{"id":67296,"date":"2017-06-25T15:14:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T22:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67296"},"modified":"2017-06-25T15:14:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T22:14:45","slug":"maithriplala-sirisena-who-will-never-help-s-l-f-p-form-a-government-is-helping-ranils-survival-until-he-becomes-next-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/25\/maithriplala-sirisena-who-will-never-help-s-l-f-p-form-a-government-is-helping-ranils-survival-until-he-becomes-next-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Maithriplala Sirisena who will never help S.L.F.P form a Government, is helping Ranil\u2019s survival until he becomes next President."},"content":{"rendered":"

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

It is regrettable to say but the fact which has been made evident is that Maithripala Sirisena has no interest in the welfare of the country or its people. He is determination to out do Mahinda Rajapakse, make Rajapakses labelled thieves and political profiteers and remove the Rajapakse clan from politics. That is his political raison d\u2019etre. The country sees Sirisena \u00a0as a mere second in command in the Government, while\u00a0 Ranil wields \u00a0the real power and authority.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena left SLFP without giving any notice to the party, or having resigned before he left it.\u00a0 That means Maithripala Sirisena\u00a0 gave up his loyalty to the party\u00a0 and\u00a0 refused to stand by its Constitution.\u00a0 In other words he sacrifice his party for his own personal benefit.<\/p>\n

He accepted the Presidency of the SLFP because Mahinda Rajapakse offered it to him, and some self centred individuals like Sarath Amunugama, Rajitha Senaratnen, S.B.Dissanayake, Dilan Perera, Mahinda Samarasinghe etc., \u00a0left the SLFP to support Maithripala Sirisena the new President for self interest, rather than in the interest of the SLFP or to help the country and the people.<\/p>\n

Therefore, Maithripala Sirisena has no genuine interest in the SLFP, \u00a0and will not want to form a SLFP Government. He wants to help Ranil Wickramasinghe to stay on as Prime Minister until 2020 allowing him to become the next President, so that Mahinda Rajapakse will not be able to come to politics as\u00a0 President, Prime Minister or lead the SLFP as its President.<\/p>\n

If Sirisena wanted to remove the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe, he could have done that after the Bond Scam when Ranil refused to dismiss the services of Arjun Mahendran, and appointed him as his own Consultant. The President Sirisena is not seriously concerned about the inquiry into the Bond Scam. The Commission of investigation of the Bond Scam is an eye wash.<\/p>\n

The Cabinet reshuffle was\u00a0 an utter farce appointing Mangala Samaraweera as the Finance Minister and Ravi Karunanayake as the Foreign Minister with the Lotteries Board under his Ministry was a plan set up by Ranil Wickramasinghe. Ravi Karunanayake probably has state secrets about the Bond Scam which could\u00a0 undermine the people\u2019s trust of both the President and the Prime Minister.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Yahapalanaya continues to mismanage the Government, without having learnt any thing from their past \u00a0errors and mistakes.<\/p>\n

The recent floods and landslides left three hundred innocent lives lost. This is not the first time it happened since 2015. This is not the end there may be more in future, should we let even those disasters pass the same way as the last ? When are we going to learn lessons to correct our errors and face others with confidence\u00a0 at least to reduce the number of deaths ?<\/p>\n

I saw a politician from the government \u00a0Mahinda Amaraweera facing a political debate in TV trying \u00a0repeatedly to explain\u00a0 that Sri Lanka being a tropical island surrounded by a sea is naturally prone to such natural disasters, and that the government is helpless. He added that \u00a0even the countries more developed than ours too face such disasters.<\/p>\n

It is due to this very reason that we are a tropical Island and prone to such disasters that we should be well prepared before they happen, \u00a0to face such calamities avoiding danger to the lives of the people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can this government of Sirisena \u2013Ranil be exonerated from its culpability of neglect, both in the flood disaster and that of the Meethotamulla garbage dump ? The President was in Australia, the Prime Minister\u00a0 and the Minister of Disaster Management were outside and did not find it necessary to return immediately to attend to their duty of looking after the people in distress. Since 8th<\/sup> January,2015 Sri Lanka is falling into decadence and degeneration.<\/p>\n

