{"id":68416,"date":"2017-07-31T21:26:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T03:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68416"},"modified":"2017-07-31T14:22:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T21:22:12","slug":"the-fraudulent-hambantota-agreement-will-be-revoked-and-the-harbour-will-be-nationalised-regardless-of-objection-by-china-india-or-anyone-basil-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/31\/the-fraudulent-hambantota-agreement-will-be-revoked-and-the-harbour-will-be-nationalised-regardless-of-objection-by-china-india-or-anyone-basil-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"The fraudulent Hambantota agreement will be revoked and the harbour will be nationalised regardless of objection by China, India or anyone \u2013 Basil Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The former Minister of Economic Development Mr. Basil Rajapaksa said that under a government that will be established in the future headed by Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa the Hambantota harbour sold by Maithri-Ranil Junta would definitely be nationalized.<\/p>\n

He said that this agreement which had been signed by wrong personalities is not a legally valid agreement and regardless of whoever who became opposed to it, whether it be China, or India or whoever else the agreement will be annulled and the harbour will be nationalized.<\/p>\n

Mr. Basil Rajapaksa made these comments speaking at a function held in Udugampola in Minuwangoda to officially establish the first electoral organisation of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) at the Reggie Ranatunga Conference Hall on 29th<\/sup> July.<\/p>\n

Speaking further Mr. Rajapaksa said that while he is happy about establishing the firtst electoral organisation of the SLPP on this day he also feel sad about this day being the day of selling the Hambantota harbour.<\/p>\n

He said that it is a day of mourning as it was on a day like this the betrayal of the country to India was instituted by signing the Indo-Sri Lanka agreement.\u00a0 Hambantota Harbour was the only poperty that was available for Sri Lanka to sell.\u00a0 At present we do not have tea estates to sell because the UNP governments had already sold our tea estates.\u00a0 He said that airports can be built anywhere in the world but there are only few countries where harbours can be built.<\/p>\n

Even from that Hambantota harbour is the only harbour that is situated on the international navigation route.\u00a0 They say hat this harbour was not sold but only leased it out.\u00a0 This lease will end only in 2116.\u00a0 None of those who are living today will live until 2116. For another 99 years.\u00a0 Not only those who aree here but even a child who will be born today will live until that time.<\/p>\n

If the child born today lives for 99 years only he or she will be able to see this harbour becoming to our ownership,\u00a0 The harbour\u2019s revenue rests on bunkering.\u00a0 That is why the Petroleum Corporation employees staged a strike demanding that even if the government sell the harbour they should be given the right to carry out bunkering activities.\u00a0 By the time this 99 year lease ends there will ge no ships in the world running on fuel.<\/p>\n

By that time ships will run on nuclear or solar power.\u00a0 The former British Government Agent of Hambantota Leonard Wolf also dreamt of a Magampura harbour.\u00a0 It was Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa who built that harbour and added it as a national resource.\u00a0 Similar to what we annulled some clauses in the Indo-Sri Lanka agreement, under a Mahinda Rajapaksa government this harbour agreement will also be definitely annulled and it will be nationalized.<\/p>\n

For doing so sometimes India may get angry with us, or China may get angry with us.\u00a0\u00a0 This agreement is not proper.\u00a0 This agreement has been signed by a wrong person.\u00a0 Therefore it will certainly become invalid.<\/p>\n

We must also speak about what happened to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.\u00a0 Some people ask why a new party is being formed?<\/p>\n

When we received independence in 1948 the administration of the country fell into the hands of black whites (Kalu Suddhas).\u00a0 We waited till 1951 until the people of this country to acquire the ruling power.\u00a0 When that was not happened the five great forces got together and formed the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. In 1956 General Election the MEP government led by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party was created and the Sinhalala language was made the official language of this country.<\/p>\n

Do we have the Sri Lanka Freedom Party policies in that party today?\u00a0 A person calling himself as the President of the party while sitting in the President\u2019s chair has sold the harbour built by Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa.\u00a0 Now he says that he changed that agreement. But it is only for the President of the country who can sell lands that belong to the country. Despite that he is telling lies to the couynry that he doesn\u2019t know about it.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -.<\/p>\n

The country has been betrayed by signing the Missing Persons Act.\u00a0 When the ECTA is signed our economic freedom will also vanish.\u00a0 Today the policies of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party have been nullified.\u00a0 By removing Mr. Prasanna Ranatunga who became first in the district a person who lost the election has been appointed as the electoral organiser.\u00a0 Is it the work of a person who loves the party who will indulge in things like this by removing the most popular person of the party?<\/p>\n

In a situation like this it became necessary to give national leadership and it became necessary to have a new party for that purpose.\u00a0 It is for that reason the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) was formed.\u00a0 It was on 1st<\/sup> November 2016 that this party was registered.\u00a0 After 6 months of forming this party on 1st<\/sup> of May 2017 we brought Asia\u2019s largest and a historical crowd to the Galle Face greens for the May Day rally.<\/p>\n

You have gathered here today to participate in the moment of handing over this party to its real inheritors.\u00a0 This party now belongs to you.\u00a0 It is your responsibility to make house to house visits and vest this party to its real owners, the people.\u00a0 The party with the highest number of membership today is the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna.We are coming not to break parties but to win elections.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the convenor of the joint opposition and the Gampaha district parliamentarian Mr. Prasanna Ranatunga speaking at this meeting said that that the puppet who calls himself as the leader of the SLFP has made the party a puppet dancing in the hands of the UNP. He said that the Sri Lanka Freedom Party has fallen into a deep abyss today.\u00a0 MR. Ranatunga said that the late Mr. S..W.R.D.Bandaranaike letft the UNP and formed the Sri Lanka Freedom Party because the policies of the UNP were not suitable for this country.\u00a0 But today the person who calls himself as the leader of the Party has tied the party to the tail of the UNP elephant.<\/p>\n

Today the Darley Road SLFP is working under the instructions of the UNP. He stated that because of the myopic leadership of one person the SLFP members in the government have been forced to join the UNP\u2019s despicable murderous journey of selling the national resources of the country, curtailing an suppressing workers\u2019 rights through thugs and drug addicts and supporting other repressive measures.<\/p>\n

He said as that SLFPers with backbones they opposed the programme of consuming the spoiled food in the UNP kitchen from the very beginning but some who have no backing of the people and rejected by the people went and joined the UNP saying that they are joining a National Government. It is those who are ready to consume UNP spoiled food are supporting this government.\u00a0 Those who love the country can never support this government, he said.(niz)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Translated by : A.A.M.NIZAM \u2013 MATARA The former Minister of Economic Development Mr. Basil Rajapaksa said that under a government that will be established in the future headed by Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa the Hambantota harbour sold by Maithri-Ranil Junta would definitely be nationalized. He said that this agreement which had been signed by wrong personalities […]<\/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-68416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aamnizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68416","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=68416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}