{"id":50833,"date":"2016-01-07T23:45:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T05:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=50833"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T21:58:57","slug":"has-the-yahapalana-government-delivered-to-the-sri-lankan-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/07\/has-the-yahapalana-government-delivered-to-the-sri-lankan-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the Yahapalana Government delivered to the Sri Lankan public?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Patriot<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Rajapakse Government was ousted from power on 9 January 2015. The dollar-pound-euro funded tarnishing anti-Rajapakse campaigns propelled by weaknesses and follies of the Rajapakse\u2019s themselves contributed to an unfortunate downfall. The replacement was Buddhist-quote chanting former gramasevaka who in turn made it possible for the record holding Opposition Leader to finally become the Prime Minister. If the people voted out Rajapakse\u2019s for bad governance, are those who voted for good governance satisfied with the yahapalana government\u2019s performance?<\/p>\n<p>The people placed trust, confidence and hope in the Yahapalana government. After one year lets see what they promised, the promises they broke and the catastrophes they have created far worse than what the Rajapakse\u2019s were accused of.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promise to keep cabinet to not more than 25 \u2013 broken<\/li>\n<li>Setting up of National Advisory Council \u2013 forgotten<\/li>\n<li>Abolition of the Executive Presidency \u2013 political talk only<\/li>\n<li>Code of Conduct for Parliamentarians \u2013 forgotten<\/li>\n<li>Salaries will be raised and direct and indirect taxes on necessary goods and services will be reduced \u2013 with the budget amended 16 times no one knows what the budget now looks like!<\/li>\n<li>Special Commission on Corruptions \u2013 omits all Yahapalana MPs who were formerly with Rajapakses!<\/li>\n<li>Good governance has meant appointing Finance Minister whose case was conveniently thrown out on a technicality by a retiring judge, Central Bank Governor appointed with connections to international money launderer and LTTE fundster Rajaratnam<\/li>\n<li>Good governance has been to appoint losing candidates as MPs and give them cabinet portfolios!<\/li>\n<li>Right to Information Bill was promised to be introduced within 3 weeks of coming to power in January \u2013 forgotten &amp; political talk only<\/li>\n<li>Promises made to farmers in the 100 day program \u2013 all broken<\/li>\n<li>New laws will be put in place to prevent abuse of women, abuse of children and sexual harassment of women and measures taken to ensure that women and children can live without fear in Sri Lanka \u2013 scores of lawlessness taken place since January 2015<\/li>\n<li>a programme to systematically eliminate the drug menace \u2013 Wele Suda\u2019s right hand man released<\/li>\n<li>Pictorial warnings with regard to the dangers of smoking will be increased to 80% &#8211; now women smokers have increased!<\/li>\n<li>Ethanol scam \u2013 all hot air only!<\/li>\n<li>A beautiful Colombo left by the former Defense Secretary has become a dirty dump and places like floating market has now turned into a brothel!<\/li>\n<li>set out to raise to 6% the current 1.7% allocated for free Education \u2013 forgotten<\/li>\n<li>We will put a stop to the incursions of foreign boats into our national waters \u2013 Indian fishermen still continue to poach on Sri Lanka\u2019s territorial waters<\/li>\n<li>Measures will be taken to preserve and protect archaeological sites \u2013 incursions and destruction to forest areas continue unabated<\/li>\n<li>Outlets for alcohol will be removed from the vicinity of places of religious worship including the Temple of the Tooth \u2013 forgotten<\/li>\n<li>Laws will be passed swiftly to put a stop to ill-treatment of animals \u2013 Animal Welfare Bill yet to be passed<\/li>\n<li>Parliamentary proceedings will be telecast live \u2013 NO THANK YOU<\/li>\n<li>A respected Foreign Service free of political interference will be re-established \u2013 scores of irregularities taking place<\/li>\n<li>Free &amp; Fair Elections \u2013 local government elections postponed without a date (a violation)<\/li>\n<li>Beeshana period \u2013 instead of the bogus white vans we see black defenders abducting people and beating them up and the Minister who admits to taking the person is yet to be arrested because the police still does not have evidence and the AG is still thinking what to do!