{"id":65893,"date":"2017-05-07T15:53:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T22:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=65893"},"modified":"2017-05-07T15:53:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T22:53:35","slug":"abolish-executive-presidency-jvp-to-meet-president-and-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/05\/07\/abolish-executive-presidency-jvp-to-meet-president-and-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Abolish Executive Presidency: JVP to meet President and PM\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

News Item \u2026\u2026.. The Nation<\/p>\n

Quote by Lee Kwan \u00a0Yew <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Lee was unapologetic in the face of criticism that Singapore interfered too much in individuals’ lives, telling the Straits Times in 1987 “had I not done that, we wouldn’t be here today. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.\u201d<\/em> Lee was critical of what he saw as the overly liberal approach of the US and the West in general, saying it had “come at the expense of orderly society.\u201d<\/p>\n

We have a democratically elected government .<\/p>\n

Statements made by the Ex-president that he can topple the government even today ,tantamount to grabbing power with un democratic means ?<\/p>\n

Whether people regret or not , a \u00a0new President has been selected by the people \u00a0Ex-President may have been a charismatic leader, due to his courageous act to beat terrorism. Even President Premadasa was a charismatic leader who \u00a0has eradicated JVP terrorism at that time .<\/p>\n

Instigating a strikes demanding punishment to some people who may have been involved in obvious corruption during the past few years could have been more democratic \u00a0.Supporting island-wide strike action by doctors Indirectly\u00a0 or directly and make the ordinary citizens duffer .gives the impression \u00a0to an outsider that people are punished for voting the current regime to power.<\/p>\n

Idea behind the demand by JVP to abolish\u00a0 the presidency \u00a0is not for the good of the people but for their own benefit .It will \u00a0enable then to \u00a0freely instigate such strikes and protests without \u00a0any fear of being harmed and persecuted by an autocratic regime .Doctors ,Buddhist priests ,drivers will fear any strike action if there is an absolute president running the country who will put the people in forefront<\/p>\n

In communist or quasi socialist countries you \u00a0never hear of any strike \u00a0because there is autocracy in the form of Dictatorship of Proletariat ,who will imprison any striker in the pretext of being Imperialist instigators \u00a0.<\/p>\n

I find this regime quite democratic to satisfy the demands of foreign powers who keep blackmailing us citing human right violations .If the regime becomes aggressive, they tend to threaten us and deprive us from giving much needed grants \/aid.<\/p>\n

Lately government tend to get court orders to prevent such strike action ,but no one abbeys the law.<\/p>\n

My honest opinion is Yahaplanaya cannot provide meals for the poor .Just like in Singapore ,we need to have Executive President who thinks about the country and take any meaningful action\u00a0 to stop\u00a0 unfair strike<\/p>\n

It can be a dictator backed by Imperialists or Socialist background, but we need a firm Executive to govern the country .JVP can say anything but they losing ground.<\/p>\n

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera News Item \u2026\u2026.. The Nation Quote by Lee Kwan \u00a0Yew \u00a0Lee was unapologetic in the face of criticism that Singapore interfered too much in individuals’ lives, telling the Straits Times in 1987 “had I not done that, we wouldn’t be here today. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people […]<\/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-65893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65893","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=65893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}