{"id":66135,"date":"2017-05-14T15:51:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T22:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66135"},"modified":"2017-05-14T15:51:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T22:51:04","slug":"oh-my-god-what-has-yahapalanaya-done-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/05\/14\/oh-my-god-what-has-yahapalanaya-done-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh ! My God !! What has Yahapalanaya done to Sri Lanka."},"content":{"rendered":"

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

What has become of Sri Lanka we had \u00a0the day before 8th<\/sup> January,2015 ? What has the change to Yahapalanaya \u00a0meant to my poor Lanka?<\/p>\n

The people have gained nothing since the change over from the Government of President Mahinda Rajapakse \u00a0to the government of President Maithripala Sirisena\u00a0 pretentiously called \u00a0Yahapalanaya, but the Parliamentarians have got much. Most of them are plush , taken more weight, and ply in expensive limousines. They talk a lot but work a little , and pretends to be doing a lot.<\/p>\n

The Yahapalanaya that came with a streamlined 100 day programme has ended up with no programme.\u00a0 The stalwarts of the Yahapalanaya were Ranil Wickramasinghe and his UNP buddies. They thought that once they are in power the West will land here bringing\u00a0 with them the much wanted US dollars, British sterling pounds and German marks and they can turn their back to China which would be an added incentive for the West to dump their monies the more here to invest in every industry under the sun.<\/p>\n

Ranil Wickramasinghe \u00a0told China that Sri Lanka can do without them. Ranil Wickramasinghe and his predominantly UNP Government\u00a0 told China that they\u00a0 do not want China to go ahead with the \u00a0Colombo Port City, as it has been planned badly.<\/p>\n

They put in place a master planner Champika Ranawaka to\u00a0 re build the Colombo City with a larger land area. Ravi Karunanayake an experienced money handler who occupied the\u00a0 money deposited with him by Raja Rajaratnam imprisoned in USA, was made the Minister of Finance. He thought he was turning out the best budget Sri Lanka ever had. But it soon fizzled out to be a no-budget\u201d being passed, re cast and re-passed\u00a0 in Parliament several times and still with lot of un patched\u00a0 holes\u201d. But yet the West named him the best Finance Minister in Asia.<\/p>\n

Ranil Wickramasinghe appointed his prized genius Mangala Samaraweera as the Foreign Minister \u00a0to rope in the West to make Sri Lanka a Singapore\u201d, as\u00a0 he had already recruited a Singapore Banking genius to come with his magic wand to make the Sri Lanka Central Bank lay golden eggs\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mangala Samaraweera the prodigy\u201d trusted to make miracles was to use his charm to win over the West at the snap of a finger.<\/p>\n

Mangala Samaraweera went to Geneva without hesitation and sponsored\u00a0 along with America the worst resolution USA had brought against Sri Lanka to take the Sri Lanka Armed Forces to a tribunal charged for war crimes, which had been long delayed due to lack of enthusiasm of the Previous Mahinda Rajapakse Government to allow\u00a0 USA to pass such a resolution. Yahapalanaya sponsored that resolution hoping that the West in recognition would send hordes of investors to Sri Lanka to invest in development projects.<\/p>\n

Having not received any encouraging signals from the West for the development of Sri Lanka other than lot of applause for following democracy to the letter and taking care of the interests of the minority Tamils, the Yahapalanaya Leadership thought that they may probe the possibility of turning to\u00a0 Japan as an alternative investor for the development of Sri Lanka. But Japan\u00a0 after giving Ranil Wickramasinghe an honorary degree, seems to have gone silent on investing on any development project of value\u00a0 in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Now Yahapalanaya is like the cat that evacuated his bowels\u00a0 on the rock. It has no idea as to what it should do next,\u00a0 to make good the change it\u00a0 promised to the people after defeating the\u00a0 previous government of President Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

The Yahapalanaya then did what\u00a0 some dogs do. A dog tries to bark away a bigger dog, and when the bigger dog shows his teeth and the claws \u00a0the aggressive small dog runs away, and later, on second thought, hides its tail between its legs\u00a0 and crawls back to the stronger dog that chased him away.<\/p>\n

Yahapalanaya that belittled and insulted China, stopping it from continuing with the Port City project for which the President of China Xi Jinping himself came to Sri Lanka to \u00a0lay the foundation stone, is now going back to China seeking their help. Yahapalanaya has at last realised that it\u00a0 is only China that still helps the\u00a0 developing countries\u00a0 and not the rich Western friends of whom the Yahapalanaya spoke so highly and depended on making the people of Sri Lanka understand that they made \u00a0a better choice in \u00a0replacing the previous regime of Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

