{"id":73014,"date":"2017-12-21T16:49:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T23:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73014"},"modified":"2017-12-21T16:49:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T23:49:54","slug":"make-provincial-council-elections-a-referendum-against-sirisena-ranil-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/12\/21\/make-provincial-council-elections-a-referendum-against-sirisena-ranil-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Provincial Council Elections a Referendum Against Sirisena \u2013Ranil Government."},"content":{"rendered":"

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

It appears that this so called Yahapalanaya \u00a0government cannot be removed until 2020, but we can perhaps force it to change by showing its unpopularity amoung the people, by electing Provincial Council candidates from the Podujana Peramuna.<\/p>\n

Podujana Peramuna represents the original SLFP of SWRD Bandaranayake. Podujana Peramuna also has the parliamentarians from the previous Mahinda Rajapakse Government which had contributed to the development of Sri Lanka into a modern country despite the continued braying by the Yahapalanaya of corruption.<\/p>\n

We will go on to\u00a0 see why President Sirisena\u2019 SLFP and Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe\u2019s\u00a0 UNP are neither people friendly, nor are they capable of\u00a0 developing the country. But people see how under their leadership the country is backsliding from where it was before January,2015, towards being a failed state with no future. The only prospect of for the country under them is its being territorial broken up,\u00a0 and communally separated.<\/p>\n

The JVP which also \u00a0helped to bring into power the SLFP-UNP joint yahpalanaya has now become its bitter critic to bluff the people into believing that they are the best alternative to rule the Provincial Councils, \u00a0or the Country after the failure of \u00a0the SLFP and the UNP as rulers.<\/p>\n

The JVP \u00a0politicians who make the biggest rumpus, to deliver nothing have not won the trust of the ordinary people. JVP had \u00a0been working incessantly for the continuation of the disastrous policies of UNP, \u00a0therefore the people should\u00a0 not vote for them at the Provincial Council election.<\/p>\n

Now let us see what we the Sri Lankans have to do today with the Local Government elections in the Agenda ?<\/p>\n

Lets us see why \u00a0we should vote against the Provincial Council Candidates put forward by the Political Parties which compose \u00a0\u00a0Sirisena Ranil Yahapalanaya Government.<\/p>\n

Sirisena-Ranil Yahapalanaya Government has denied for more than two and a half years the democratic right of the people \u00a0to have their own elected representatives to help them in their every day needs at provincial and village levels. \u00a0These political parties which \u00a0make up the\u00a0 so called \u00a0Yahapalanaya-SLFP, UNP, JVP,SLMC,JHU,TNA etc. \u00a0have no \u00a0right to present their representatives at\u00a0 provincial and village levels as they too\u00a0 would only bring about the same disaster they have brought \u00a0to the country at Parliamentary level ?<\/p>\n

Do our people at provincial and village levels \u00a0really know what Maithripala\u00a0 Sirisena-Ranil Wickramasinghe have done to Sri Lanka since 8th<\/sup> January,2015, or are they still listening only \u00a0to the \u00a0horrors these Yahapalanaya Champions say that had been done to Sri Lanka by the President Mahinda Rajapakse ?<\/p>\n

But the peoples of every community, despite the ranting of their political leaders know that they\u00a0 would not have seen the change Sri Lanka went through from 2005 to 2014 under Mahinda Rajapakse. And they also know what negative effect the development of Sri Lanka faced after the election of\u00a0 Sirisena-Ranil Yahapalanaya. The Yahapalanaya\u00a0 rule during the period 2015 to 2017 had been an utter failure, without a singly development project they can say they have undertaken and completed.<\/p>\n

President Sirisena keeps ordering the Armed Forces to vacate the land they occupy in the North and East and hands them over to the Tamils to facilitate reconciliation, while Wigneswaran refuses to allow Sinhala refugees to go back to their lands in the North, and Sumanthiran damands the \u00a0removal of \u00a0Buddhism \u00a0from State protection and\u00a0 write a new Constitution making Sri Lanka a secular country .<\/p>\n

Under these circumstances where\u00a0 is reconciliation ?<\/p>\n

It is evident that Wigneswaran, Sivajilingam, Sumanthiran and the rest do not want\u00a0 reconciliation. Therefore why should we allow Sirisena and Ranil to sell \u00a0in the pretex of reconciliation, the Sinhala \u00a0Buddhist Culture , their \u00a0religion and all that rightly belong to them to please the Tamils.<\/p>\n

That is why it is imperative that the people show through their vote\u00a0 at the Provincial Council Elections, that they do not want \u00a0the Yahapalanaya Government of Sirisena and Ranil decide the future of Sri Lanka and its people.<\/p>\n

