{"id":84874,"date":"2019-01-14T15:21:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T22:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=84874"},"modified":"2019-01-14T15:21:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T22:21:31","slug":"fighting-an-election-vs-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/01\/14\/fighting-an-election-vs-winning\/","title":{"rendered":"FIGHTING AN ELECTION Vs WINNING"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

In politics, when fighting an election, there are two plans, Plan A and Plan B.<\/p>\n

Plan A:\u00a0 Formulate a broad based plan to win the election.\u00a0 Primary purpose of Plan A, will be to WIN the election.\u00a0 Avoid isolating voters, bring them into your fold.\u00a0 Do not provide any weapons to opponents in Plan A implementation stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plan B: After winning the election, continue educating the masses the value of unity as against disintegration.<\/strong>\u00a0 Continue rapid industrial and agricultural development in all parts of the island, as previously done by Prez Mahinda\u00a0 Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

All voters are now in a position to make a comparison with Prez Mahinda Rajapakse Regime Vs Maithree\/Ranil\u00a0 Regime.<\/strong>\u00a0 They have identified the Leadership that is capable of tackling difficult issues, with a vision into the future.<\/p>\n

With so much of political misgivings taking place in Sri Lanka, the average voter is not at all distracted by these political games.<\/strong>\u00a0 They continue with their daily life, build their families.\u00a0 The voter is far more intelligent than what the political leaders think of them. The voter is not persuaded by sudden movements in the game of musical chairs,\u00a0 as they are aware that such actions by the so called Leaders are aimed at staying alive in their current political positions.<\/p>\n

As the votes have now garnered a clear cut picture by comparing Mahinda Vs Maithree\/Ranil Regime,\u00a0 they cannot be fooled.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Therefore, the political manifesto in Plan A, should be aimed at bringing everyone together.\u00a0 The voter will decide whom to believe.<\/p>\n

The voter will decide whether to believe the:<\/p>\n

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  1. Bunch of cocktail leaders who placed a spanner in the wheel of economic progress of Sri Lanka;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    or<\/p>\n

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    1. Bunch of astute leaders who delivered more than what they have promised<\/strong> and brought Sri Lanka to rapid economic, social and cultural development;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Those who are arguing about\u00a0 13 and 19 amendments are out of touch with the voters.\u00a0 They have nothing else to add.\u00a0 They will shout, parade or write articles\u00a0 demanding whether or not 13 and 19 will be scrapped.\u00a0\u00a0 These are traps<\/strong>. They are few isolated people pregnant with prejudice!\u00a0 No need to answer them,\u00a0 as we identify their motives.\u00a0 Stick to Plan A.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      By M D P DISSANAYAKE In politics, when fighting an election, there are two plans, Plan A and Plan B. Plan A:\u00a0 Formulate a broad based plan to win the election.\u00a0 Primary purpose of Plan A, will be to WIN the election.\u00a0 Avoid isolating voters, bring them into your fold.\u00a0 Do not provide any weapons […]<\/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-84874","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\/84874","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=84874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}