{"id":50149,"date":"2015-12-12T00:21:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T06:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=50149"},"modified":"2015-12-11T13:31:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T20:31:22","slug":"sirisena-wicramasinghe-and-a-money-launderers-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/12\/12\/sirisena-wicramasinghe-and-a-money-launderers-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirisena, Wicramasinghe and a money launderer\u2019s Budget."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The Budget Presented to the Parliament by the Finance Minister of Yahapalanaya is a complete sellout of Sri Lanka to Foreigners. The Budget is now in Committee stage in the Parliament. The SLFP Parliamentarians who have accepted Ministries should give them up and join rank with the UPFA rather than betray the country and the people who voted for them. The President Sirisena is not the country, therefore the loyalty to the country is greater than the loyalty to the President Sirisena.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this Parliament of today controlled by the yahapalanaya Ranil Wickramasinghe the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka behaves like a clown. He calls the Members of the Parliament by all types of names \u2013pimps, gypsies, donkeys, beggars and monkeys.\u00a0 He likes to laugh at his own clowning.\u00a0 Ranil does not seem to understand that his fashion of behaviour in the Parliament is not in keeping with the position he holds as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

As a Prime Minister he should have patience, controlled temper and wise, intelligent repartees.\u00a0 It is not his coat and tie that make him respectable but the way he behaves and speaks.\u00a0 He should not speak hatefully of the former President who was a great leader, and Ranil should speak more respectfully when he refers to him.<\/p>\n

The latest clowning of Ranil was when he called the parliamentarians criticising the Budget card board\u201d patriots.\u00a0 All these insults to the representatives of the people in Parliament are indirect insults to the people of the country.\u00a0 This shows to what extent the PM does not care either the Parliamentarians nor the people of the country .\u00a0 Ranil Wickramasinghe the Prime Minister has become a law unto himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Unfortunately Ranil Wickramasinghe is a man without a vision, a disadvantage to a man expected to decide on the destiny of a nation. His policy statement\u00a0 is not different from that which he had presented in\u00a0 2004. Some right wing intellectuals\u201d point out that the Budget present by Ravi Karunanayake contradicts Prime Minister\u2019s policy statement. Ranil Wickramasinghe often makes strange promises. In some of his earlier election campaigns he promised gold chains and bracelets\u00a0 to young people if he was elected and recently he said he will make the farmers wear jeans.\u00a0 It also \u00a0shows the extent to which Ranil Wickramasinhe\u2019s \u00a0mind is warped\u00a0 and West oriented.<\/p>\n

This is the man that calls representatives of the people in Parliament \u00a0cardboard patriots\u201d because they are defending Sri Lanka against \u00a0the yahapalana\u00a0 political leadership of archaic mentality who has joined hands with the West to destroy Sri Lanka that had remained a unitary state with a Buddhist culture for over 2500 years,\u00a0 which had accepted other communities in good faith to share this land.<\/p>\n

Sirisena the President of Yahapalanaya, is the duplicate of the Prime Minister except for the clowning part. He lacks humour, because his mind is burning with jealousy and hatred. They\u00a0 speak of democracy but democracy left Sri Lanka on the 8th<\/sup> January,2015 when the democratic and the popular people\u2019s President was defeated at the Presidential election.<\/p>\n

From the day one of his election Sirisena the newly elected President broke all norms of democracy and \u00a0acted completely in breach of the Constitution of Sri Lanka. He reminds one of Musila of the Jataka story Guttila and Musila\u201d. Sirisena like Musila \u00a0has already broken the first few strings of the seven stringed violin, it remains few more strings to prove he is better than the master. He has played with all the seven strings so badly, there is no saying that he will do better with\u00a0 what remains.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sirisena\u2019s \u00a0swearing in of Ranil Wickramasinghe as his Prime Minister when there was already a Prime Minister\u00a0 was his blundering entry into the high office of President which marked his incompatibility. It was \u00a0a further distasteful confirmation of his indecent excessive greed for power for which he walked away stealthily like a thief in the night \u00a0back stabbing the leader of the political party that\u00a0 was the cradle of his political life to join hands with his political enemies to change the path of\u00a0 development and progress Sri Lanka was taking to divert it to a disastrous political abyss from which it will never be able to climb back.<\/p>\n

