{"id":45641,"date":"2015-07-13T02:55:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T09:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=45641"},"modified":"2015-07-13T02:55:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T09:55:06","slug":"some-suggestions-for-mahinda-rajapaksa-and-his-party-to-ensure-a-resounding-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/13\/some-suggestions-for-mahinda-rajapaksa-and-his-party-to-ensure-a-resounding-election-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Suggestions for Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Party to Ensure a Resounding Election Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Daya M. from Australia<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Mahinda and his supporters should consider the following suggestions in drafting their Election Manifesto:<\/p>\n<p>The following recommendations, if promised to implement in the next term of government, will ensure a resounding victory for UPFA at the coming election:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As suggested by the veteran Tamil politician Dr. Anandasangaree some months ago, the Tamil ethnic problem, as well as the Muslim problem, can be solved easily by enshrining a <strong>bill of rights<\/strong> in the constitution which guarantees equal rights to every citizen of Sri Lanka irrespective of religion, race, caste or gender.<\/li>\n<li>Promise to bring in anti-discrimination legislation criminalising discrimination based on religion, race, caste or gender. Australian anti-discrimination legislation can be copied and hence, western countries and human rights advocates will become powerless to criticise Sri Lanka. Then the Tamil politicians will have no legs to stand on.<\/li>\n<li>Promise to appoint an independent and powerful commission to oversee this legislation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Promise to get rid of the 13<sup>th<\/sup> amendment and abolish the Provincial Council system, which then becomes superfluous. The demands of Tamils for devolution of power to provinces and the colossal waste of money and corruption due to provincial councils can be eliminated.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>With the money saved from abolishing the provincial councils higher salaries can be promised to public servants, including teachers.<\/li>\n<li>Promise the voting public that a new constitution amendment will be enacted incorporating the anti-discrimination legislation while abolishing the 13<sup>th<\/sup> amendment.<\/li>\n<li>Also promise to enact the 20<sup>th<\/sup> amendment which got stalled during the last Parliament.<\/li>\n<li>Promise to uphold law and order impartially (unlike the UNP), run a clean administration and not repeat the mistakes of the past of not keeping a tight reign on some errant members of the party.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If these recommendations are followed and forcefully communicated to the voters, MR and UPFA will win the election by a thumping majority. I earnestly hope that someone in MR\u2019s camp of UPFA will read this and convey the message to MR and the members of his inner circle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daya M. from Australia Mahinda and his supporters should consider the following suggestions in drafting their Election Manifesto: The following recommendations, if promised to implement in the next term of government, will ensure a resounding victory for UPFA at the coming election: As suggested by the veteran Tamil politician Dr. Anandasangaree some months ago, the [&hellip;]<\/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-45641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45641","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=45641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}