{"id":75308,"date":"2018-03-05T12:57:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T19:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=75308"},"modified":"2018-03-05T12:57:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T19:57:28","slug":"will-mahinda-and-jo-leaders-vote-for-the-no-confidence-motion-against-ranil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/03\/05\/will-mahinda-and-jo-leaders-vote-for-the-no-confidence-motion-against-ranil\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Mahinda and JO Leaders Vote for the No Confidence Motion Against Ranil?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
If all go to plan, the no confidence motion against Ranil by the courageous and patriotic UNP MP Vasantha Senanayake will be taken up on March 7, 2018. Will Mahinda and JO leaders vote for it, or will they prefer to abscond? If they fail to vote in support of the no confidence motion, it proves beyond all doubt that they have a secret pact with the UNP. After implicated in the largest bank fraud of the world and after messing up with national security, law and order and the economy, no right thinking person would save him.<\/span>
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UNP MP Vasantha Senanayake must be commended for his courage and patriotism if he actually manages to bring in the no confidence motion. Although the JO vowed to do so at the start of the year, they have failed and they are unlikely to ever do so.<\/span>
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This follows a series of dubious action and inaction from JO leaders for the past 3 years. Those who are in leadership roles of the JO publicly boasted about bringing a no confidence motion against Ravi Karunanayake in 2015 over the central bank bond fraud. Had it been done properly, the second associated fraud would not have taken place. A funny no confidence motion was handed over to the Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa at his official residence on May 19, 2015! When did no confidence motions become matters outside the parliament? This was a gimmick to fool the public. Obviously it was not taken up in parliament for over a month and the parliament was dissolved on June 25, 2015. The MPs should have handed it over to their very own Speaker in parliament (not outside) and the Speaker should have taken up the matter within one month.<\/span>
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In 2016 a proper no confidence motion was handed over to parliament and Speaker Karu Jayasuriya duly took it up for debate and voting within a few days. However, Mahinda and some key JO leaders were absent from debate and voting!<\/span>
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After presidential commissions handed over their findings of the bond scam, JO leaders vowed to bring a no confidence motion against Ranil whose name was also included in the report. This was at the start of the year. Over three months have passed but the JO no confidence motion is missing in action.<\/span>
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It is politically expedient to keep Ranil as Prime Minister for the Mahinda camp but from a national point of view, it is treason. Ranil has done enough damage to the national economy and national security that he must go. The longer he is kept, the more damage he does to national interests. He is already a failure as law and order minister. So was his predecessor Sagala Rathnayake. Just for two weeks, police brutally attacked students, farmers and workers but turned a blind eye to communal incidents in Theldeniya and Ampara that resulted in the killing of a Sinhala man and poisoning of a Sinhala party at an eatery. Obviously the SLPP has also turned a blind eye while their supporters demand that it disregards the sad plight of Sinhalese. There are more than one reason why social media are abuzz with claims of a UNP-SLPP behind the scene pact possibly going by these action that seem well concerted. It is hoped that JO leaders and MPs will vote for the no confidence motion against Ranil though the past and social media theories point to the contrary. By the way, I’m still waiting for that elusive JO no confidence motion against Ranil that is still a work in progress since late last year.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dilrook Kannangara If all go to plan, the no confidence motion against Ranil by the courageous and patriotic UNP MP Vasantha Senanayake will be taken up on March 7, 2018. Will Mahinda and JO leaders vote for it, or will they prefer to abscond? If they fail to vote in support of the no confidence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75308","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=75308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}