{"id":74814,"date":"2018-02-15T23:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T05:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=74814"},"modified":"2018-02-15T16:27:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T23:27:31","slug":"when-are-they-going-to-stop-this-dhushana-mantharaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/15\/when-are-they-going-to-stop-this-dhushana-mantharaya\/","title":{"rendered":"When are they going to stop this Dhushana mantharaya ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The Governments of all countries are at one time or another accused of corruption. The recent victims are Israel and South Africa. But no country in the world has made corruption an issue\u00a0 at their election campaigns, as elections are conducted on other issues vital for the development, social welfare, security and defence of countries.<\/p>\n

But Sri Lanka has been an exception, as the Presidential election campaign of the Present Government of Sirisena and Ranil Wickramasinghe\u00a0 had no valid \u00a0issue for an election campaign\u00a0 in a peaceful and rapidly developing Sri Lanka under the President Mahinda Rajapakse, \u00a0other than hollering a political slogan hastily \u00a0prepared by the secret services of the West, that\u00a0 the\u00a0 Rajapakse Regime is corrupt and are thieves and therefore the Rajapakse regime should be changed \u2013Dhushana Mantharaya.<\/p>\n

That worked as perhaps the people thought that though President Mahinda Rajapakse brought about peace , security and a higher standard of living to a people that had been suffering under terrorism for thirty years, it may be they are corrupt and stealing state funds.<\/p>\n

The na\u00efve people with their natural greed to always have more than what they already have , may have thought that if\u00a0 there were to be a change, perhaps a new regime led by a simple farmer\u2019s son \u00a0Maithripala Sirisena, and a Royal College educated\u00a0 clean politician as they have been made to understand, \u00a0\u00a0may recover what had been stolen by the Rajapakse Regime and give it back to the people assuring them a still higher standard of living, with more money in their hands.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, Ranil- Sirisena duo\u00a0 promised a salary increase of Rs.10000,00 to all government servants and that would be the little drip which would signals the deluge of money\u00a0 robbed by the Rajapakse Regime to\u00a0 flow into every ones pockets . Hence except for the 58 lacks of honest Sinhala Buddhists the rest voted for the change of Regime\u00a0 and more money to come to them.<\/p>\n

But the Ranil Wickramasinghe, if he would come back to politics saddled with a na\u00efve farmer\u2019s son had other plans for himself and his UNP which had been denied the chance to dip their\u00a0 hands\u00a0 into the till containing \u00a0millions of dollars flowing into the country for various development projects of Mahibda Rajapakse Regime.<\/p>\n

What happened after Sirisena Ranil duo came to power on the slogan down with corrupt thieves of the Rajapakse Regime- the Dushana Mantharaya<\/strong>, is now history ?<\/p>\n

Poor Maithripala Sirisena who placed his entire trust in the hands of Ranil Wickrmasinghe – a clever political manipulator-a cunning fox, the Agent of the West,\u00a0 abandoned the political party which nurtured him for 47 years\u00a0 for the promise of the Presidency of Sri Lanka. On the 8th<\/sup> January,2015 when Sirisena found himself\u00a0 elected President , he became forever indebted to Ranil Wickramasinghe , and hated\u00a0 President Mahinda Rajapakse who\u00a0 considered him unfit to be even the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

To day we see to what extent Sirisena is attached to Ranil. Sirisena is ready even to give up the Presidency of the SLFP that was thrust upon him on the 9 th January, 2015, to continue even in defeat to be the lapdog of Ranil Wickramasinghe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena in taking his uncertain steps as a newly appointed President had a number of NGO operators like Srilal Laktilleke,Nimal Devasiri and Civil Society organisations, Ratana Hamuduruvo, Asoka and numerous others to advice him as to what he should do to give the people the expected change for which he was elected on the 8th<\/sup> January, 2015.<\/p>\n

They gave him the wrong advice, and while his Prime Minister was planning Bond Scams Sirisena as the President agreed to undo every thing Mahinda Rajapakse had undertaken . He suspended the Chinese Port City project along with other development projects started by the previous Rajapakse Regime.<\/p>\n

He followed the wrong advice and as a result Sri Lanka is far more poor than it was on the 8th<\/sup> January,2015. \u00a0There was no end of hollering of the Dushana Mantharaya-<\/strong> corruption\u00a0 and the theft by the Rajapakse Regime. Ranil with his Batalanda Experience started the FCID to arrest the\u00a0 thieves of the Rajapakse clan, its supporters and the members of the officials of the Rajapakse government.<\/p>\n

Dushana Mantharaya repeated again and again showed no results it was just empty hollering to fool the people. But now the people refuse to be fooled- Dushana Mantharaya has no effect any more.<\/strong><\/p>\n