<\/li>\n<li>Rajapakse witch-hunt \u2013 All the Rajapakse\u2019s and anyone connected even remotely with the Rajapakse\u2019s are called before the FCID or PRECIFAC and those that pose a threat are put behind bars until the police and authorities can come up with evidence against them. Arent people to be arrested only when there is evidence against them? Yahapalana governance is to arrest all opposition enemies and then compile evidence against them!<\/li>\n<li>Law &amp; Order has meant locking up intelligence officers on bogus charges and releasing LTTE cadres who had refused rehabilitation.<\/li>\n<li>Freedom in Judiciary and Media has meant nothing is reported against the yahapalana government and anything can be said against the Rajapakses! Cartoonists had a field day drawing cartoons of Rajapakse and he visited exhibitions laughing at himself \u2013 the white van disappearances are only figments of media imagination!<\/li>\n<li>Safeguarding national security has meant de-proscribing LTTE fronts without investigating their links to LTTE terrorism<\/li>\n<li>Securing national pride has been to co-sponsor the biased UN resolutions call the heroic armed forces that liberated the nation from terrorism as war criminals and agreeing to help create kangaroo courts with foreign lawyers\/judges to lock up all the war heroes and ensure they do not come to the defense of the nation once more.<\/li>\n<li>Getting international attention has been to make absurd statements against concerts with foreign artists! Everyone\u2019s now wondering what a stingray tail looks like!<\/li>\n<li>Sri Lanka\u2019s economic development is to be headed by war criminal Tony Blair and regime change operator George Soros!<\/li>\n<li>What is equally surprising is that Ban Ki Moon, the West who cant wait for a cat to sneeze under Rajapakse rule are totally silent when Ministers abduct men in black defenders and arrests are not even been made.<\/li>\n<li>The Tamil question \u2013 the country suffered 30 years of terrorism. It was the terrorists that the armed forces militarily defeated. Allied Forces fought against Hitler and Nazis. There was no reconciliation for Germany. Why should there be for Sri Lanka? Not only Tamils suffered. Sinhalese &amp; Muslims suffered more because LTTE terrorism was directed against Sinhalese &amp; Muslims and Tamils that went against the LTTE. Only Tamils cannot feel free, the Sinhalese and Muslims must be equally given their rights too.<\/li>\n<li>Diplomatic isolation is today replaced with diplomatic interference and meddling where every decision made locally must have the nod of approval of Samantha Power, David Cameron, Tony Blair, George Soros, revengeful CBK or Pakiasothy!<\/li>\n<li>Can anyone say what exactly is BETTER about the Yahapalana Government other than that it is run by Rich Royalists from Colombo thinking that Sri Lanka extends only upto Colombo city!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where are we heading as a nation? Rajapakse\u2019s left Sri Lanka with a $8billion foreign reserve and the Sri Lankan Rupee 131 against the dollar. Today we do not have foreign reserves and the rupee is now 143 and climbing showcasing the economic immaturity and false sense of belief the people placed in Ranil\u2019s economic order!<\/p>\n<p>Ranil\u2019s vision has been to push for a rail\/road\/sea link with India thus nullifying Sri Lanka\u2019s status as a sovereign nation and helping India realize its historical goal of annexing Sri Lanka to India making it an Indian protectorate. Ranil\u2019s rush to sign the CEPA (now being promoted under another name and elements craftily introduced via the budget) will mean the Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims would lose their jobs and Indians will start flooding to live and work and own land in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>The Tamils that think this is a grand idea may like to dwell a little more to wonder what their fate will be once the Indians and Tamil Nadu do occupy the whole of Sri Lanka eventually? The love and affection now being showered by Tamil Nadu from India will not prevail for Sri Lankan Tamils once they take ownership of Sri Lanka. And what of the Sinhalese? They may be the next boat people heading towards no-man\u2019s land having lost their nation because of their own follies and stupidities.<\/p>\n<p>Can the damage done throughout 2015 be reversed?<\/p>\n<p>Further reading<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/archives\/36387\">http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/archives\/36387<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patriot The Rajapakse Government was ousted from power on 9 January 2015. The dollar-pound-euro funded tarnishing anti-Rajapakse campaigns propelled by weaknesses and follies of the Rajapakse\u2019s themselves contributed to an unfortunate downfall. 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