{"id":74888,"date":"2018-02-17T21:23:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T03:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=74888"},"modified":"2018-02-17T14:21:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T21:21:22","slug":"massive-peoples-vote-to-candidates-of-slpp-on-10-february2018-was-a-vote-against-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/17\/massive-peoples-vote-to-candidates-of-slpp-on-10-february2018-was-a-vote-against-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive people\u2019s vote\u00a0 to candidates of SLPP on 10 February,2018 was\u00a0 a vote against the Government."},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Dambara Amila\u00a0 thero , was seated with anti Buddhist Anti Sinhala\u00a0 NGO clique- Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu, Nimalka Fernando , Chameera Perera, Saman Ratnapriya and host of others demanding that the war winning Army Commander Sarath Fonseka be appointed as the\u00a0 Law and Order Minister to bring long delayed\u00a0 high profile investigations\u00a0 against the previous regime\u00a0 to a successful conclusion.<\/p>\n

The people have rejected long time ago the Buddhist monks in politics. Dambara Amila is no exception. He accuses the Monks of the Bodu Bala Sena for being disrespectful to the teachings of the Buddha. To quote a clich\u00e9, \u00a0it is the pot calling the kettle Black ?<\/p>\n

As Bodu Bala Sena does not promote reconciliation which is a catch phrase of the foreign financed NGOs, Gnanasara thero is more acceptable than the Dambara Amila thero representing the\u00a0 NGO clique.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka is not Colombo, Galle, Kandy or Hambantota towns. It was the ordinary people of Sri Lanka – the heart of the country\u2019s culture, national patriotic sensibility, and the voice of the masses which on the 10 February, 2018 rejected the Yahapalanaya Government which mismanaged the country for the past three years.<\/p>\n

Ravi Karunanayake surrounded by some of the Colombo North Supporters said that the UNP is prepared to go forward, with the promise it gave to the people on the 8th<\/sup> January,2015. His people in Colombo north applaud and encourage him, but Colombo North is not the \u00a0measure of the pulse of the real people of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Karunanayaka is another crab in the same pot along with Dambara Amila. The water is beginning to get warm and they may\u00a0 feel quite comfortable, but wait a little longer to understand what is in store for them when the water begins to heat up.<\/p>\n

We saw Ratana thero and\u00a0 Champika Ranawaka trying to impale the President Mahinda Rajapakse \u00a0who gave the people peace and security , which the ordinary people who really suffered under\u00a0 terrorism and sacrificed their children for the victory over the terrorists will never forget.<\/p>\n

It is still the war heroes who sacrificed their friends in the struggle, gave their blood and limbs to save the country for us to live in peace and without fear, \u00a0who stand up to defend our country against traitors of the nation like the Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera who sold the good name of Sri Lanka Armed Forces at the Geneva UN Human Rights Council asking forgiveness from Sri Lanka\u2019s foreign enemies\u00a0 for errors committed by the Sri Lanka Armed forces\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 like a gutter rat before wild cats.<\/p>\n

In contrast our war heroes do not cringe\u00a0 even in foreign countries to defend our country and our Armed Forces. Against all odds our war heroes do not to allow the enemies of Sri Lanka to insult and shame the Nation, \u00a0as\u00a0 it was demonstrated by the fearless war hero Brigadier Priyanka Fernando, the Defence Counsellor of the Sri Lanka High Commission in UK, when the diaspora Tamils trampled on the\u00a0 lion flag of Sri Lanka,\u00a0 hoisting shamelessly the flag of the\u00a0 LTTE Terrorist, \u00a0\u00a0or \u00a0by Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara a former Chief of Staff of Sri Lanka Navy\u00a0 who against tremendous odds to secure time and space at the sessions of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva\u00a0 presented \u00a0the case\u00a0 of the Sri Lankans the victims of the LTTE terrorist Campaign\u00a0 for over three decades.<\/p>\n

Dambara Amila thero undoubtedly a beneficiary of the NGO largess , should know that as a Buddhist Priest\u00a0 and a Scholar of the Jayawardhanapura University he should be with the ordinary people of the country and not with theNGO clique \u00a0who are doing their job of serving their NGO masters shamelessly betraying their own country. Dambara Amila thero \u00a0should know better that Sarath Fonseka, whom\u00a0 he proposes to be the Minister of Law and order is not\u00a0 a democratic politician. He is a soldier still in uniform and law and order is not his immediate concern, but to take revenge from the former President and\u00a0 his Defence Secretary for no valid reason .<\/p>\n