Beside Sirisena\u2019s incompetence he has allowed himself to be manipulated by scheming self ambitious\u00a0 Christians and ugly revengeful Western lackeys. Sirisena has joined hands with them, to\u00a0 sacrifice Sri Lanka to satisfy their ego.\u00a0 They are \u00a0taking the President\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapakse , his family, friends and all in some way connected to him to discredit them, label them corrupt and take them to courts or merely\u00a0 smear them with false accusations to take away the love and affection the grateful \u00a0people of Sri Lanka have for them.<\/p>\n

Hemantha Warnakulasuriya PC said in TV program Pethkada, that Mahinda Rajapakse was different after the elimination of terrorists, and that he took himself for a King.\u00a0 One can imagine the immense pride, great satisfaction,\u00a0 relief and happiness he had when\u00a0 the end of terrorism was announced to him. In a way one cannot blame the former president feeling like a King as he was the only political leader who was able to eliminate terrorism and bring whole of Sri Lanka\u00a0 under one flag , like King Dutugamunu who united the country after chasing away the Cholas who had occupied the then capital and the environment of Sri Lanka for nearly 25 years.<\/p>\n

In the same breath Warnakulasuriya said that JR Jayawardhana too\u00a0 acted like a King, when he became the\u00a0 President in 1978.\u00a0 But that was JR\u2019s egoism. JR had done\u00a0 nothing glorious\u00a0 to Sri Lanka to claim that right. He only made matters worse for Sri Lanka after\u00a0 his period of Presidency.\u00a0 Of course Hemantha Warnakulasuriya has to be careful not to praise Mahinda Rajapakse, lest he would be taken by Ranil Wickramasinghe\u2019s FCID for questioning and remanding.\u00a0 That is what Sri Lanka has become today after the pretended Yahapalanaya of Sirisena.\u00a0 People fear to speak the truth in respect of the former President.\u00a0 There is no democracy any more in Sri Lanka it is a dictatorship and a police state of Sirisena, Wickramasinghe and Chandrika.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka is going down the drain to disaster, but Ranil and his lackey Mangala send FCID after the former President or any one connected to the former government .\u00a0 That is the only thing Ranil seems to be doing, \u00a0all the rest are visionless ideas he had when he was Prime Minister last time in 2001-2004.<\/p>\n

It is better leave Chandrika without of comments, as one sees her boiling jealousy, anger and hatred in her distorted face, reminding one of the Goddess Kali of the Hindu pantheon of Gods. Chandrika claims nobility being a Bandaranaike, which may cause the skeletal remains of\u00a0 her dead parents rattle in their coffins.<\/p>\n

If Sirisena is a President who respects democracy and good governance, he should have stood aloof, independent and not interfering in political battles\u00a0 amoung political parties during the general election of August,2015.\u00a0 He should have known despite his treachery in leaving his own political party stealthily to join with the UNP, that once he is\u00a0 elected the President with the massive vote of the Tamils and Muslims he nevertheless, becomes the President of all the people in Sri Lanka and therefore he should remain independent, silent, non-interfering without taking sides with any community or a political party.<\/p>\n

But he did the opposite by doing all he could to insult, discredit, discourage and stop the political carrier of\u00a0 his former political party leader Mahinda Rajapakse\u00a0 in addition to \u00a0the wounds he inflicted on him the day he walked away in the night like a rogue to give himself up to Ranil Wickramasinghe, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Champika Ranawaka and Mangala Samaraweera, to make of him a President of the reactionary forces, his political enemies.<\/p>\n

Venerable Maduluwawe Sobhitha thero, when he saw how what he expected of Sirisena and the united force he helped to build against the former President had been distorted and was selling Sri Lanka to foreign forces, he spoke against it.\u00a0 Sirisena and Ranil Wickramasinghe saw the danger Venerable Sobitha posed\u00a0 to their \u00a0Yahapalanaya. The venerable Bikkhu who was taken suddenly ill was packed off to a hospital in Singapore from where he never returned alive.\u00a0 Some say the same thing happened to another venerable monk who wanted reforms \u2013 the Late Venerable Soma Thero.<\/p>\n

