{"id":45272,"date":"2015-07-05T12:44:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T18:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=45272"},"modified":"2015-07-05T05:41:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T12:41:14","slug":"jhu-crumbling-under-pressure-and-will-it-be-decimated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/05\/jhu-crumbling-under-pressure-and-will-it-be-decimated\/","title":{"rendered":"JHU CRUMBLING UNDER PRESSURE AND WILL IT BE DECIMATED?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The decision of President Maithreepala Sirisena\u00a0 to grant nomination from the SLFP and UPFA\u00a0 to President Mahinda Rajapakse has further marginalised the Sinhala minor political parties in Sri Lanka, specifically the JHU.\u00a0 The JHU strongman\u00a0 Mr Patali Champaka Ranawaka has suddenly got a high voltage electrical shock.<\/p>\n

The crisis within the JHU is continuing.\u00a0 Originally formed as “Sinhala Urumaya” and contested as a single unit in 2005 general election, securing 5.97% of the votes or securing 9 seats out of 225 in the house of representatives. Subsequently it contested under UPFA.<\/p>\n

At the initial stage of the formation of Sinhala Urumaya, there was a key factor for winning 5.97% at the election.\u00a0 It was the sudden death of Gangodawila Soma Thero, one of most respected, religious Buddhist Monks in Sri Lanka in modern history.\u00a0 Venerable Soma Thero made an emotional speech in Kandy few days before his untimely death.\u00a0 He said “There is a conspiracy to murder me. If my murder can awake Sinhalaya, I am happy to die. After my death, there will be another team of monks to contest the elections. Please help them on my behalf<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

The death of Venerable\u00a0 Soma Thero was a blessing in disguise for Sinhala Urumaya which had a team of colourful clergy in the island, viz. Kolonnawe Sumangala Thero, Uduwe Dhammaloka Thero, Ellawela Medhananda Thero, Dr. Omalpe Sobhitha Thero, and Athuraliye Ratana Thero.\u00a0 Patali Champaka was an unknown quantity ( yet to complete requirements for the full professional\u00a0 membership of the Institute of Electrical Engineers in Sri Lanka) was a potential future leader.\u00a0 He started his career in politics with the JVP, and then formed Jathika Chinthana Foundation which created political uprising in the country to some extent.\u00a0 Excited by the emergence of a new boy in the Town, the UNP government arrested Patali\u00a0 and detained\u00a0 him.\u00a0\u00a0 After the release he then formed Janatha Mithuro, before joining Sinhala Urumaya.<\/p>\n

The JHU capitalised the death of Ven Soma Thero and emotional Buddhist masses to its advantage. The Sihala Urumaya was opportunistic and used the rumours surrounding the death of Soma Thero on an anti-Christian political platform.\u00a0\u00a0 Largely based on allegations of unethical conversions into Christianity, the Sinhala Urumaya carried out a massive poster campaign exploiting the death of Soma Thero, we publish one of the popular posters below:<\/p>\n

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

Now there is no more Soma Thero factor<\/strong>.\u00a0 President Mahinda Rajapakse removed Patali Champaka Ranawaka from the cabinet, mainly based on unfavourable reports received from the management and the\u00a0 workers of the Ceylon Electricity Board against the Minster Patali.\u00a0 It is alleged that he is a\u00a0 big headed man with a big mouth unable to work with others and a very poor listener.<\/strong> During last Presidential Election he went behind the Cocktail Prime Minister Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe.\u00a0 He did promise a new formula for Fuel Pricing within 30 days, now reduced to a level of a caretaker Minister his promised formula has still not been made public.<\/p>\n

Mr Rauf Hakeen recently complained of a certain Minister of UPFA aspiring to be future President, constantly obstructing the minority views.\u00a0 He was referring to none other than Patali.<\/p>\n

JHU has lost one of potential leaders, viz. Mr Udaya Gammanpila.\u00a0 JHU has now changed its name to United Governance National Front and had left the UPFA.\u00a0 Ven. Athuraliya Rathna Thero is on the fence right at this moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We challenge the\u00a0\u00a0 JHU or the new UGNF to contest alone at the upcoming general election as they did in 2005.\u00a0 Can they secure 5.97% of votes\u00a0 now in 2015?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY M D P DISSANAYAKE The decision of President Maithreepala Sirisena\u00a0 to grant nomination from the SLFP and UPFA\u00a0 to President Mahinda Rajapakse has further marginalised the Sinhala minor political parties in Sri Lanka, specifically the JHU.\u00a0 The JHU strongman\u00a0 Mr Patali Champaka Ranawaka has suddenly got a high voltage electrical shock. The crisis within […]<\/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-45272","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\/45272","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=45272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}