{"id":68611,"date":"2017-08-06T16:19:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T23:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68611"},"modified":"2017-08-06T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T23:20:10","slug":"what-can-cbk-do-in-this-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/08\/06\/what-can-cbk-do-in-this-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT can CBK do in this mess?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>UPAL COORAY\u00a0Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"article_date\">August 6, 2017, 8:24 pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A key figure in the 2015 overthrow of the Rajapaksa government, and the mentor of President Sirisena as well as back seat driver of the Yahapalana government, is unheard of these days. She is the head of the office of national unity and reconciliation. She was in the forefront of preaching a federal solution to the national question. Surely, the work in this sphere is not the only endeavor she has to carry through. She is obliged to save her beleaguered prodigy, Maithripala Sirisena and her childhood friend Ranil, later adversary now turned chum, coming under an avalanche of allegations unheard in Sri Lanka since it became a Democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Her personal fuming animosity against the Rajasksas is well known. She will go to any extent to ensure Mahinda does not grab power again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.island.lk\/modules\/modPublication\/article_title_images\/1695431134what.jpg\" alt=\"article_image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is high time she expresses her views about the bond scam and Ravi Karunanayake&#8217;s Penthouse. As one of the stalwarts who created this government, she has a moral responsibility to speak out. Late Ven. Sobitha would have castigated the yahapalanaya he himself was responsible for formulation. This bhikku was a forthright person. Chandrika speaking out on this is far-fetched.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking on the subject long years ago S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike told the State Council everything is done to protect those with influence while others are thrown in to ravenous wolves.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing seems to have changed. It was only his daughter, former President Chandrika Kumaratunga, who was found guilty of corruption and abuse of power and fined by the Supreme Court in the Water&#8217;s Edge case, and that too not in a case prosecuted by the State but by public spirited citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore her silence is pretty well explained by the dictum. &#8220;Ova denu parahata, thama sammathehi pihita sita&#8221;(Physician heal thyself &#8220;)<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What can CBK do in this mess? Common sense makes it expedient for her to stay put.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>UPAL COORAY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPAL COORAY\u00a0Courtesy The Island August 6, 2017, 8:24 pm A key figure in the 2015 overthrow of the Rajapaksa government, and the mentor of President Sirisena as well as back seat driver of the Yahapalana government, is unheard of these days. She is the head of the office of national unity and reconciliation. She was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68611","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=68611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}