{"id":47083,"date":"2015-08-16T14:46:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T21:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=47083"},"modified":"2015-08-16T14:46:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T21:46:34","slug":"as-the-president-is-from-upfa-the-pm-too-must-be-from-upfa-to-ensure-political-stability-a-vote-for-unp-is-a-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/16\/as-the-president-is-from-upfa-the-pm-too-must-be-from-upfa-to-ensure-political-stability-a-vote-for-unp-is-a-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"As the President is from UPFA, the PM Too Must Be from UPFA to Ensure Political Stability \u2013 a Vote for UNP is a Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Previously no less than four (4) honeymoons between these actors ended in misery. UPFA Sirisena round hole does not fit UNP square peg. History shows the only stable governments are where the president and the PM are from the same party. A vote for the UNP is a waste. If UNP wins, its administration will again collapse within 200 days forcing fresh elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sirisena is Chandrika\u2019s man. Started his political career in the office of Anura Bandaranaike in the 1970s, Sirisena is a very loyal worker of the Bandaranaikes. Upon his suspension by Anura in early 1980s, he managed to get a job at the family library of Sirima Bandaranaike. He will not go against Chandrika in anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If UNP voters and leaders think they can make use of Chandrika\u2019s antagonism with Mahinda to their advantage, they are sadly mistaken. Chandrika has her own agenda which she executes through Sirisena. She is with the UNP only to the extent of getting rid of Mahinda. Thereafter, it will be \u2018business as usual\u2019. UNP is just a toilet tissue for Chandrika in her charge towards power again through proxy. Once used, it is of no worth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since August 17, 1994 until November 8, 1994 Chandrika worked closely with Ranil to dislodge DB Wijetunga and defeat Gamini Dissanayaka. Having achieved it, she shed the UNP like a toilet tissue. Faced with a nationwide crisis in 2000 due to Tamil terrorist attacks, she extended her hand to Ranil only to ridicule him and dump him eight months later. Chandrika agreed to help UNP and Ranil over the \u2018peace process\u2019 in 2002 but the moment she saw the tide was turning she sacked the UNP from power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">UNP is walking into the Chandrika-Sirisena den if it wishes to form a government under them. At the end of their adventure, UNP will be in pieces. If voters wish to avoid yet another election in months and resultant political instability, refrain from voting for the UNP.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara Previously no less than four (4) honeymoons between these actors ended in misery. UPFA Sirisena round hole does not fit UNP square peg. History shows the only stable governments are where the president and the PM are from the same party. A vote for the UNP is a waste. If UNP wins, its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47083","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=47083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}