{"id":76050,"date":"2018-03-29T23:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=76050"},"modified":"2018-03-29T15:47:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T22:47:22","slug":"president-sirisena-took-three-years-and-three-months-to-realize-that-ranil-is-not-fit-to-do-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/03\/29\/president-sirisena-took-three-years-and-three-months-to-realize-that-ranil-is-not-fit-to-do-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"President Sirisena took three years and three months to realize that Ranil is not fit to do anything?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sudath Gunasekara <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

29.3.2918.
\nAnyway the whole country must thank him for taking the Central Bank from Ranil at least after three years and putting it once again under the Finance Ministry. Actually he should have not allowed its transfer from the M\/F at the very outset as it is unconventional and suspicious too (although the President has not smelt it) and stopped it as the President of the country who is responsible to people. As such he too cannot be fully exculpated from the sins of the CB scam as he cannot say he is innocent and not responsible for what his PM has done on eight counts.<\/p>\n

First it was he who appointed Ranil as the PM violating the Constitution and the accepted Parliamentary procedure of the need to appoint the person who commands the majority in the House as the PM. Second having appointed him illegally as the PM he also allowed Ranil to take over the CB as preplanned. Third allowed him to import a non- citizen who had long links with the LTTE purely on his political and family connection he had with the appointee. Fourth he also kept silent while Ranil, Ravi and Mahendran together manipulated the Bank robbery allowing them to interfere with the Bond Auction mechanism and even going to the extent of telling the major state Banks to fix the bid rates as directed by the PM and the Minister of Finance to enable Arjun Aloysius to get the awards. Fifth he kept silent when the first scam was revealed. Sixth he dissolved the Parliament just before the Cope Report was to be presented to Parliament in August 2015 allowing a General election Seventh he also obstructed Mahinda Rajapaksa getting elected, as the PM using all his powers as the president resorting to very law and even illegal tactics to influence the electorate to vote for Ranil and against MR. This enabled Ranil to get elected, though with 106 seats, still behind the required majority to form a Government. Eighth he appointed Ranil again as the Pm violating the Constitution and the accepted Parliamentary procedures and enabled Ranil to continue as the PM up to date.<\/p>\n

In this backdrop he is also culpable and responsible not only for the mega loot his own PM has conspired and committed but also for all the failures of this government up to date. So he cannot wash off his hands now claiming innocence and put the whole blame on Ranil. Even a tiny tot would say there is no point in closing the gates of the stall after the horse has bolted. Anyway it is some relief to the whole country as there is no room for Ranil and his gang now to rob any more from the Banks and mismanage the economy as the some more vital sections and institutions have been removed from him.<\/p>\n

However the President has to take extreme care that this decision too will not face the same fate the other decisions he has taken during the past three years especially the one taken over the Vilpattu encroachment by Rishard Badurdeen.<\/p>\n

At least now he must stand firm on this decision and prove that he also can take firm decisions at least when he is compelled and forced to do so by circumstances and the public. But here again he should take guard against any interference by Chandrika as she had already declared in style as usual, two days ago that Ranil will remain as the PM until 2020. It is also advisable for him to keep Chandrika completely out of his government as it will be very much better for his health. While thanking her for enabling him to be the President of this country in 2015 Jan, for it would never has happened if not for the conspiracy hatched by her to get Sirisena out of the SLFP and arrange the marriage between the two, at least now for his safety he should get completely divorced from her vicious influence.<\/p>\n

Next in order to consolidate his position as the President, at least now, he must demand Ranil to produce his chum Mahendran from where ever he hides, or advised him to hide, as he should definitely know where he is. Because Ranil was the one who got him down having promised him the Governorship long before Jan 2015; he was the one who insisted that Mahendran should be appointed as the Governor when the President objected; he was the one who got him appointed saying that he takes full responsibility for Mhendrans actions as the Governor; he was the one who defended M after the first bond scam; he was the one who requested the President to appoint M for a second term. He was the one who got M appointed as a special advisor to him after he was removed by the President from the Bank and finally he was the one who enabled M to leave the county when the whole robbery was getting exposed and in spite of the fact that even by that time the whole country had identified M as tsecond most important culprit in this robbery.<\/p>\n

Until M is produced, I wonder as to why the President can\u2019t order the law enforcing authorities to arrest Ranil in view of the above connivances and furthermore as the man who stood security for Mahendran as it is the normal legal procedure adopted when an accused absconds in hiding. Such action on his part will further relieve the President of his obvious culpability on the CB scam at lest and tolerate him as the President until end of 2019, even if the disgruntled UNP brings an impeachment on him as already some UNPers like Vajira Abewardhana have stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sudath Gunasekara 29.3.2918. Anyway the whole country must thank him for taking the Central Bank from Ranil at least after three years and putting it once again under the Finance Ministry. Actually he should have not allowed its transfer from the M\/F at the very outset as it is unconventional and suspicious too (although […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sudath-gunasekara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76050","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=76050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}