secret meeting had taken place between MR and\u00a0 MS at the official residence of the Speaker.\u00a0 This was denied, later it was revealed that the meeting did take place at the President’s residence at Wijerama Mawatha.<\/p>\n

      We all believe that this meeting sealed a deal\u00a0 ( or a DEED addressing the key issues) between MR\u00a0 and MS, consequently\u00a0 the release of the UPFA announcement confirming the nomination. Perhaps this could be a facing saving strategy\u00a0 for MS, to prevent massive backlash against him.<\/p>\n

      We all hope that President Mahinda Rajapakse had accepted the offer based on an agreement\u00a0 reached with the President on 26 June, the contents of which still not in the public domain.<\/p>\n

      We trust that President Mahinda Rajapakse had evaluated pros and cons and reached an agreement that will pave way for victory for Sri Lanka at the next election.\u00a0 His Plan B must still be on top of his Agenda until the closing date for nominations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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      By M D P DISSANAYAKE President Mahinda Rajapakse did not apply to UPFA OR SLFP seeking nominations. The UPFA\/SLFP nominations have already been closed.\u00a0 Few days after the closing date for receiving applications for nominations, a person who did not apply has been offered nomination! \u00a0\u00a0This is quite puzzling.\u00a0 What was the motive behind this […]<\/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-45251","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\/45251","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=45251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}