{"id":45417,"date":"2015-07-08T22:36:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T04:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=45417"},"modified":"2015-07-08T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T22:36:00","slug":"plan-b-part-2-to-be-activated-president-mahinda-rajapakse-from-kurunegala-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/08\/plan-b-part-2-to-be-activated-president-mahinda-rajapakse-from-kurunegala-others\/","title":{"rendered":"PLAN B\u00a0 (Part 2 ) TO BE ACTIVATED- PRESIDENT MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE FROM KURUNEGALA, OTHERS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The Mahinda Rajapakse factor is having a disastrous impact on the UNP and the corrupt groups of SLFP.\u00a0\u00a0 The SLFP realizing the defeat into the 3rd place at the election, it\u00a0 is trying to use the name of Mahinda Rajapakse to salvage the sagging fortunes.<\/p>\n

MR has not been given the authority by MS to lead the campaign.\u00a0\u00a0 This means MR is free to support any other group, outside Kurunegala.\u00a0\u00a0 The current thinking in the MR camp circles revolves around fielding all candidates of the MR camp list under a different Alliance to be supported by MR. This will isolate the SLFP candidates who will not be able to be benefitted from MR factor, as MR will be campaigning in support of his own Alliance outside Kurunegala<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It will also create a positive image for MR team, where every voter in support MR will be given an opportunity to direct its preferential vote to MR team candidate in each District as they can be directly identified as against President Sirisena’s men and women.<\/strong> Of course there will be a split in votes, but it will be a direct fight between MR Alliance and SLFP\/UPFA in all districts, barring Kurunegala.\u00a0 This stragegy will provide a great opportunity to the masses to eliminate Messrs Rajitha Senaratne, S B Dissanayake, Arjuna Ranatunaga, Mervyn Silva, Wimuni Soyza etc. from the political map.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the other side of the coin, this strategy will also give an opportunity to the voters to reject the likes of Messrs Patali Champika Ranawaka, Anura Kumara Dissanayake,\u00a0 Sarath Fonseka , Upul\u00a0 Shantha Sannasgala, (Mr One Shot) Ranjan Ramanayake, Akila Wiraj Kariyawasam, Ravi Karunanayake.<\/p>\n

By fielding popular Muslim candidates in the relevant Districts by MR list candidates, a direct challenge can be mounted against the likes of Mr Rauf Hakeen and SLMC.\u00a0 MR camp must be able to field a commanding Tamil candidate aimed at defeating\u00a0 Mano Ganesan, a political weed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It will be left open to the likes of Messrs Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, D M Jayaratne whether to contest with MS or MR Alliance.\u00a0 The other option will be to leave politics altogether.<\/p>\n

It has been revealed that President Maithreepala Sirisena’s hold on UPFA and SLFP will be short-lived<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 He is currently leading both UPFA and SLFP by virtue of the fact that he is the Chairperson of the SLFP, the main constituent party of the UPFA.\u00a0 However, in view of the fact that MS did not contest the Presidential Election as a Member of the SLFP, under the SLFP constitution he is not entitled to be the Chairperson.\u00a0 As MR is contesting under SLFP\/UPFA ticket, he will be\u00a0 entitled to take control of SLFP, and consequently the UPFA, after a successful legal challenge against MS or by majority vote at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the SLFP after\u00a0 the general election.<\/p>\n

In the campaign hustings, it will be apparent that the MR list candidates will be able to garner massive ground support against the UNP and SLFP candidates<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 The main backup plan for\u00a0 all MR\u00a0 candidates, including MR himself contesting under the new Alliance is very much on top of the Agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The Mahinda Rajapakse factor is having a disastrous impact on the UNP and the corrupt groups of SLFP.\u00a0\u00a0 The SLFP realizing the defeat into the 3rd place at the election, it\u00a0 is trying to use the name of Mahinda Rajapakse to salvage the sagging fortunes. MR has not been given […]<\/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-45417","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\/45417","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=45417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}