{"id":68319,"date":"2017-07-28T20:39:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T02:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68319"},"modified":"2017-07-28T13:18:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T20:18:44","slug":"democracy-sans-elections-pc-elections-too-postponed-the-dengue-fine-should-be-imposed-on-president-udaya-gammanpila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/28\/democracy-sans-elections-pc-elections-too-postponed-the-dengue-fine-should-be-imposed-on-president-udaya-gammanpila\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy sans elections \u2013 PC elections too postponed \u2013 The Dengue Fine should be imposed on President. Udaya Gammanpila"},"content":{"rendered":"

Translated by A.A.M.NIZAM \u2013 MATARA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The Provincial Councils Election (Revised) Act draft bill published by a gazette notification on 10th<\/sup> July is to be presented in the Parliament this week.\u00a0 The objective of this draft bill is to introduce a Law stating that the female representations in the Provincial Councils should at least be a minimum o 30%.\u00a0 We totally agree for that we do not mind even if it was made a minimum of 50%.\u00a0 But we have a suspicion whether this government is in a spurious attempt to postpone Provincial Council elections similar to the postponement of Local Government elections?<\/p>\n

This was stated by Parliamentarian Mr. Udaya Gammanpila, the leader of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya addressing a media conference at held at his party headquarters.<\/p>\n

Earlier there was rule that 40% of the candidates for Local Government Elections should be youths.\u00a0 Accordingly the subject Minister should notify through a gazette the number of candidates and the number of youth candidates to be included in a nomination list. But in this Act there is no ruling as such.\u00a0 It has not even being mentioned the number of female representatives who should from each district.\u00a0 It should be counted as 30% of the total number of candidates.\u00a0 As per the Act if there were decimals it should be counted as the closest full number.\u00a0 For example if the number was 6.5 should it be taken as 6 or should it be taken as 7 because 6.5 is closest to both numbers 6 and 7.\u00a0 The Alliance will put 6 candidates in their list and the JVP will put 7 candidates in their list.\u00a0 As per the new Act if there is no 30% minimum the nomination list should be rejected.\u00a0\u00a0 In such an instance the JVP will raise objections saying that since the female representation in the Alliance nomination is not proper that list should be rejected.\u00a0 But the alliance will say that the female representation of 6 candidates is correct.\u00a0 Now what figure will be accepted by Election Commission \u2013 whether it is 6 or 7?<\/p>\n

After getting this Act approved the Election Commission will say that the ICC has not formulated the rules properly and until it formulates the rules that they cannot perform the umpire\u2019s job. Or else they would say that the pitch has not been made properly and until the pitch is made properly they will not allow to play the match.\u00a0 Finally what will happen is the indefinite postponement of the Provincial Council Election also similar to the postponement of the Local Government Elections.<\/p>\n

Therefore, an amendment should be brought to this if people\u2019s sovereign right of casting their votes is to be protected without allowing to interfere in it.\u00a0 To avoid the female representation becoming a strategy for postponing elections, an amendment should be incorporated in the Act stipulating that the Election should announce the female representation required for each district by a gazette notification on the very day of announcing the date of holding the elections.\u00a0 Otherwise the disease that affected the mini election could get afflicted to the Provincial Council Election as well.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the government has announced that the constitution would be amended with a view to holding all Provincial Council Elections on the same day. It has said that he current method of holding elections in different regions on different days had resulted in the waste of resourc, inconvenience to the public, violence associated with polls activities, electoral fraud and misuse of state-owned properties. The cabinet has approved a proposal by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe to amend the Provincial Council Election Act ti ensure that elections to all provinces should be held on the same day.<\/p>\n

Addressing another PHU media conference MP Udaya Gammanpila said that due to the inefficiency of the inept government the official number of dengue patients has exceeded one lakh and the dengue death toll has exceeded 300.\u00a0 The real situation is more dangerous than this. Today the hospitals are overflowed with dengue patients and you find dengue patients sleeping not only in hospital beds but also sleeping on tables, underneath the beds, on steps to upper floors and on corridors. Under this situation the patients are even compelled to obtain treatment by remaining in their houses.\u00a0 Details of these patients are not included in government reports. Yet, even after 3 months the government has not been able to control the dengue mega epidemic situation.\u00a0 Therefore we request the government to announce a dengue medical emergency situation.<\/p>\n

What the government has to do initially is to postpone non emergency operations for one month. If there was a temporary control on patients with non critical operation requirements and endurable conditions getting admitted to hospitals the beds required by them could be allocated to dengue patients. Similarly if there was a temporary control on patients getting admitted to hospitals for non-emergency tests the beds required by them also could be allocated to dengue patients<\/p>\n

More than all this the indigenous treatment methods are very important.\u00a0 There is no treatment method or medicinal treatment for dengue under western medical science.\u00a0 What is being done under the western treatment methods is the control of complicated situations arising due to the illness. But under the indigenous treatment system there are numerous treatment methods to cure this disease.\u00a0 I am personally aware of incidents of curing dengue patients who were about to die through indigenous treatment.\u00a0\u00a0 But there is no recognition for those doctors by the government. Patients continue to die and get subjected to complicated situations but there is no government programme to direct these patients to indigenous doctors.\u00a0 Therefore we request the government to focus its attention on indigenous treatment methods.\u00a0 Unfortunately a nation that eliminated the cruel terrorist tiger is struggling without being able to eliminate the tiny dengue mosquito.<\/p>\n

The government now file cases and impose fines for people having places that contain dengue mosquito larvae.\u00a0 If these larvae were found in a house, the head of the household gets fined.\u00a0 If they were found in a factory or in an industry the owner of the factory or the industry will get fined.\u00a0 If they were found in a school the Principle of that school will get fined. Then who should be fined for prevailing dengue mosquito larvae in the country for several months? The government may take concrete action to control dengue only if the President was imposed a fine on a daily basis. (niz)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Translated by A.A.M.NIZAM \u2013 MATARA The Provincial Councils Election (Revised) Act draft bill published by a gazette notification on 10th July is to be presented in the Parliament this week.\u00a0 The objective of this draft bill is to introduce a Law stating that the female representations in the Provincial Councils should at least be a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aamnizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68319","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=68319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}