Sirisena was sure that Mahinda Rajapakse will win\u00a0 at the general election on the 17 August,2015. He therefore had to forget that he was the President of Sri Lanka\u00a0 before he became the President of the SLFP and the UPFA, and began doing all he could to stop Mahinda Rajapakse win at the elections.\u00a0 Sirisena announced to Mahinda Rajapakse that he as the President will not\u00a0 make him the Prime Minister even if he wins at the election, and named some members of the UPFA who are suitable to be appointed as \u00a0Prime Minister.\u00a0 Then on the eve of the General elections he sacked the General Secretaries of the SLFP and UPFA and appointed two of his lackeys in their place.<\/p>\n

Can all those actions of Sirisena the President of Sri Lanka be called democratic or a mark of good governance ?\u00a0 Naturally the anti Sri Lanka foreign governments applaud his Presidency as democratic and proof of good governance, but the people in the villages\u00a0 do not acclaim him as such.\u00a0 But they are unable to change things as democracy has been taken away from them and a police state installed with the connivance of the Western Governments.<\/p>\n

Yahapalanaya is\u00a0 a government like the caravan that goes on\u00a0 however much the dogs bark.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All\u00a0 Sirisena \u00a0did was \u00a0with the one intention of\u00a0 making UNP leader Ranil Wickramasinghe the member of the Mont Pelerin Society, \u00a0the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka as it was he who took him out of the political shadow into lime light of politics.<\/p>\n

The ego centred SLFP Parliamentarians who have joined hands with the visionless UNP\u00a0 do not see, \u00a0in their greed\u00a0 to hold onto Ministries and to keep away from the feared\u00a0 Ranil Wickramasinghe\u2019s FCID, \u00a0are becoming a part of the UNP plan, (to destabilise Sri Lanka which had been brought out of the clutches of terrorism and developed to be a middle income country), to handover \u00a0Sri Lanka to the USA and the West to make it once again a dependent country. In that effort Yahapalanaya goons have distanced Sri Lanka from China and embraced India and the West. UK has prome<\/p>\n

Yahapalanaya in the eyes of Maithripala Sirisena is making speeches and meeting \u00a0great white personalities of the world and shake their un-gloved hands.\u00a0 He is happy with that , the dangers that come to Sri Lanka, from the actions taken by the Pelerin Ranil Wickramasinghe , Mangala Samaraweera and Ravi Karunanayake, \u00a0he\u00a0 is blissfully unaware.\u00a0 It is normal with a man despite having been a Minister of Health in Mahinda Rajapakse\u2019s government, whose knowledge of\u00a0 worldly matters\u00a0 is limited. He even thought the\u00a0 Buckingham Palace was in New York.\u00a0 He is happy with little things repeating before assembled gatherings\u00a0 his great achievement of shaking the un-gloved hand of the Queen.<\/p>\n

How can the Sri Lankan people expect good governance from this cabal led by Maithripala Sirisena ?<\/p>\n

It is those\u00a0 others rich and self interested Sinhala of the business community , self interested academics, perhaps the Catholics because the Church demanded their support for a UNP government, teachers who expected a Rs.10,000,00 increase to their basic salary , and others who wanted a change and the Tamils and Muslims the major contributors of vote for Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s victory at the Presidential election, and those others who \u00a0wanted a change from Mahinda Rajapakse led government, \u00a0having partly swallowed the rumours prepared for people\u2019s consumption by\u00a0 the experts of the American CIA, and those who fear being taken away by Ranil\u2019s FCID, that support Yahapalanaya directly or indirectly in silence.<\/p>\n

Ranil\u2019s FCID and accusation of former government culture \u00a0has become much worse than the White Van culture the Yahapalanaya Ministers often refer to making themselves knights in shining armor.\u00a0 Mont Pelerin Ranil Wickramasinghe is the agent of the USA, with his lackey Mangala Samaraweera all out to sell Sri Lanka to the West.<\/p>\n

Under the Yahapalanaya Government, Sri Lanka\u00a0 seems already occupied by the West. UK \u00a0offers 6 million UK pounds to upgrade Sri Lanka Armed Forces appointing UK Military Attach\u00e9 in New Delhi to\u00a0 overseer how the funds are used.\u00a0 Norway in the\u00a0 meantime is to send \u00a0an expert to help Sri Lanka in the preparation of a New constitution.<\/p>\n

