{"id":83787,"date":"2018-11-30T19:27:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T01:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=83787"},"modified":"2018-11-30T11:56:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T18:56:57","slug":"independent-judiciary-made-it-possible-to-make-parliament-a-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/11\/30\/independent-judiciary-made-it-possible-to-make-parliament-a-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Judiciary made it possible to make Parliament a Theatre."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charles S.Perera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The most ridiculous theatrical shows continue to be enacted within the once august \u00a0meeting place of the people\u2019s representatives the Parliament. Can one call a Parliament is in session when there is only the opposition seated in their seats\u00a0 with a theatrically attired speaker in Chair?<\/p>\n

The Comedy Francaise has a great\u00a0 classical, cultural value.<\/p>\n

But the theatrical sessions of the Parliament of Sri Lanka being enacted these days with Karunasena Jayasuriya in Chair in his British theatrical costume, are neither classical, nor cultural, \u00a0but a pure display of hatred , vengeance, with sometime even criminal undertones, \u00a0calling the people to surround the house of Ministers and rebel against the Constitutionally formed government, which they say is non existent.<\/p>\n

There is no functioning Parliament\u00a0 in Sri Lanka today.\u00a0 All those speeches\u00a0 being made on the opposition side and their passing of No Confidence Motions, and legislations\u00a0 in the absence of the Prime Minister and the Ministers and the representatives of the Government make the whole show a \u00a0mere mockery of \u00a0Parliamentary Sessions. Those speeches\u00a0 have no right to be printed in Parliamentary Hansards and the regislations have no legal value.<\/p>\n

It is the Judiciary that bungled in haste allowing the Parliament to continue its session until their verdict on the illegal opposition, as the Attorney General had informed the Judges,\u00a0 to the Presidential decision to appoint a new Prime Minister and a new Government, and issuing \u00a0a gazette notification to dissolve the parliament to hold general\u00a0 elections. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The law students are perhaps aware of mock trials in preparing them \u00a0for exams, where the students try to make the mock trials as real as far as possible. It is exactly that which is happening in the Sri Lanka Parliament now \u00a0which has been boycotted by the government as the opposition has made the Parliament \u00a0\u00a0a show place\u00a0 for rhetoric. They have all \u00a0become great politicians speaking lightly and without respect for persons and office.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the Government of Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse appointed by the President as the Prime Minister, \u00a0and his Cabinet of Ministers are working hard to re establish the disorder the country had been put into by three years of non-rule\u201d by the Yahapalanaya Government.\u00a0 But the mock Parliament in session in the mean time try to put barriers before Prime Minister \u00a0Mahinda Rajapakse and his Government doing \u00a0their \u00a0best to give what ever relief they can to the people who had been put into financial difficulties, and help them continue their work for their lively hood, while\u00a0 helping the farmers to plough their fields, despite the present difficulties being created by\u00a0 the UNP and its allied partners.<\/p>\n

The fear that both the UNP and its allied partners and the JVP dreaming to establish a\u00a0 Marxist Government have \u00a0is that, \u00a0within a short time\u00a0 the Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse and his Cabinet of Miniters may carry out an efficient refurbishment and bring back a little relief to the people which would put him in an advantageous position to face the coming General election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hence they are doing their damnedest possible against\u00a0 the Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse and his Cabinet of Ministers from carrying out their work to put to right what had been done wrong by the Yahapalanaya government. The only way they can disable the Mahinda Rajapakse Government from working for the welfare of the people is by passing various legislations accepted as passed by the \u00a0Speaker of the House who it seems to have \u00a0momentarily gone insane.<\/p>\n

Most hard hitting rhetoric comes from the Marxists of the JVP Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Bimal Ratnayake etc, \u00a0and\u00a0 from Champika Ranawake who is hoping that by some chance the\u00a0 post of the Opposition candidate for the next Presidential election may fall on his lap.<\/p>\n

The speeches of the Marxist JVP speakers\u00a0 which lack\u00a0 moral, religious or disciplined eloquence, may be a bad influence on the minds of the Sri Lanka youth who are already suffering from an unknown malaise which was highlighted recently from a group of youth videoing a young woman being strangled to death by\u00a0 another without coming to the help of the victim. <\/strong><\/p>\n

However, the most virulent un Buddhist speeches attacking Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse and his cabinet \u00a0by a man in yellow robes Dambara Amila have been exposed as being made for a fee of Rupees \u00a095000 per month paid by Littro gaz.<\/p>\n

There is also the danger of the mock parliamentary sessions open to the view of the public, may contribute to endanger the morality of the\u00a0 Sri Lankan Youth, as the speakers go unchallenged\u00a0 and uncorrected with their indiscipline immoral speeches of hatred and vengeance against\u00a0 their enemy\u201d\u00a0 the Prime Minister and his Cabinet who are carrying \u00a0out their duties legitimately entrusted to them for the welfare of the country and the people.<\/p>\n

People should take serious note of these self appointed saviours of democracy, and good governance from slowing down the Government of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse\u2019s process of bringing back to normal the three years of bad Yahapalanaya governance, which had denied to the people\u00a0 any relief from rampant cost of living through anti people taxes imposed by the Yahapalanaya Government.<\/p>\n

The Yahapalanaya Government \u00a0which was being directed by the West holding before it the GPS\u00a0 and other minor relief\u00a0 to make Sri Lanka dependent on the West and agree to pass a new Constitution with a federal twist to give an Eelam State to the Tamils and make Sri Lanka a non religious state by removing any special consideration\u00a0 for Buddhism as it had been done in previous Constitutions.<\/p>\n

JVP is already asking that they be given the right to rule the country and\u00a0 with that idea behind, it is carrying on a bitter campaign to make the Prime Minister \u00a0Mahinda Rajapakse and his Ministers unpopular amoung the people, and obstruct the work the Prime Minister and his Cabinet of Minister are doing to ameliorate the living conditions of the people. The mock sessions of the Parliament have stopped the Prime Minister and his Cabinet of Ministers have resort to funds for proceeding with their work, \u00a0by passing mock legislation.<\/p>\n

As the Parliament is\u00a0 presently\u00a0 not functioning in its legal form, there is a question whether the mock legislation passed at the mock sessions of the Parliament have any legal value.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

One does not know what could be expected from the independent judiciary in this regard.<\/p>\n

Would their \u00a0decisions make it still more difficult for the people to expect the Government led by the Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse carry on its work for the immediate betterment of the conditions of the people, or whether they would be again thrown back to the Yahapalanaya wolves now reduced to the UNP , TNA, and JVP ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charles S.Perera The most ridiculous theatrical shows continue to be enacted within the once august \u00a0meeting place of the people\u2019s representatives the Parliament. Can one call a Parliament is in session when there is only the opposition seated in their seats\u00a0 with a theatrically attired speaker in Chair? The Comedy Francaise has a great\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83787","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=83787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}