This Sirisena-Ranil Government has not really settled down even after two and a half years to govern the country. The Government is engaged in doing inessentials, without seriously \u00a0attending to the matters that concern the welfare of the people and the security of the Country.<\/p>\n

Meethotamulla disaster and the present flood disaster have been caused by mismanagement by the government, and its failure to plan ahead to meet unexpected situations that would lead to loss of life and destruction of property.<\/p>\n

The Government is still bogged down with its calamitous need to bring the former President, his government and his supporters to court for some thing or another, to satisfy certain sections such as the JVP- JVP which believes that bringing disrepute to\u00a0 the former President and his supporters would remove him and his supporters from their\u00a0 popularity amoung the people, which would allow JVP to win back\u00a0 to themselves the popular \u00a0support of those people who held Mahinda Rajapakse in high esteem,\u00a0 at an election to eventually form a JVP government.<\/p>\n

Therefore the JVP is hell bent in forcing \u00a0the Yahapalanaya\u00a0 government to proceed with legal actions against the former President and his supporters on flimsy accusations they have collected and presented to the Bribery Commission and the FCID.<\/p>\n

It is time that Sirisena-Ranil Government\u00a0 stop spending further energy on\u00a0 discrediting the former President and his supporters, \u00a0and begin doing what ever they can to ameliorate the present hopeless situation in which the people find themselves. But all what the Yahapalanaya government is doing is to improve their own living conditions\u201d, with promises of better living conditions to the people in two or three years \u201d after 2020. <\/strong><\/p>\n

There is bragging and trumpet blowing by the yahapalanaya government while the people are desperate\u00a0 and\u00a0 craves\u00a0 for the end of the yahapalanaya \u00a0government. They brag about having set up a unity government of the two main political parties , but every one in the country sees that there is only a UNP\u00a0 Government and the SLFP is nonexistent.<\/p>\n

The President Sirisena who left the SLFP to become the common Presidential Candidate of the Opposition , is more grateful to the UNP and Ranil Wickramasinghe for having made him the President, and he will not hesitate to \u00a0betray the SLFP once again to help Ranil Wickramasinghe and the UNP and give into all their\u00a0 follies\u201d. This reality has not been understood by the SLFP followers of Sirisena.<\/p>\n

How else can one explain why the Cabinet reshuffle saw the President appointing \u00a0Ravi Karunanayake as the Foreign Minister \u00a0and\u00a0 assign to him the Lotteries Boards ? That was certainly to please Ranil Wickramasinghe, \u00a0as Ranil, Ravi and Arjun Mahendran are\u00a0 the three musketeers of the Yahapalanaya Government \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ranil will not give up Arjun Mahendran and the President will not disappointment Ranil on that account, we see how the Commission appointed to investigate the Bond Scam\u00a0 is becoming a farce\u00a0 its term of office being extended beyond three months as initially proposed.<\/p>\n

The people are now fed up with this government\u2019s inability to provide the people with a satisfactory standard of living. Having failed to attend to the welfare of the people, the government forced by the Western countries continues to cater to the demands of the Tamils for a pseudo reconciliation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Muslims too want to have their part of the cake, encouraged by the demands of the Tamils which have been exaggerated, and catered to by the yapalanaya government on the pretext of a \u00a0pseudo \u2013reconciliation. The Sinhala Buddhists are not racists but they are unable to keep silent when there is \u00a0continued aggressive attitude of the Muslims and their renewed deforestation of Wilpattu reservations to set up Muslim settlements.<\/p>\n

The Muslims like Rauf Hakeem, Mujubur Rahman, Marikkar, Asad Salli are rabble rousers. Rauf Kakeem\u2019s motives were clear when \u00a0a fire\u00a0 broke up in a tea factory in Nawalapitiya owned by a Muslim man. Rauf Hakeem without having any evidence accused that the fire was caused by Sinhala extremists, when even \u00a0the Muslim owner of the factory denounced the Minister\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n

There is now a hue and cry raised about hate speeches and\u00a0 the government\u00a0 announcing that they will take into custody any one found guilty of hate speeches. If it is so Minister Rauf Hakeem should also be arrested and taken into custody.\u00a0 Sivajilingam, Wigneswaran should be already under arrest. Why should those laws apply to Venerable Gnanasara thero of BBS and not to others ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When under the previous government after the elimination of terrorism the Armed Forces were trained in building construction, and town planning to allow the Armed Forces that saved the country from terrorism to be the nation builders, the Government was accused by the UNP saying that the Armed Forces are being used to clean drains.<\/p>\n