President Sirisena takes every opportunity to accuse the former President Mahinda Rajapakse \u00a0\u00a0for some fraud or another . Sirisena now makes a big issue of\u00a0 the sale of 10 acres of land to Sangrilla Hotel shifting the Sri Lanka Army Head Quarters from Colombo Fort making Colombo unsafe, while he had allowed the sale of the Hambanthota harbour and thousands of acres of prime land to China.<\/p>\n

The danger to Colombo may come again from the terrorists in the North or the sleeping terrorists encouraged by Wigneswaran the new Prabhakaran of the North .\u201d\u2013 The means to challenge such a threat would be\u00a0 by keeping a larger numbers of military camps in the North and East. But instead of that President Maithripala Sirisena \u00a0continues to disband military camps in the North and distribute the land amoung the people.<\/p>\n

But Sirsena does not seem to know\u00a0 that when the Army Head Quarters was removed from Colombo Fort, Mahinda Rajapakse\u00a0 had already started\u00a0 to construct\u00a0 at Pelawatte using the money received from the sale of the land to Sangrilla, a Sri Lanka Defence Head Quarters worthy of Sri Lanka\u2019s \u00a0terrorist war winning heroic Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately \u00a0the construction of \u00a0new Head Quarters\u00a0 for the\u00a0 Armed Forces \u00a0was stopped on Rajitha Seanaratne\u2019s accusation of a financial Fraud. They have still failed to find evidence of such fraud but the construction work of the Head Quarters at Pelwatta have come to stop.<\/p>\n

Maihripala Sirisena- Ranil Wickramasinghe\u00a0 SLFP UNP joint Government do not speak for Buddhists or Buddhism as it affects negatively their reconciliation process with the Tamils. This absurd reconciliation\u00a0 is the demand of the friends of Yahapalanaya- USA , the West and Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al-Hussein the HC UNHRC.<\/p>\n

Recently the USAmbassador had even said that Sri Lanka should have a Federal Constitution !!!<\/p>\n

UNP from D.S.Senanayake down to Ranil Wickramasinghe are not supporters of Buddhism. On this it is worth reading what Janaka Perera had written in an article to Lankaweb on the 20th<\/sup> December,2017.<\/p>\n

Mettananda noticed that the Prime Minister D.S. Senanayake\u2019s Government was neither prepared to give Government patronage to Buddhism as in the pre-colonial days nor was it keen to give to the Buddhists the same rights the Christians enjoyed in all spheres of society. Had the UNP rulers been far-sighted enough to enforce at least the latter policy, this country would have been spared of the many upheavals that followed. It is very unfortunate that UNP election manifestos failed to focus on the restoration of the rights of the majority which were trampled en masse by the British Raj.\u2026\u2026\u2026.Among the many contenders to shoulder the mantle of Anagarika Dharmapala\u2019s legacy and to continue his work to restore Buddhism to its due place in Lankan society particularly in the difficult transitional phase of the country\u2019s history is L.H. Mettananda.He gave voice to the calls of the Buddhists to re-establish a Buddhist Social Order as existed in the pre-colonial period, though has not materialized to date due to the machinations of anti-Buddhist forces and other dubious elements.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the beginning the Yahapalanaya Government of Maithripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickramasinghe had shown that\u00a0 they are only capable of\u00a0 pointing their fingers of accusation at others. They have at no point of time pointed their accusatory fingers at themselves, to do an introspection of themselves to see what wrongs they have done, and where they have gone wrong.<\/p>\n

Their obsession of the President Mahinda Rajapakse , and their determination to take revenge from him has resulted in Sri Lanka, which was developing into being\u00a0 a modern stated since 2005, become\u00a0 poorer, its economy on the slump, lose its sovereignty being constantly interfered into by the USA, the West and the UN, with all development projects neglected , its wealth sold to China and India.<\/p>\n

The Air Lanka- the National Air Line has been \u00a0neglected and is on the verge of bankruptcy. The Yahapalanaya\u00a0 has allowed our Central Bank to be stolen, allowed Sri Lanka loose its unique identity as a Buddhist Sinhala country, allowed\u00a0 Sri Lanka \u00a0loose its ancient cultural values, denied the government servants their pension rights, divided the people, and taken away peace and protection that was restored in 2009 by Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

Under this Sirisena -Ranil Government even our tea has lost its commercial importance , and our tea is for the first time\u00a0 refused to be purchased by foreign countries.<\/p>\n

It is these facts that should be highlighted to make the people vote against the UNP and SLFP Candidates, and the candidates of the JVP at the coming Provincial Council Elections, encouraging them\u00a0 to vote en mass for the candidates of the Podujana Peramuna <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera It appears that this so called Yahapalanaya \u00a0government cannot be removed until 2020, but we can perhaps force it to change by showing its unpopularity amoung the people, by electing Provincial Council candidates from the Podujana Peramuna. Podujana Peramuna represents the original SLFP of SWRD Bandaranayake. Podujana Peramuna also has the parliamentarians from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73014","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=73014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}