Army Commander Sarath Fonseka was imprisoned by a\u00a0 Court-Marshall, accused for allowing a Company set up by his son-in-law to profit from the sale of Bullets to the Army. There was also a talk about him having received several bundles of Dollar notes from an unknown source.<\/p>\n

Therefore, it appears \u00a0Sarath Fonseka \u00a0is not entirely innocent of the accusations for which he was imprisoned. Further more Sarath Fonseka despite being \u00a0in the Parliament is still in mind and heart a soldier- as I read some where- he walks like a soldier , talks like a soldier and acts like soldier. Where therefore is his talent\u201d to be a Minister of Law and Order that Dambara Amila sees in him ?<\/p>\n

Is Dambara Amila thero with the NGO clique, \u00a0in like company supporting Sarath Fonseka\u00a0 to be the Minister of Law and Order or does it mean that Dambara Amila thero has still not grown up to understand\u00a0 the gravity of \u00a0his spurious statements.<\/p>\n

All these NGO activists have become President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s\u00a0 close advisors. Three of them in a previous Derana TV debate Aluth Parliamenthuwak\u201d were dribbling profusely trying to defend the stand they propose the President to take against the massive support received by his opponent the former President Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

One can of course say that \u00a0the people voted to elect their representative to the Provincial Councils and therefore, \u00a0it has no bearing on the unity government- the Yahapalanaya.<\/p>\n

The crowds at elections meetings do not indicate the popularity of\u00a0 one party or another and that the crowds of people at any meeting\u00a0 would vote for the candidates presented by that party.<\/p>\n

But when the Government in place has failed to contribute to the welfare of the people or reduced the cost of living to allow them to live a comfortable life, how can the people show their disapproval ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The only way \u00a0the people had,\u00a0 was to attend in large numbers the meetings opposing the Yahapalanaya \u00a0Government, as there had been no elections to show their opposition to the government by their vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hence, \u00a0in the case of this unpopular Yahapalanaya Government, when the people after three years of waiting, got the only chance of showing their opposition to the continuation of the Yahapalanaya\u00a0 by casting their vote, \u00a0was at the Local government elections of the 10 February, 2018.\u00a0 They did that by giving a massive vote for the candidates put forward by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna which opposed the Yahapalanaya Government.<\/p>\n

Therefore, \u00a0the massive vote of the people should not be underestimated \u00a0by the\u00a0 defeated political parties the UNP, the SLFP and the JVP , by playing with numbers and percentages to to show that the people\u2019s vote was not against the Government , but only to elect their local representatives.<\/p>\n

When \u00a0JVP won no local authority , SLFP has won \u00a0only 11 , TNA only 38 , the UNP only 42 and SLPP 249. They still without accepting the lower number of LGs they have won\u00a0 go on arguing that the 249 LGs SLPP won are less than the actual number as 162 LGs will have problems electing a SLPP candidate as the Chairman, and those LGs may have to elect a Chairman from UNP, or SLFP. But that is an argument of fools, \u00a0as still the largest number of LGs have been won by the SLPP .<\/p>\n

Therefore,\u00a0 there is no doubt that the 10th<\/sup> February,2018 vote of the people for LG elections was a vote by the people against the Government and the Government has no moral right any further to continue to be in place.<\/p>\n

Both the President and the Prime Minister should therefore resign in the name of Democracy, if they still, respect it, and allow the people to elect another President and another Prime Minister.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is the only thing to do if there is no provision in the Constitution for the President to dismiss the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charles .S.Perera Dambara Amila\u00a0 thero , was seated with anti Buddhist Anti Sinhala\u00a0 NGO clique- Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu, Nimalka Fernando , Chameera Perera, Saman Ratnapriya and host of others demanding that the war winning Army Commander Sarath Fonseka be appointed as the\u00a0 Law and Order Minister to bring long delayed\u00a0 high profile investigations\u00a0 against the […]<\/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-74888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74888","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=74888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}