{"id":66928,"date":"2017-06-13T22:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T04:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66928"},"modified":"2017-06-13T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T22:26:15","slug":"between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/13\/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Upali Cooray<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The expectations of the voters of Sri Lanka haven been dashed by the yahapalana government. The voters did expect a turnaround for better but it was not to be. The recent cabinet reshuffle is only a reshuffle of the same pack of cards. The politicians have taken the masses as fools. There is a limit to the toleration. There will be a devastating calamity once the flood gates are opened. It’s going to sweep all and sundry.<\/p>\n

Mahinda Rajapakse should be honored for getting rid of the Tigers but his subsequent foray in to mismanagement cannot be pardoned. There were jokers such as Mervyn Silva who once tied agoverment employee\u00a0 to a tree for not attending for duties.<\/p>\n

Killing of journalists such as Lasantha Wickramatunga, Eknaligoda, Ruggerite Thajudeen murder, are glaring atrocities Mahinda Rajapakse’s rule was absolute. The Rajapaksas controlled the treasury and Sri Lanka became the most expensive place to build a road. He and his family ran it as if they owned it.<\/p>\n

Yahapalanaya goons accused Mahinda Rajapaksa for running a family affair, but Ranil Wickramasingha made the government an affair of buddies, with the connivance of the President.<\/p>\n

The people of Sri Lanka never wanted RW as the Prime minister. If there is a referendum today the majority of the people will say no to RW. He was rejected by the people of this country 29 times consecutively but Maithripala Sirisena unconstitutionally appointed him Prime Minister for personal reasons.<\/p>\n

Therefore for the sake of democracy for which this government often makes a great fanfare, Wickramasinghe should step down from the office of Prime Minister without delay, as he is guilty of his direct responsibility for the Bond scam. In this matter, the President should demand his resignation. Maithripala Sirisena should also take\u00a0 part of the blame for allowing the Prime Minister\u00a0 to continue to employ Arjuna Mahendran when his services have been terminated by the refusal to extend his service contract. Therefore it becomes imperative that the President demands the submission of his resignation. UNP’s Hobson’s choice for the leadership is Karu Jayasuriya who has shown that he is not independent even as the speaker.<\/p>\n

Neither the norJVP the Front line socialist party can establish socialism as they perceive it, If they are elected to govern the country. The reason is that they are yet to understand that the modern economy is a larger physical system which depends on highly complex hypothetical system which is known as monitory system. Running it efficiently is not common sense any more.It is not simply a matter of good governance.<\/p>\n

So where do we go from here? The French Revolution, The Russian revolution, The Chinese revolution, all have one common phenomenon. Desperate situations need desperate answers. A revolution against the\u00a0 Sri Lankan state is inevitable in the circumstances. Who will take the leadership ?. Can a local Lenin or a local Mao Tse Dong, Ho chi Ming will come\u00a0 a reality? These leaders are far too extremists.<\/p>\n

Time is ripe for a Lee Kwan Yu or Mahathir Mohammad to take over. There is no other alternative.<\/p>\n

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