{"id":68185,"date":"2017-07-25T00:15:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T06:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68185"},"modified":"2017-07-24T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T00:14:09","slug":"sri-lanka-needs-all-the-parliamentarians-of-joint-opposition-to-save-sri-lanka-from-its-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/25\/sri-lanka-needs-all-the-parliamentarians-of-joint-opposition-to-save-sri-lanka-from-its-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka needs\u00a0 all the Parliamentarians of Joint Opposition to save Sri Lanka from its enemies."},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I did not expect to put any of my patriotic friends against the Joint Opposition when I wrote my last article.<\/p>\n

My intention\u00a0 was not to cause disunity \u00a0in the Joint Opposition and get the anti JO elements play their tom-toms in anticipation of a division in the JO. We have the right to question but not with an eye to breakup the JO.<\/p>\n

Because JO is the only saving grace\u201d the people have to rid of this useless experiment being carried out to rule the country by the SLFP and the UNP when in fact one the Prime Minster is the UNP leader and the other the\u00a0 President a UNP sympathiser pretending to be the President of the SLFP.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0 it is becoming obvious from past experience that no one can change the disastrous path this Yahapalanaya Sirisena-Ranil Government is taking to destroy every thing that we as citizen of this resplendent Sri Lanka respect and honour, such as its historical Sinhala Buddhist background, its culture, and the trust and unity that had been built through out the\u00a0 years with the minority Communities of this Country. If they the Yahapalanaya continue to rule unchecked, the Sri Lanka we knew will not be the same again.<\/p>\n

Joint Opposition helped this Sirisena Ranil Government to pass the 19th<\/sup> Amendment. Joint Opposition helped\u00a0 Sirisena Ranil Government to pass their Budgets. Joint Opposition helped them in various ways hoping that they will correct their idiotic pursuit of the disastrous path to disintegrate Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Joint Opposition did not object to writing a New Constitution but on the other hand participated in every one of the Committees set up to write a New Constitution. In being in the Constitution Assembly the Joint Opposition thought they will be able to\u00a0 take action against the sinister moves of the Yahapalanaya Government to write a New reconciliatory Constitution\u00a0 to\u00a0 radically change Sinhala Buddhist Sri Lanka, to a multi racial, multi religious\u00a0 country, giving the Tamils equal rights by even allowing them to sing the National Anthem in Tamil.<\/p>\n

But, to what extent did the Joint Opposition succeed in their efforts to change the march of the yahapalanaya caravan of disaster ?<\/p>\n

Every( ?) proposal the \u00a0members of the JO made at the Committee stage in the working process for the \u00a0writing of a New Constitution had not been accepted by the Lal Wijenayake Committee, and as a result the Joint Opposition withdrew from these bogus Committees.<\/p>\n

If the Joint Opposition continues to stay on with the Constitutional Assembly, what is the guarantee it can stop Sirisena Ranil combination writing and passing a Constitution changing Sri Lanka politically from what it had been for more than two thousand five hundred years ?<\/p>\n

Did\u00a0 President Maithripala Sirisena show his gratitude\u00a0 to the Joint Opposition which contributed much during\u00a0 Sirisena \u2013Ranil government\u2019s\u00a0 teething period \u201d by accepting it as the official Opposition of the Parliament which it very much deserves,\u00a0 or give the post of Chief Opposition\u00a0 Whip to the Joint Opposition ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is all right if the Joint Opposition remaining in the CA will enable it \u00a0to stop Sirisena-Ranil\u00a0 government carry out secret manoeuvres to fool the people and hoist before them an outwardly innocent\u00a0 Constitution\u00a0 with all requirements included to make it Federal in implementation.<\/p>\n

But President Maithripala Sirisena\u00a0 is more UNP than Ranil Wickramasinghe his Prime Minister. We have seen how President Sirisena\u00a0 steps in\u00a0 at the correct time to save Ranil Wickramasinghe when he is facing a difficult political or other situation ? <\/strong><\/p>\n

In the case of the Bond issue there was every reason with two COPE reports and Attorney General\u2019s declarations\u00a0 to have interdicted Arjuna Mahendran- the\u00a0 ex Governor of the Central Bank, and confiscate his Travel Documents and allow the Attorney General to file action against him.<\/p>\n

But what did the President Sirisena do ?<\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena allowed his Prime Minister to appoint the thief\u201d to a higher post,\u00a0 perhaps with a higher salary, as the advisor to the Prime Minister himself. Later when the situation was getting too hot to handle , President Sirisena appointed a Commission of inquiry\u00a0 requiring it to give a report in three months.<\/p>\n

After three months the Commission asked for an extension of the sittings of the Commission for six months, and it appears that \u00a0they will be asking for a further extension when they have enough evidence\u00a0 even to hang him\u201d without further investigation.<\/p>\n

And again, what happened in the case of the Volkswagen Plant to be set up in Sri Lanka ?<\/p>\n

President Sirisena\u00a0 in order to fool the people\u00a0 in a highly publicised Ceremony laid a foundation stone to set up a bogus\u201d Volkswagen Plant in Kuliyapitiya. That play acting\u201d of President Maithripala Sirisena was to save the face of his alter-ego Ranil Wickramasinghe .<\/p>\n