Sirisena\u2019s Yahapalanaya is like the Marchal Petain\u2019s Vichy Government of France which collaborated with the Germans\u00a0 during their occupation of France. Mangala Samaraweera and Ranil Wickramasinghe sponsored at the Geneva UNHRCouncil the USA resolution against Sri Lanka<\/p>\n

Mangala Samaraweera said very proudly as a great achievement that 725 of the Rajapakse clan is under accusation by the Ranil\u2019s FCID.\u00a0 It is on that falsehood of corruption allegations the Yahapalanaya Government has built their pseudo democratic government and that for them is the \u00a0only means of \u00a0survival as a government and have the protection of the West.<\/p>\n

Mount Pelerin Ranil Wickramasinghe following the USA regime change instructions from the CIA and the USA Embassy in Sri Lanka tried all possible tricks of the trade to change the Rajapaksa Regimaya, with rumours of \u00a0White Van kidnappings, disappearance of journalists, killing of Lasantha\u00a0 Wickramatunga. It was all to accuse the Mahinda Rajapakse Government and make the people rise against it, like the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt. But the people of Sri Lanka saw through it and refused to rise against their beloved President Mahinda Rajapakse , Gotabhaya Rajpakse and the Rajapakse Government.<\/p>\n

USA thought\u00a0 Mount Pelerin Wickramasinghe lacked the intelligence to change Rajapakse regime despite their well thought out plans, with an on going resolution against Sri Lanka Armed Forces for violation of human rights and war crimes.\u00a0 Finally USA arranged to educate\u00a0 Pelerin Wickramasinghe in Regime Change Tactics.<\/p>\n

Ceylontoday of 9 April, 2014 reported\u00a0 in an article Harvard and Ranil: Worlds apart\u201d<\/p>\n

UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is reportedly on a study tour at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to learn the art of toppling governments. After his stint at the MIT, the Opposition Leader will head to Harvard University, one of the finest places of academic and research excellence, on a lecturing tour. That is at least what his acolytes at the UNP say\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026Nonetheless, Wickremesinghe needs to do some soul-searching during his stint at two great American universities. He could then see that he himself has been the main handicap for his own Party, the UNP\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026The good thing is that those MIT dons would realize that Ranil is the real obstacle and they could well suggest that he should step down from the Party leadership\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..As for the so-called invite extended to Ranil by Harvard, we have our reservations. This could very well be another gimmick by his spin doctors to hoodwink the gullible locals that Ranil is a sage, even sought after by the world’s greatest academia. Wickremesinghe should not fool himself believing that people will buy that silly joke.\u201d<\/p>\n

However Mont Pelerin Ranil Wickramasinghe came back from his\u00a0 stint in Masachusette Institute of Technology\u00a0 named as a Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow. He immediately announced his intention to contest at the next Presidential election.<\/p>\n

Now with a qualification from MIT, Pelerin Wickramasinghe\u00a0 changed his tactics to oust the Rajapakse Regime , accusing Mahinda Rajapakse making his government a family affair and accused him for corruption and bribing the LTTE\u00a0 Slowly this corruption theme against Mahinda Rajapakse and his family gained ground.\u00a0 Every member of the UNP leadership made refernce to Mahinda Rajapakse\u2019s corruption and enriching his family \u00a0and called\u00a0 it a one family government.<\/p>\n

Atlast CIA the Masachusette Institute of Technology andf Pelerin Ranil Wickramasinghe have all together found the solution for the hitherto unfound found solution for the regime change in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

They had learnt it from the World war two, \u2026<\/strong>Rumours are a perfect medium for unacknowledgeable clandestine propaganda and deception. They are incredibly hard to trace and near impossible to prove their origin; they can spread like the proverbial wildfire. There is no one in the world who does not relish passing on gossip or a titbit of “inside” information. Even in today’s news saturated world the populations of the Western democracies, who believe they are more enlightened and less gullible than ever before, still fall for the most ridiculous and often abhorrent conspiracy theories. \u2026..\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.psywar.org\/sibs.php<\/p>\n

