{"id":76095,"date":"2018-03-31T11:45:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T18:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=76095"},"modified":"2018-03-31T11:45:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T18:45:38","slug":"who-is-most-unpopular-in-sri-lanka-prime-minister-mr-ranil-wickremasinghe-or-president-mr-maithreepala-sirisena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/03\/31\/who-is-most-unpopular-in-sri-lanka-prime-minister-mr-ranil-wickremasinghe-or-president-mr-maithreepala-sirisena\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO IS MOST UNPOPULAR IN SRI LANKA – PRIME MINISTER MR RANIL WICKREMASINGHE OR PRESIDENT MR MAITHREEPALA SIRISENA"},"content":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Currently all guns are directed at the Hon Prime Minister Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0President Maithreepala Sirisena is occupying the highest office of the land at the behest of Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe.<\/p>\n

In the most recently held local government elections, Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe’s\u00a0\u00a0political wing was placed second, in spite of Bond Scam allegations and mis-management of the economy. Popularity of the UNP was not shattered at the election.\u00a0\u00a0Popularity of Mr Wickremasinghe was not shattered at the election.\u00a0\u00a0To his credit, during the election campaign he did not blame the President Sirisena, he was far more diplomatic.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He openly admitted that the economy was not progressing during past two and half years, but he strongly portrayed and promised the voters that the remaining period in office, a significant progress will be achieved.\u00a0\u00a0To that extent Mr Wickremasinghe displayed ‘last minute honesty’, for which he should be given full credit.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, how did Prez. Sirisena conduct himself at the election.\u00a0\u00a0With a view of preventing anti UNP votes flowing to the SLPP, the President suddenly portrayed himself as the strongest enemy of the UNP.\u00a0\u00a0He attacked his own PM on grounds of dishonesty.\u00a0\u00a0He attacked his own PM as unfit to manage the economy.\u00a0\u00a0He virtually played the role of\u00a0\u00a0Manuel of the Fawlty Towers, pretending ” I KNOW NOTHING”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to\u00a0\u00a0absolve\u00a0\u00a0himself\u00a0\u00a0from the cardinal sins committed by the Yahapalana Government.<\/p>\n

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  • The President presided at all Cabinet Meetings,<\/li>\n
  • the President allocated Ministerial portfolios to his Ministers, including allocation of the Central Bank to the PM,<\/li>\n
  • the President\u00a0\u00a0appointed RW\u00a0\u00a0as Prime Minister with only 46 seats in Parliament\u00a0\u00a0out of 225,<\/li>\n
  • the President appointed RW, without dismissing or seeking resignation of the then Prime Minister Mr D M Jayaratne,<\/li>\n
  • the President gave the nod for the formation of Hybrid Court,<\/li>\n
  • the President gave his blessings to arrest Ranaviruvo,<\/li>\n
  • the President approved the appointment of Arjun Mahendran as Governor of the Central Bank,<\/li>\n
  • the National Anthem was sung in Tamil in the presence of the President<\/li>\n
  • the President’s brother Dudley Sirisena now owns the largest number of Rice Mills in Sri Lanka,<\/li>\n
  • the President approved the appointment of Mr Sambandan as the Leader of the Opposition with only 16 seats in the Parliament,<\/li>\n
  • the President has provided STF security to Mano Ganeshan just before the recently held elections for Colombo Municipal Council, in order to obtain favours from Mano for the SLFP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    If PM RW is accountable for ruining the country, its culture and economy, the President Sirisena is also equally accountable on grounds of Contributory Negligence.<\/p>\n

    The President Sirisena will never go against the PM RW.\u00a0\u00a0The developing latest political\u00a0\u00a0drama point to RW becoming the President as President Sirisena step down, allowing a SLFP MP to become the Prime Minister and continue Yahapalana Government.\u00a0\u00a0Needless to say, that this political development\u00a0\u00a0will be embraced by the Westerners, Tamils etc.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    By M D P DISSANAYAKE Currently all guns are directed at the Hon Prime Minister Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0President Maithreepala Sirisena is occupying the highest office of the land at the behest of Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe. In the most recently held local government elections, Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe’s\u00a0\u00a0political wing was placed second, in spite of Bond Scam […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76095","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=76095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}