{"id":51915,"date":"2016-02-08T23:23:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T05:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51915"},"modified":"2016-02-08T14:02:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T21:02:22","slug":"hegemonic-india-unfurls-plans-to-colonize-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/02\/08\/hegemonic-india-unfurls-plans-to-colonize-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegemonic India unfurls plans to colonize Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

By A.A.M.Nizam \u2013 Matara.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

India has a set of very powerful and competent bureaucratic band fully assisted by the RAW espionage agency and thousands of wealthy, professional and influential non-resident Indians resident in the wealthy nations of the world.\u00a0 This combination has already established their hegemony in the neighbouring countries such as Nepal and Bhutan and a long term objective of theirs is to spread the tentacles of their hegemonic octopus to get Sri Lanka also subjugated under them.<\/p>\n

All these years Sri Lanka escaped from getting entrapped to their hegemonic maneuvers due to strong nationalistic Sri Lanka Freedom Party government existed under the former President Mahinda Rajapksa.\u00a0 However the floodgates for Indian intrusion into our trade, professional and service sectors have been opened with the dismissal of President Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s government with the aegis of the RAW and western espionage agencies and installing the puppet government of Bra Sirisena and the Indian stooge Ranil Wickremasinghe.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the opposition from the exporters, professionals and service sector personnel of Sri Lanka, the Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade Malik Samarawickrama has said that the Sri Lankan government is planning to deepen bilateral relations with India through the Indo\u2013Lanka Economic and Technology Co-operation Agreement (ETCA) and they intend to ink it by mid-2016.<\/p>\n

This so called new agreement has been planned to sign in place of the much criticized Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) which was being negotiated between both sides for many years as a sequel to the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (ISLFTA) of 2000,<\/p>\n

India seems to be highly impatient to get this agreement signed and the Indian External Affairs Minister Mrs. Shushma Swaraj\u2019s visit to Sri Lanka last week was indeed to make inroads to get this agreement signed and enlist projects in the North, the East and in the Hill country (the new\u00a0 vista for Indian domination in Sri Lanka) exclusively for Indians.\u00a0 One should not under estimate Mrs. Shushma like our infantile Ministers since she is a very successful Minister of External Affairs India has got similar to our former Foreign Minister the late Mr. Lakshman Kadiragamar.<\/p>\n

The projects she has enlisted to be carried out by India includes development of the Palaly Airport, infrastructure enhancement of the Kankesanturai Port, the Sampur Power Plant, a special economic zone in Trincomalee, the Oil Tank Farms project in Trincomalee and construction of the Jaffna Cultural Centre on a grant basis and water supply projects estimated at a cost of nearly US$ 475 million to be undertaken by Indian companies under the Buyers’ Credit Scheme of the EXIM Bank of India.<\/p>\n

Further they also want to undertake under the Small Development Project (SDP) model establishment of the Civil and Mechanical Engineering Complex in Kilinochchi; Campus of University of Jaffna; Skills Development Centre of the Faculty of Agriculture in Kilinochchi; Construction of the Rabindranath Tagore Memorial Auditorium at the University of Ruhuna; Construction of the Mahatma Gandhi International Centre in Matale; Establishment of English Language Labs in all nine provinces of Sri Lanka; Renovation of the Duraiappah Stadium in Jaffna and Renovation of the Child Development Centres in plantation areas.<\/p>\n

She has also held discussions on the construction by India of a 200-bed ward complex and supply of medical equipment to the District Hospital in Vavuniya in addition to the supply of medical equipment to District Hospitals in Jaffna, Kilinochchi and Mullaithivu.
\nIn the Estates sector, India will work on the construction of a state-of-the-art 150-bed hospital in Dickoya, Hatton, with development assistance from India.<\/p>\n

In the tourism sector, they intend to establish the Ramayana Trail in Sri Lanka and the Buddhist Circuit in South Asia.<\/p>\n

She has urged early signing of the revised Air Services Agreement that has been pending since September 2013 and both sides have agreed to enhance cooperation in the aviation sector, including in areas of aeronautical search and rescue, capacity building and training and use of the Indian satellite system GAGAN.<\/p>\n

As regards construction and renovation of 50,000 houses it has been pointed that construction of 44,000 houses have already been completed and the construction of the remaining 4,000 houses in the Uva and Central Provinces will be undertaken shortly.<\/p>\n

The Press Trust of India reported yesterday that India is keen to establish refinery and bunkering operations in Sri Lanka. The Indian Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said that he hopes that India will once again be in a position to export petroleum products to Bangladesh with the commissioning of Paradip refinery in India which was declared open by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday.<\/p>\n

When we carefully analyze the aforementioned plans and intensions it is evident that the hegemonic India will soon dominate and economically rule the Northern and Eastern provinces and the hill country and the proposed projects will have Indians as their managers and workers thus denying employment opportunities to the much needed and deserving Sri Lankans. Earlier it was thought that India wants to rule North and East as their 26th<\/sup> State and with the new trends it seems that want to make the government of Sri Lanka a puppet regime and rule all parts of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the IT professionals in Sri Lanka have voiced reservations over the ETCA that allows free movement of IT professionals across the two countries.\u00a0 They feel it will lead to a large number of Indian IT professionals flooding Sri Lanka thereby denying job opportunities for locals.<\/p>\n

The apex body of professionals in Sri Lanka, the Organization of Professional Associations (OPA) has expressed its deep concern over the proposed ETCA. The Head of the OPA Rohana Kuruppu has said that the deal is absolutely unnecessary as Sri Lanka has sufficient professional resources\u201d.<\/p>\n

He has warned that such an agreement to bring foreign professional services to the country can be detrimental to the local professional resource base.<\/p>\n

The Sri Lanka Association of Software and Services Companies, an organisation which looks after the interests of IT professionals in the country has also expressed concern over the proposed ECTA saying that it will not support any agreement that is detrimental to the industry and the country.<\/p>\n

A group, called the Sri Lanka Solidarity Movement, in a letter to President Maithripala Sirisena, has also voiced opposition to the ETCA, saying the agreement will create a situation where Sri Lanka will be flooded with labourers and professionals from India.<\/p>\n

The joint Engineers\u2019 Association and the joint Professionals Association have also expressed their strong opposition to signing of this agreement with India and they have organized to hold a foot walk and a rally against this ignominious agreement on the 11th<\/sup> of this.\u00a0 All Sri Lankans should join these patriotic professionals and express their vehement opposition to this agreement which is very much harmful to this country.\u00a0 Let us remain as a free nation and not become a colony of India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By A.A.M.Nizam \u2013 Matara. India has a set of very powerful and competent bureaucratic band fully assisted by the RAW espionage agency and thousands of wealthy, professional and influential non-resident Indians resident in the wealthy nations of the world.\u00a0 This combination has already established their hegemony in the neighbouring countries such as Nepal and Bhutan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aamnizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51915","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=51915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}