{"id":76093,"date":"2018-03-31T11:44:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T18:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=76093"},"modified":"2018-07-29T16:25:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T23:25:22","slug":"no-confidence-motion-quovadis-j-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/03\/31\/no-confidence-motion-quovadis-j-o\/","title":{"rendered":"NO CONFIDENCE MOTION: QUOVADIS J.O?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sugath Samarasinghe<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

I do not understand the strategy of the JO in moving this No Confidence Motion against Ranil Wickramasinghe. What is their ultimate goal, I wonder?<\/p>\n

Immediately after the victory of Israel after their famous Six Day War where they trounced the braggart UAR in 1967, a journalist asked Israeli General Moshe Dayan, What is the best way to win a war?. General Dayan quipped Have the Arabs on the other side!\u201d\u00a0 Similarly, the easiest way for the JO to win the elections in 2019 and 2020 is to have Ranil leading the UNP. Surely that is not rocket science? He has a proven track record of losing multiple elections for UNP other than in August 2015; and that too a lame victory. In fact Mahinda Rajapaksa, a shrewd tactician, helped Ranil to continue as leader of the UNP several times as if by mutual understanding, during his time as President.<\/p>\n

Ranil has even proved this point himself in the recent Local Government by polling only 32% for the UNP. What more proof of his inability to lead? If it was in another country, when it became clear that he was ultimately responsible for the\u00a0 unheard of daylight robbery\u201d at the Central Bank by his \u2018Golaya\u2019 whom he brought from Singapore, he should have resigned on his own in the true democratic tradition. But he was so thick skinned that he didn\u2019t. So why is the JO sweating to remove him when he is their sure winning factor? After all, we know that the track record of the JO is not squeaky clean either! They are only there for the lack of an alternative.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, if they succeed in ousting Ranil as PM at this juncture, the JO will find it that much more difficult to defeat the UNP at the hustings if they appoint a new leader. Whoever that person would be, he will offer some hope to the disgusted UNPers to return to their fold at least in temporary hope. So why do the JO want to queer the pitch?<\/p>\n

The only area of concern if Ranil is allowed to continue is, what further damage he could do to the country during the interim period? Besides the Central Bank Robbery he has sent this country to gallows with the co-sponsoring of the UNHRC Resolution in collaboration with his fellow traitor Mangala. He had sold the Hambantota Port to China, causing so much inconvenience to India and now bent on selling the Hambantota Air Port and Trincomalee harbor to India to compensate. He will push through the deadly ETCA agreement with India to ruin this country further. The biggest damage to this country will be his tireless effort to push the dangerous New Constitution proposal, converting this country into a federal state. It is the responsibility of the President assisted by the JO, to prevent these disasters from the brink working with dedication, if the President has any hope of asking the country for a second Term.<\/p>\n

I believe that we are a short sighted nation. I mean all Communities. We are not adept at seeing the bigger picture. I think the same problem afflicts the JO who are engaged in a short sighted self-defeating \u00a0exercise in vain<\/p>\n

In Management, \u2018do nothing\u2019 option too is a positive strategy in certain circumstances. This is such a situation for the JO. Do nothing, and let Ranil lead the UNP to its grave, the way that Pied Piper of Hamlin did.<\/p>\n

Sugath Samarasinghe<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sugath Samarasinghe I do not understand the strategy of the JO in moving this No Confidence Motion against Ranil Wickramasinghe. What is their ultimate goal, I wonder? Immediately after the victory of Israel after their famous Six Day War where they trounced the braggart UAR in 1967, a journalist asked Israeli General Moshe Dayan, What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sugath-samarasinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76093","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=76093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}