{"id":76237,"date":"2018-04-05T22:38:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T04:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=76237"},"modified":"2018-04-05T14:06:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:06:49","slug":"ltte-treaty-allies-saved-ranil-unps-last-hurrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/04\/05\/ltte-treaty-allies-saved-ranil-unps-last-hurrah\/","title":{"rendered":"LTTE Treaty Allies Saved Ranil: UNP\u2019s Last Hurrah"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Out of 224 MPs eligible to vote, only 76 have any concern for the nation, its finances, good governance and people\u2019s mandate. 148 of them have no regard for the nation. Interestingly, Ranil was saved by LTTE Treaty allies!<\/p>\n

In February 2002 various political parties signed Memorandum of Understanding each with the LTTE. First to sign a MOU with the LTTE was the UNP led by Ranil on February 22, 2002 just before signing the infamous and illegal CFA on the same day. The MOU recognized LTTE as the sole representative of Tamil people. SLMC led by Rauf Hakeem also signed a MOU with the LTTE accepting that LTTE is the sole representative of Tamil-speaking Muslims. TNA signed another MOU with the LTTE accepting that LTTE is the sole representative of Tamils. This trio saved Ranil at the no confidence motion.<\/p>\n

The intense debate and voting also exposed sham patriots. These election-day patriots have nowhere to hide now as some of them voted with the TNA to save Ranil while others abstained from voting. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, Patali Ranawaka, Wasantha Senanayake, Athuraliye Rathana Thero and Arjuna Ranatunga just blew their patriotic cover to pieces.<\/p>\n

The present regime survives on borrowed time, borrowed from LTTE proxies and treaty allies. How long can it go and how much damage it will cause to itself by clinging on to power beyond use by date? UNP was decimated in 1970 election after it entered into a similar pact with Tamil parties in 1965 and UNP was also destroyed electorally in 2004 for the same crime. There is no escaping the same fate in 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n

TNA put forward a 10-point demand list and UNP agreed to them all which won TNA support. Most of these demands violate the Constitution and highly racist. Some of them need two thirds of parliament. But the government found out the hard way it lacks two thirds support. At most it has only 122 votes, 28 votes shy of two thirds majority. Therefore constitutional changes are not forthcoming. Shamelessly, TNA will still keep supporting the UNP candidate at the 2019 presidential election. The word shame must be redefined to describe shameless SLMC and ACMC. They even lack human dignity in their shameless conduct.<\/p>\n

JVP and SLPP\/JO supported the no confidence motion. They together voted 52% along with their independent groups at the February 10 LG election. The rest voted 48%. This would have given the governing party only 107 votes but they got 122. These additional 15 MPs are rootless politicians detracted from reality. 52% should have given 117 votes for the no confidence motion. But they got only 76. The deficit of 41 is made up of the 26 SLFP MPs who abstained and the 15 MPs identified above.<\/p>\n

As a parliamentarian correctly pointed out, people are only happy seeing Ranil pull the UNP cart to the political cemetery of the UNP. Why disrupt them! The only danger of dragging the nation with them has been foiled by denying them the two thirds of parliament. UNP goes the final journey alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Dilrook Kannangara Out of 224 MPs eligible to vote, only 76 have any concern for the nation, its finances, good governance and people\u2019s mandate. 148 of them have no regard for the nation. Interestingly, Ranil was saved by LTTE Treaty allies! In February 2002 various political parties signed Memorandum of Understanding each with the LTTE. […]<\/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-76237","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\/76237","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=76237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}