People who expected to profit from the loot the Rajapakse Regime was said to have accumulated\u00a0 are dissatisfied\u00a0 as no loot has been found,\u00a0 but Sirsena Ranil Government continues to make a big noise harping on the same old boring slogan of corruption and theft\u00a0 by the Rajapakse Regime and taking into custody only children , women and a few who did \u00a0nothing else but did their work.<\/p>\n

But profiting from the situation instead of catching thieves of the Rajapakse Regime, the Prime Minister has organised looting the Central Bank.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The people having \u00a0had enough, took every opportunity to fill the meetings of the defeated President Mahinda Rajapakse, to show their disappointment with Maithripala Sirsena-Ranil Wickramasingha Regime .<\/p>\n

We heard nothing but the Dhushanaya Mantharaya for the last three years\u00a0 and northing else, and the people are fedup of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally the people got the opportunity at last at the \u00a0Local Government Polls on the 10th<\/sup> February,2018 to show their disapproval of the Sirisena Ranil Government by a mammoth vote against the candidates put forward by\u00a0 both Maithripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickramasinghe, and giving their votes to candidates presented by the political party Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna supported by the\u00a0 President Mahinda Rajapakse, to show there regret for having changed the Rajapakse Regime to bring in a Sirisena Ranil Regime that stole from the people every thing they had gained from the former Rajapakse Regime.<\/p>\n

Now \u00a0on the 10 February ,2018, at the Local Government election\u00a0 the people have voted largely for the candidates of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna of Mahinda Rajapakse. The Sirsena Ranil Regime remains defeated before the eyes of the people. The democratic thing for any government which has seen a political party opposed to it has won a far greater \u00a0number of votes is to resign to respect the decision\u00a0 of the people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But when it was said from the beginning that the change of Rajapakse Regime was a collective effort of the Western Governments and India interposing the CIA,MI6 and RAW lot of people refused to believe it. <\/strong><\/p>\n

But, it became evident \u00a0when after the 10 February,2018 Sirisena- Ranil Government had been rejected by the people by their\u00a0 vote for \u00a0the candidates put forward\u00a0 by their opponent\u2019s \u00a0political Party Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, the beleaguered\u201d Sirisena and\u00a0 Ranil were considering \u00a0separately their next moves available to them, the media reported that they saw the Ambassador \u00a0for USA in Sri Lanka Atul Keshup, and Taranjit Singh the High Commissioner of India driving in to Araliyagaha Mandiraya the Official Residence of the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The outcome of the diplomatic advise would be for the President Sirisena and Prime Minister\u00a0 Ranil to \u00a0come to terms and stay together, which they would continue to follow. Because for this Yahapalanaya the obedience to USA ,\u00a0 West and India matters more than the people who vote for them.<\/p>\n

In the meantime TV debates vie to find out why the people voted massively to\u00a0 candidates of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna of the defeated Rajapakse Regime. Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna which has now become the most popular political party of the people say that the people have demonstrated \u00a0by their massive vote against the candidates of the political \u00a0parties in power, that they reject the Sirisena Ranil Government.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0 such Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna argues that the people has made use of the first occasion provided to them after three and a half year of the disastrous rule by the Yahapalanaya Government to show their distrust of the government and reject their continuation to rule the country.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the accepted democratic norms require both the President and the Prime Minister to accept defeat and resign allowing the people to elect another President and have another Government. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, supporters of Sirisena Ranil Regime, the NGO\u2019s Civil organisations\u00a0 and Sirilal Laktilleke et al, who failed to advice correctly the President at the beginning come back again to give the President false hope,\u00a0 and break further the trust of the people, \u00a0argue that that popular vote\u00a0 for the candidates of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna is only a vote for the election of local PC Councillors and therefore has no bearing on the Government.<\/p>\n

But it is apparent that people who expected so much from this government which began by giving the Government Servants a salary increase of Rs.10000,00 despite stopping their pension rights, has become poor and unable to live decently well and demands a replacement of the Yahapalanaya government which has failed to satisfy the demands of the people and which has\u00a0 pushed the country deeper into an economic disaster by the Bank robberies, and bribery and corruption in construction of highways, distribution of employment for their political supporters etc.<\/p>\n

Therefore the massive vote for the LG candidates presented by the \u00a0Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna is undoubtedly a vote against the Yahapalanaya Government of President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minster Ranil Wickramasinghe, and it is a statement that they do not want to be ruled further by\u00a0 the YAHAPALANAYA Government.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dhushana Mantharaya has not worked and it is time it is stopped and Yahapalanaya crowd says Good Bye to the people, allowing someone else bring back a little happiness to the people who had suffered in expectation for three years since 8th<\/sup> January,2015<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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