But now Ravi Karunanayake the Minster of Foreign Affairs says that the tri Forces should be used to remove accumulated waste in the city of Colombo.\u00a0 This is the man who insulted and ridiculed the Armed forces during military operations saying\u00a0 that the Army is going to Madavachchi and says it is going to Kilinochchi.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sri Lanka from North to South and East to West is in utter confusion today. There is caste problem in the north, Tamils in the East do not see eye to eye with the Tamils of the North. There is racism, and resentment of the Sinhala Community. There is enmity between the\u00a0 Tamils and Muslims too .<\/p>\n

Despite all this, \u00a0the government which is \u00a0unable to settle any problems of the country, or bring unity between the Communities despite a pseudo reconciliation process which only\u00a0 fortifies the separatist Tamils and weakens the Sinhala Buddhists, is swearing to write a new Constitution. If this is allowed it will be another failure like all their failed plans and the final nail on the coffin of Sri Lanka, which the Yahapalanaya government\u00a0 is preparing to bury while its sad and weak heart is still beating. <\/strong><\/p>\n

It has been recently reported that the UN had said\u00a0 that\u00a0 there are 900,000 people facing food insecurity in Sri Lanka and warning that without help the situation might further deteriorate. But Sri Lanka has no means to purchase rice from outside.<\/p>\n

What has become to Sri Lanka that was classed as one of the fastest growing economies, before the fateful election of the January, 2015 ? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Roman Emperor Nero was playing his violin while Rome was burning. Sri Lanka is in political flames today and the President Maithripala Sirisena and his Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe are enjoying their lives to the full making foreign visits shaking gloved and un-gloved hands of foreign dignitaries as if there is no problems in Sri Lanka, and as if\u00a0 its people are living in peace, security, happiness, \u00a0and limitless joy!!!<\/p>\n

The UNP is still making a hue and cry that\u00a0 Sri Lanka has no enemies in the world\u00a0 and all countries of the world are its friends. But no one has turned up yet to save Sri Lanka from falling into the\u00a0 abyss of decadence and poverty.\u00a0 But they the friendly\u201d Nations of the West are waiting \u00a0like \u00a0the old\u00a0 Greek widows \u00a0covered from\u00a0 head to foot in black, sitting \u00a0around the home where an old \u00a0widow is\u00a0 dying , awaiting her death, to\u00a0 take away from the home every usable item. That is the sort of friends Sirisena-Ranil Yahapalanaya has made.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reconciliation efforts of Yahapalanaya has only strengthened the Tamil diaspora which now has found an opening to propose to UN and UNCHR Zeid Ra\u2019ad Zeid Al Hussein to force the yahapalanaya Government to allow the Sri Lanka Tamil Community to exercise their right of self determination for self rule.<\/p>\n

This situation has arisen due to the ceaseless action taken by the Yahapalanaya Government in a vein quest for reconciliation with the Tamils. This is also the result of allowing the Yahapalanaya Government to pass the 19th<\/sup> Amendment.<\/p>\n

To stop this disastrous proposal from being taken up by the UN and the UNCHR Zeid Al Ra\u2019ad Zeid Al Hussein, \u00a0Sri Lanka should take some radical action immediately.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka should demand why the UN and the UNCHR under Zeid Al Hussein are not taking actions to reprimand\u00a0 USA and the Western Countries with the NATO Forces for continuing to violate human rights in their incessant bombardments in which hundred and thousands of innocent civilians had perished in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka should demand why only Sri Lanka which got rid of a ruthless terrorism within its own country is being continuously accused for human rights violations and war crimes, while the UN and Zeid Al Hussain are allowing themselves to be used\u00a0 by the USA and the West to impose demands on Sri Lanka for reconciliation\u00a0 with the Tamils without leaving that as an interior issue that has to be settled by the Government of Sri Lanka without Foreign intervention? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Sri Lanka<\/strong> should leave the membership of both the UN and the UNHRCouncil forthwith unless they accept a proposal against USA and its allies for war crimes and violation of human rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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