Stories of Mahinda Rajapakse\u2019s corruption\u00a0 were heard from every speech made by leaders of the Opposion, \u00a0news reports, and TV political debates.\u00a0 No doubt after elimination of terrorism the President Rajapakse was able to get aid not in Millions but in billions, therefore that was easy to make people wonder whether with that amount of money flowing in could there be some truth in the rumours being spread by UNP and JVP about the corruption of the Rajapakse Government.\u00a0 People knew that Ravi Karunanayake, Karu Jayasuriaya all were enriched by small scale corruptions, and Ranil was accused of the Batalanda Torture camps, but yet the rumours of corruption against the President Mahinda Rajapakse continued \u00a0even the media swallowed it.\u00a0 This was, a psychological warfare.<\/p>\n

President Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s \u00a0victory over terrorism , bringing freedom and security, massive the infrastructure constructions, propelling the country to a middle income country status , became secondary to the rumours of corruption.\u00a0 This was partly responsible for the people of middle range intelligence as well to think of a change when the elections came around.<\/p>\n

President Mahinda Rajapakse or even\u00a0 his brothers leave alone other family members were certainly not corrupt. Rajapakse family was\u00a0 well known and they were a honest family. At the beginning the\u00a0 senior \u00a0members of the family took to politics at the demand of the people.\u00a0 Even Chamal Rajapakse was invited by Mrs.\u00a0 Sirimavo Bandaranayake to take to politics.\u00a0 But people like to smear dirt on people. And falsehood is readily accepted, casting doubt on\u00a0 truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though many accusations have been made against Rajapaksas and their contacts, for bribery and corruption nothing has been proved against any one of them. It is possible that FCID may plant evidence to take at least one of the Rajapakse\u2019s into custody. It would not be a surprise \u00a0when we think of the cruelty of the man behind the torture camps of Batalanda and constant reference to Rajapakse as the reason for all the failures of the Yahapalanaya Government.<\/p>\n

But if Mahinda Rajapakse misused funds how could he have \u00a0left behind such a developed country and a financially sound heritage six years after elimination of terrorism.\u00a0 People are not naive to believe these stories of corruption levelled against\u00a0 the former President and those who were close to him.\u00a0 People are happy with what\u00a0 Rajapaksas contributed for their security , freedom and for improving the quality of their lives.<\/p>\n

The Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake who is not unknown for financial corruption with the sale of Sathosa to a private party when he was in another Government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe. He had been accused for money laundering.\u00a0 But the case against him was decided in a strange manner.\u00a0 Please read on:<\/p>\n

The case was postponed by High Court Judge Devika de Livera Tennakoon when Defence Counsel Reinzie Arsekualaratne informed the judge that Minister Karunanayake was unable to be present before the Courts yesterday as he was due to present the 2015 interim budget before the parliament.\u00a0As there was no objection from the prosecution, the case was postponed to March 4.<\/p>\n

The Attorney General indicted Nexia Corporation, Linton Sirisoma and Karunanayake for allegedly facilitating money laundering in violation of Central bank regulations and the Exchange Control Act by depositing Rs. 390 million in a Standard Chartered bank account, which had been later used to purchase shares of the Union Bank. The transfer had been made by\u00a0Sri Lanka<\/a>n American billionaire and hedge fund dealer Raj Rajarathnam.<\/p>\n

During the hearings it was alleged that Karunanayake was directly involved in the fraud and that he intervened to collect the funds once the money was deposited in Sri Lanka<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Exchange Control is the function of the\u00a0Central Bank<\/a>. The Central Bank is governed by the Monetary Board. The Secretary\/Finance (Treasury) is a member of the Monetary Board. The Minister of Finance is the Boss of the Secretary\/Finance. How nice to have a person charged with Exchange Control crimes as Finance Minister a good governance activist told Colombo Telegraph.\u00a0\u201d<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.lankanewspapers.com\/news\/2015\/1\/92239_space.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The Attorney General indicted Karunanayake for allegedly facilitating money laundering in violation of Central Bank regulations and the Exchange Control Act by depositing Rs.390 million in a private bank account, which had been later used to purchase shares of another bank.<\/p>\n

While announcing the judgement judge stated that Attorney General Department is permitted to file another case on this matter.<\/p>\n

According to Judge Irangani, the decision was reached upon taking into consideration the objections raised by the lawyers of the defence with regard to anomalies in the indictment produced against Minister Ravi Karunanayake. Justice Perera also said that the Attorney General has the capability to file a case once again and that an appeal could also be filled by the AG, if the need arises.<\/p>\n

Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake spoke to the media following the court hearing, saying that the court case which was filed without any proper reason has proven futile. The minister also stated that while he is present at courts for the 27th time with his lawyers, the former defense secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is running away.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s judgement was also the final judgment handed down by justice Irangani Perera as she bid farewell to her service as a judge and retired following 31 years of service.<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.lankasrinews.com\/view.php?22eMC303lOS4e2BmAca25YKdd2Y5Bac2mBVe44Ol1023gA43<\/a><\/p>\n

Interesting isn\u2019t it ? There is no smoke without fire. What ever the judgement the readers\u00a0 could come to their own conclusion about the honesty of the Finance Miniter of the Yaha Palanaya Government.\u00a0 If one had watched some of the TV Political programs such\u00a0 as Derana 360\u201d, Satana\u201d or Salanakuna\u201d in which Ravi Karunanayake appeared, one would have seen how he responded to questions and \u00a0what an unreliable character he is, evading issues asking counter questions, giving evasive ambiguous answers.<\/p>\n

He has no compunction even if he is to\u00a0 sell Sri Lanka to foreigners or divide\u00a0 the island to allow the Tamils to have a separate State.\u00a0 In Sri Lanka every one speaks of his Tamil origin , now of course even the Wikipedia has made him a full blooded Roman Catholic Sinhala. But he behaves like a Tamil. He laughed at the Sri Lanka Armed Forces when they were engaged risking their lives to eliminate terrorism to bring peace and security to Sri Lanka. Whenever\u00a0 he\u00a0 refers to the former President he just calls him Rajapakse disrespectfully. A Buddhist Sinhala would refer to him more respectfully. He is a friend of Raj Rajaratnam who financed terrorist\u00a0 LTTE.<\/p>\n

The Governor of the Central Bank\u00a0 Arjuna Mahendra who is a friend of his is also a friend of Raj Rajaratnam.\u00a0 What part the Finance Minister played in the Bond scam is not known ? But no one speaks any more of the 2 billion loss\u00a0 in the Central Bank bond Scam and Arjuna Mahendra \u00a0the friend of the Finance Minister who was directly involved\u00a0 in it continues to be the Governor of the Central Bank.<\/p>\n

But theYahapalanaya cabal\u00a0 easily speaks of the corruption of Mahinda Rajapakse and how about speaking for a change of the corruption of Ravi Karunanayake and Ranil Wickramasinghe who may have profited from the 2 billion Rupees involved in the Bond scam. If they are honest they should \u00a0appoin another man as the \u00a0Governor of Central Bank.<\/p>\n

Ravi Karunanayake\u2019s Budget is a complete sell out of Sri Lanka to Foreigners.\u00a0 Whether the land is sold outright or\u00a0 given on 99 year lease amounts to the same.\u00a0 Generations of Sri Lankans will lose the use of these lands. Who has not heard of United Fruit Companies which shaped\u00a0 some of the countries \u00a0in Latin America where they implanted themselves, buying land on 99 year leases ?<\/p>\n

When the Banana Company arrives in Macondo, the jungle town in Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez\u2019s One Hundred Years of Solitude,\u201d it brings with it first modernity and then doom. Endowed with means that had been reserved for Divine Providence in former times,\u201d Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez writes, the company changed the pattern of the rains, accelerated the cycle of harvests and moved the river from where it had always been.\u201d It imported dictatorial foreigners\u201d and hired assassins with machetes\u201d to run the town; it unleashed a wave of bullets\u201d on striking workers in the plaza. When the Banana Company leaves, Macondo is in ruins.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka is courting danger in leasing out \u00a0large land areas of 5000 acres for foreigners on 99 year leases.\u00a0 The investors could completely change the culture and the minds of the people and bring in complete chaos into our country.<\/p>\n

The government encourages handing over public enterprises as well to private companies.\u00a0 They get loans from the West on conditions laid by the donor which would introduce more poverty. Sri Lanka should not be developed according to other countries. UNP cannot make Sri Lanka a Singapore or a Malaysia.\u00a0 The Yahapalanaya has begun to change Sri Lanka into a rich foreigners play ground as Cuba was under Batista.<\/p>\n