President Sirisena\u00a0 promised people a Cabinet reshuffle, because the Finance Minister\u00a0 Ravi Karunanayake had fallen out of favour with the people. Ranil Wickramasinghe was aginst it because Ravi Karunanayake and Arjun Mahendran are his bosom friends. President Sirisena had to go ahead with his play acting to please the people, without harming the relation between\u00a0 the President and his alter ego\u00a0 Ranil Wickramasinghe.<\/p>\n

The so called cabinet re-shuffle became an utter farce-a comedy\u201d giving the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Lotteries Board( the hen laying golden eggs) to Ravi Karunanayake, and the Ministry of Finance and the Media to Mangala Samaranayake,\u00a0 the other bossom friend of the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

There are many such instances of President Maithripala Sirisena stepping into save face for Ranil Wickramasinghe.<\/p>\n

President Maithripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickramasinghe are political twins\u201d<\/strong>. Nothing will separate them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Something more drastic has to be done to either separate them and allow President Maithripala Sirisena to deliver himself from the delirium from which he is suffering, that he is ever grateful to Ranil,\u00a0 and that he is nothing\u201d without Ranil Wickramasinghe,\u00a0 and make him understand that he should decide to stand or to die with \u00a0the leadership of SLFP cast upon him, \u00a0and now supported\u00a0 by a section of the SLFP for their enjoyment of the priviledges and social dignity of being Ministers in\u00a0 government even if it is taking Sri Lanka on a disastrous\u00a0 path to be\u00a0 a failed State. President Sirisena cannot do without the SLFP Presidency either, as otherwise it will be taken over by his sworn enemy Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

Having regular meetings organised\u00a0\u00a0 by the Joint Opposition and\u00a0 with SLFP Supporters of\u00a0 the President Mahinda Rajapakse in great numbers is good, but people participate in these meetings, \u00a0and thereafter fall into a political\u201d somnolence. The people should be roused up and kept aware of the evil of Sirisena-Ranil Government to the Country and the people.<\/p>\n

Just telling them that the Yahapalanaya Government is to a great state manipulated by the Western Countries and the UN, make some start hollering \u00a0that\u00a0 it is creating phantoms\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ( \u0db6\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0ddd \u0db8\u0dc0\u0db1\u0dc0\u0dcf) or seeing crocodiles in the basin ( \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dbb\u0dc4\u0dda\u00a0 \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0db9\u0dd4\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0ddd \u0daf\u0d9a\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dc0\u0dcf ).<\/p>\n

People see these UN and other Western visitors to Sri Lanka coming regularly, and see pictures in the news papers and TV showing\u00a0 \u00a0how they shake hands with our President and the Prime Minister and perhaps take it for a great yahapalanaya achievement.<\/p>\n

Some of our people may be satisfied\u00a0 by the mere fact that these great white men \u00a0come to shake hands of \u00a0our political dignitaries. Some of them may even\u00a0 not mind prices of commodities going up, \u00a0and that they and their familes may\u00a0 have to forego meal in order to make ends meet, as longs as they are given the priviledge of seeing\u00a0 the white Western Leaders squeeze the hands of the \u00a0President Maithripala Sirisena, and seeing red carpets laid in foreign air ports to meet President Sirisena and the Prime Minister Wickramasinghe.<\/p>\n

But in reality some of these visitors like Ben Emmerson QC- the UN Rapporter is not a reputable character.\u00a0 Emmerson has been accused of child abuse. He was suspended\u00a0 from being the<\/strong> most senior lawyer on the public inquiry into institutional child abuse in England and Wales .<\/strong>(https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2066530\/child-abuse-inquiry-accused-of-staging-a-cover-up-as-sexual-assault-claims-surround-probes-top-lawyer\/ )<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now the Jeffrey Feltman another UN Reporter in Sri Lanka was, \u00a0it appears involved in the Hillary Clinton e-Mail scandal. There are also the leaked Audio of the American State Department\u00a0 of Jeffrey Feltman\u2019s \u00a0involvement in using UN\u00a0 with the Administer \u00a0of the American State Department. <\/strong>Vijay Prashad\u2019s book \u2013Arab Spring, Libyan Writer, speaks of Jef Feltman\u2019s interference in the Affairs of the Arab countries.\u00a0 These are the people who interfere into Sri Lank\u2019s reconciliation process and the preparation of the New Constitution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ordinary people of Sri Lank do not know these questionable people who squeeze the hand of President Maithripala Sirisena\u00a0 not for the respect and affection for the man, but to use him for their own purposes. The others who know\u00a0 pretend not to know calling it\u00a0 creating phantoms( \u0db6\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0ddd \u0db8\u0dc0\u0db1\u0dc0\u0dcf) or seeing crocodiles in the basin ( \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dbb\u0dc4\u0dda\u00a0 \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0db9\u0dd4\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0ddd \u0daf\u0d9a\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dc0\u0dcf ).<\/p>\n

Therefore, the JO should prepare pamphlets in Sinhala, Tamil and English explaining every action taken by the government which are detrimental to the country and the people. And also inform the people about the foreign visitors to Sri Lanka and what they do when they come.<\/p>\n

The pamphlets should be short in simple language easy to read and understand by people of all sections of the Society. They should be printed in big letters. One pamphlets should cover one issue. They should be issued regularly to the people. So that they will know what President Maithripala Sirisena and his alter ego the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe are up to behind \u00a0the scene with those pretentious speeches of high morality, humanity and righteousness, to divide and endanger the independence and unitary state of this land of the Sinhala Buddhists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had made this proposal to Dallus Alahapperuma in his face book. But he does not seem to have even read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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