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Last Thursday (23\/6\/2016) Daily Mirror\u2019s cartoon reflects many a citizen\u2019s \u00a0feelings \u2013 President Maithripala dropping the flag of Yahapalanaya and walking away. <\/span><\/p>\n Nothing much has changed, has it? The Cabinet is top heavy as it was and more being added at the drop of the hat. The politicians are as unruly and thuggish even inside the parliament \u2013 especially inside the parliament. All the so called corruption cases \u2013 even murder cases are taking years to solve \u2013 if they are to be solved at all.\u00a0 All the culprits who were shivering in their boots when the President waxed eloquent on the Presidential election platform are in the parliament with extra fringe benefits to boot!<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0When the floods hit not a single parliamentarian visited\u00a0 the victims immediately, but made a mockery of the situation by visiting them wearing life vests after the floods have subsided. They as usual, were thumbing their noses at the voters, indicating \u00a0that \u00a0their lives are more precious than the voters\u2019! <\/span><\/p>\n To top it all, not a single \u00a0politician objected \u00a0duty free cars for their clan specially at a time when thousands were just hit by floods and were suffering having lost everything except the clothes on their back. \u00a0\u00a0The callous attitude of the politicians was disgusting \u2013 what was\u00a0 the indecent hurry to get the cars? Couldn\u2019t they wait at least for a month or two to bring this motion? The sheer insensitivity of the politicians was only enhanced by the absolute silence of the President regarding this matter. <\/span><\/p>\n Still the only way to attract attention of the higher ups seem to be riots and parades. Hate speech is spewing out from Gnanasara and the deafening silence from the law makers – in \u00a0spite of his speech having gone viral and many even having \u00a0lodged complaints with the police – \u00a0bring a painful de ja vu feeling. Muslim politicians, in spite of the fact that there is no more tyranny, have not thought it prudent to curb this menace in the bud. <\/span><\/p>\n O, the list goes on and on. Palanaya yanne parana parey! <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sent by:<\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0Dehiwela<\/span><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,\u00a0Dehiwela Last Thursday (23\/6\/2016) Daily Mirror\u2019s cartoon reflects many a citizen\u2019s \u00a0feelings \u2013 President Maithripala dropping the flag of Yahapalanaya and walking away. Nothing much has changed, has it? The Cabinet is top heavy as it was and more being added at the drop of the hat. The politicians are as unruly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56150","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=56150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}