Aid from the West, IMF or World Bank come with conditions\u00a0 against welfare for the poor. Under these conditions of the IMF and the World Bank Yahapalanaya will hand over hospitals, schools, water, etc. to private companies.\u00a0 It would be a treachery against\u00a0 the people of Sri Lanka \u00a0for any Parliamentarian to\u00a0 vote in favour of this Budget.<\/p>\n

This Budget is capitalist flavoured. The ordinary people of the country will be\u00a0 made dependent on the rich.\u00a0 The government servants will have less or no pensions as\u00a0 government will have no sufficient income as the countries finances will be controlled by foreign companies, which will be the owners of land, public\u00a0 establishments, institutions. Welfare facilities to the people will be decided by the foreign companies.<\/p>\n

The Budget proposal of stopping pension rights and introducing a contributory pension system seems to be \u00a0dictated by the Western donor states. Stopping the distribution of clothes to school\u00a0 children , and providing fertilisers to farmers substituting it for voucher or \u00a0a cash allowance, may help Western investors to provide clothes and manure at their price to farmers and school children.<\/p>\n

If Mahinda Rajapaksa was the President today the country would have continued with development projects. There would have been a sound economic development. Only problem would have come from the reactionary West and America passing resolutions in Geneva threatening to take the Armed Forces to courts for war crimes. The President Mahinda Rajapakse would have been able to keep the TNA in its place and strengthened the Armed Forces and provided more security to the country. The Colombo Port city would have progressed. The Mahaseya in Anuradhapura \u00a0would have risen up to a respectable height. There would have been rich harvests.\u00a0 Mattala Air port may have begun to function with more planes landing in it. The people would have been happy. Mahinda Rajapakse may have reduced prices of consumer articles\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n

Yahapalanaya has made all that only a dream, the future of Sri Lanka is bleak\u2026..as one would have never expected a year before.<\/p>\n

The following members of the SLFP, if they have any self respect, and a modicum of patriotism should not vote for the Budget of Ravi Karunanayake and give up their Ministerial, Deputy Ministerial posts.\u00a0 It would otherwise be sacrificing the interest of the country to fulfil personal interest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cabinet Ministers<\/strong><\/p>\n

S.B. Nawinne – Minister of Labour and Labour Relations
\nA.H.M. Fowzie – Minister of Disaster Management
\nPiyasena Gamage – Minister of Skill Development and Vocational Training
\nDr. Sarath Amunugama – Minister of Research and Higher Education
\nS.B. Dissanayake – Minister of Rural Economic Affairs
\nJanaka Bandara Tennakoon – Minister of Provincial Councils and Regional Development
\nFelix Perera – Minister of Special Projects
\nMahinda Yapa Abeywardena – Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
\nReginald Cooray – Minister of Aviation Services
\nMahinda Amaraweera – Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
\nVijith Vijayamuni Soysa – Minister of Irrigation<\/p>\n

Ministers of State<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pavithra Wanniarachchi – State Minister of Environment
\nJeevan Kumaratunga – State Minister of Labour and Labour Relations
\nMahinda Samarasinghe – State Minister of Finance
\nC.B. Rathnayake – State Minister of Public Administration & Democratic Governance
\nDilan Perera – State Minister of Housing and Samurdhi<\/p>\n

Deputy Ministers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tissa Karaliyadda – Deputy Minister of Buddha Sasana & Democratic Governance
\nDayasritha Tissera – Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
\nRanjith Siyambalapitiya – Deputy Minister of Home Affairs
\nLakshman Seneviratne – Deputy Minister of Disaster Management
\nLakshman Yapa Abeywardena – Deputy Minister of Aviation Services
\nLalith Dissanayake – Deputy Minister of Irrigation
\nJagath Pushpakumara – Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries
\nLasantha Alagiyawanna – Deputy Minister of Rural Economic Affairs
\nSudarshani Fernandopulle – Deputy Minister of Research and Higher Education
\nShantha Bandara – Deputy Minister of Mass Media & Information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera The Budget Presented to the Parliament by the Finance Minister of Yahapalanaya is a complete sellout of Sri Lanka to Foreigners. The Budget is now in Committee stage in the Parliament. The SLFP Parliamentarians who have accepted Ministries should give them up and join rank with the UPFA rather than betray the country […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50149","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=50149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}