{"id":46843,"date":"2015-08-12T02:48:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T09:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=46843"},"modified":"2015-08-12T02:51:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T09:51:15","slug":"cant-say-cant-rosy-sings-alleluia-to-born-again-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/12\/cant-say-cant-rosy-sings-alleluia-to-born-again-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t- say-\u201ccan\u2019t\u201d Rosy sings alleluia to born-again regime"},"content":{"rendered":"

H. L. D. Mahindapala<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Rosy Senanayake boasts, beating her own tom-tom, that she never can say can\u2019t\u201d. That word is never in her vocabulary, she says. Any woman who can\u2019t says can\u2019t\u201d is bound to end up in all sorts of trouble. Obviously, she must be like the proverbial hitha-honda ghani\u201d who is always pregnant.\u00a0 Most\u00a0 likely these poor things are bound to up in the maternity ward singing : I should have danced all night!\u201d In fact, at one point she claims that she had delivered within 100 days more than any other competitor in the field. She displays her come-on-onah-ekek\u201d attitude in her latest interview with the Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em>. In it there is no end to her macho politics.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s fair enough. This\u00a0 is election time\u00a0 and as there is no one else to talk for Rosy Senanayake she has a right to write some advertisements to give a glossy veneer to her heavily painted cosmetics. Constantly pulling her sari pota<\/strong><\/em> nervously to keep both shoulders covered, she announced that only born-again Ranil Wickremesinghe, her new found lord after ditching Sajith Premadasa, can perform the miracle of running an oligarchy disguised as a democracy. To sum\u00a0 up she says: Can you find anyone else like me \u2013 me \u2013 me — who can talk about me delivering all the\u00a0 great things that no one has delivered before me, eh?She has all the characteristics of a loud-mouthed evangelist from the pop Christian cults in the American Bible Belt but not the quiet depth that inheres in profound Christian theology. Her brand of Christianity was typified by Burt Lancaster in his role as Elmer Gantry, a tour de force, marketing pop Christianity in the film classic of that name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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She brings that evangelical marketing techniques to her politics. She must be excused. As she says, after 28 years in the UNP, of which 21 has been in the Opposition with her failed guru, Ranil Wickremesinghe, the time has come to go forth and tell the world the great wonders she\u00a0 and the 100-day\u201d oligarchy had achieved. So she declares :\u00a0 I think no government has delivered what we have delivered in 100 days\u201d.<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0 Alleluia! Praise my lord Wickremesinghe, who art in the FCID (Fascist Centre for Indicting Dissidents),\u00a0 she says.\u00a0 Alleluia!<\/p>\n

Apart from praising her lord who is in the FCID,\u00a0 she told the Daily Mirror<\/em><\/strong> that one spoon of\u00a0 honey with breakfast is good for the day. Her boast of performing\u00a0 wonders\u00a0 within 100 days which no other government has done could be possibly due to the rush of blood caused by her taking more than one\u00a0 spoon of honey for breakfast on the day she gave her\u00a0 interview.<\/p>\n

Anyway, let\u2019s tick one by one the deliveries\u201d made within 100 days by Wicky-Siri oligarchy which she praises as a unique achievement. I must confess that her accuracy is impeccable. Here\u2019s the list of achievements which she forgot\u00a0 to mention :<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. No government in known history has caused the biggest banking scandal within 100 days.<\/li>\n
  2. No government has\u00a0 imported a foreigner and handed over the Central Bank for him to gift a dowry of Rs. 420 million to his daughter, through his\u00a0 son-in-law who was a registered bond\u00a0 dealer with the Central Bank at the time.<\/li>\n
  3. No Prime Minister has been a part of\u00a0 the bond\u00a0 scandal at the time the deal was pushed through.<\/li>\n
  4. And when the scandal was exposed by a Parliamentary Committee no government rushed to censor the publication of its findings.<\/li>\n
  5. No government promised to clean up the nation within 100 days and failed to do so even after six months.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If nothing else, these five deliveries \/ achievements\u201d alone are sufficient to confirm that the born-again Rosy Senanayake\u2019s 100-day\u201d oligarchy has broken all records. But let\u2019s not stop at\u00a0 that. Let\u2019s go further to consider the deliveries \/achievements\u201d of her oligarchy :<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. No sensible leader had promised to deliver the ideal society\u201d (Ranil\u2019s manifesto) within 100 days and failed, as promised, to stop corruption (new contracts for road construction on a corrupt deals exposed by Rajiva Wijesinha) cronyism (example: Wickremesinghe appoints his pet MP, Sagala Ratnayake\u2019s brother as Chairman of Lake House) and nepotism (example : President Sirisena appointing his brother to head the Telecom).<\/li>\n
    2. No government before\u00a0 has cut\u00a0 down plans\u00a0 of constructing three-lane\u00a0 highways to two and accused the\u00a0 previous regime of producing costly highways.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      8.. No government has nominated corrupt and not-so-clean NGO wallahs to a Constitutional Council which is meant to keep the administration clean with the appointment of Mr and Ms, Cleans.<\/p>\n

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      1. No government has appointed cronies and classmates to diplomatic posts after promising to keep 80% for career diplomats<\/li>\n
      2. No government has appointed a new Police wing, (a.k.a. FCID ) without the approval of\u00a0 Parliament, to summon and persecute political opponents within the first weeks, with Rosy\u2019s lord, Wickremesinghe, (Alleluia! ) presiding over it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        11, No head of government went to London to visit the Queen and shook her bare hands hand without gloves. Wow! What an achievement for Rosy within 100 days, eh? Alleluia!<\/p>\n

        Not satisfied with singing\u00a0 the praises of\u00a0 her lord, Wickremesinghe, she has rushed to include the President. Maithripala Sirisena too in her amazing 100-day government\u201d.<\/p>\n

        She says that there has not been a better combination of leaders than in this Yahapalanaya<\/strong><\/em>. Obviously, she has not seen double bullock carts going up Haputale hill drawn by breathless twin bulls!<\/p>\n

        But consider the following :<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        1. No government ran an oligarchy with a nominated \u2013 not elected \u2013 prime minister for six months after promising to hold elections within 100 days. Praise, Rosy\u2019s lord (Wickremesinghe) and her master (Sirisena) for running\u00a0 this unique oligarchy in the name of\u00a0 democracy!<\/li>\n
        2. The twins have functioned so effectively that when one gives the order to clean up the administration the other ignores it. In the words of Sirisena, when\u00a0 he asked Wickremesinghe to get rid of the Governor of the Central Bank he virtually asked Sirisena to fly a kite. Aren\u2019t the double bullock carts going up Haputale\u00a0 hill better managed than the twins running Yahapalanaya,<\/strong><\/em> with one sacking\u00a0 the governor and the other keeping him, eh?<\/li>\n
        3. Both of them jointly steered the Titanic\u201d, in the words of Sirisena. Though Sirisena claims that he saved it from\u00a0 sinking there has\u00a0 been no record of any one of the Titanics being saved.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Thais means Rosy too is going down in Wicky-Siri\u2019s Titanic. Alleluia!<\/p>\n

          She is now presiding over press conference and singing : <\/strong>Nawa gilunath band chune<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

          Alleluia! Alleluia!<\/p>\n

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          H. L. D. Mahindapala Rosy Senanayake boasts, beating her own tom-tom, that she never can say can\u2019t\u201d. That word is never in her vocabulary, she says. Any woman who can\u2019t says can\u2019t\u201d is bound to end up in all sorts of trouble. Obviously, she must be like the proverbial hitha-honda ghani\u201d who is always pregnant.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46843","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=46843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}