It is time that the Yahapalanaya\u00a0 now learns from its mistakes and understand that President Mahinda Rajapakse was after all \u00a0a good man who did not take revenge by taking up the Batalanda file to punish Ranil Wickramasinghe or the Waters Edge Land\u00a0 Transaction to embarrass and bring disrepute to Chandrika Kumaratunga.<\/p>\n

Now these Yahapalana Cats having done\u00a0 what they should not have done on the rock \u00a0are glum faced without a clue as to what to do next. Not having received the expected response from the Western investors, or those from Japan, Ranil Wickramasinghe has turned in a big way to India.<\/p>\n

But India is not ready to\u00a0 aid Sri Lanka for its Buddhist or Ashokan connection, but the Indian Prime Minster knowing the failure of the Yahapalanaya of Sri Lanka to have attracted investors from the West, from Japan and from China knows that it has no alternative\u00a0 now but to accept what ever is offered by India.\u00a0 India however knows that what little they would give they will take back with \u00a0multiple interest for the benefit of India.<\/p>\n

They invited the Prime Minister Modi of India to inaugurate the UN Wesak Day in Sri Lanka. But Modi made it an occasion to lecture on importance of India for Sri Lanka\u2019s security, and that the population of Sri Lanka is an indivisible part of the 1.25 billion Indians in the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

It is not a good prospect as Sri Lanka cannot depend on India for security, as we saw it when Sri Lanka was engaged in\u00a0 military operations to eliminate terrorism. India was not very dependable then as the\u00a0 80 million Tamils at India\u2019s southern tip dictated\u00a0 Indian Central Government\u2019s stand on the question of terrorism in Sri Lanka. Therefore can we again trust India for Sri Lanka\u2019s security ?<\/p>\n

India has a pressing unemployment problem.\u00a0 Hence India is all out to sign the ETCA as it would be a solution\u00a0 for its unemployment problem. India would like to annex the North of Sri Lanka and send\u00a0 excessive Tamil population to North, and for that a Hanuman bridge and a railway to Trincomalee, would provide a passage for illegal immigrants coming\u00a0 from India.<\/p>\n

Yahapalanay Government is being fooled by every one- the West wanted a regime change in Sri Lanka and now that it has happened the West will pay only lip service without binding them selves\u00a0 for any sort of long term\u00a0 engagement to develop Sri Lanka. India needs Sri Lanka to solve at least some of\u00a0 its unsolved social\u00a0 problems of its 1.25 billion population.<\/p>\n

Modi had said\u00a0 that India\u00a0 would \u00a0build houses for the State Tamils and the Tamils of the North. That would give \u00a0Sri Lanka a\u00a0 greater headache with the Tamils building a\u00a0 greater \u00a0allegiance to India above that of Sri Lanka. That would be a wastage of all those concessions made to Tamils for reconciliation.<\/p>\n

In addition to those political problems created by India, Yahaplanaya\u00a0 is on the verge of the sale of Trincomalee oil Tanks, and\u00a0 the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port to India . In the south Yahapalanaya is making arrangements to lease\u00a0 for twice 90 years, the Magampura Port and 20 thousand acres of land to China.<\/p>\n

Yahapalanaya cannot fool the Chinese as by stopping the work of the Colombo Port City , Chinese Companies must have lost considerable amount of money, in stopping work and allowing the machines to rust\u00a0 and unworkable, and re starting work after a long loss of time. The Yahapalanaya Government had been acting foolishly without any planning from the day one of the election of\u00a0 Maithriplala Sirisena on the 8th<\/sup> January, 2015.<\/p>\n

The foolish euphoria after the election victory blinded\u00a0 the yayapalanaya leaders from acting wisely with a planned programme of development. Only thing they thought of doing was a negative programme of\u00a0 revenge and hatred\u00a0 to punish the Rajapaksas and all those connected with the previous government. This was not a wise thing to have been undertaken , and the result is an utter political failure.<\/p>\n

The end result\u00a0 is\u00a0 today Sri Lanka is like a rudderless boat \u00a0in a vast rough sea with signs of an on coming storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera What has become of Sri Lanka we had \u00a0the day before 8th January,2015 ? What has the change to Yahapalanaya \u00a0meant to my poor Lanka? The people have gained nothing since the change over from the Government of President Mahinda Rajapakse \u00a0to the government of President Maithripala Sirisena\u00a0 pretentiously called \u00a0Yahapalanaya, but the […]<\/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-66135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66135","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=66135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}