{"id":90164,"date":"2019-06-10T16:38:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T23:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90164"},"modified":"2019-06-10T16:41:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T23:41:26","slug":"the-unification-of-major-political-parties-is-urgently-needed-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/10\/the-unification-of-major-political-parties-is-urgently-needed-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"THE UNIFICATION OF MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES IS URGENTLY NEEDED IN SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Edward Theophilus<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

At\nthe time of gaining independence many political parties, which are now\noperating in the country as separate parties were united except Marxist\nparties, which were persistent to achieve a just society considering the\nliberation for proletarians.  The\nattention of Marxist parties was limited to proletarians or working class\nexcept for farmers. However, the unity of political parties ended with the\nseparation of Mr. Bandaranaike, who had the interest to become a leader of the\ncountry uniting sanga, weda, guru, govi and camkaru. Some attitudes promoted by\nMr. Bandaranaike laid the foundation to disunite people and political parties\nof the country.  There is no argument\nthat the policies of Mr. Bandaranaike were vital to the country at that time as\nthe wind of freedom was blowing throughout the world against colonialism.\nPolicies of Mr. Bandaranaike were hugely beneficial to the country, especially\nthey opened the leadership and participation of rural people in administration\nand significant functional areas of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However,\nthe dynamism began in the early 1970s and created unexpected problems and\nnarrowed the policy differences among political parties.  All political parties had to accept realities\nand adapt to the new environment.  Now\nthe policies of political parties are similar, and especially, policies of\npolitical parties represented by Sinhala people, who are 75% of the total\npopulation of the country, are analogous and the disunity of Sinhala people\nbasis of political parties has created many problems to the country. Therefore,\nit is essential to initiate talks between parties to combine UNP, SLFP, and\nSLPP to a single party.  This does not\nmean that the unity of major political parties disregards the Tamil and Muslim\nParties. Like in India, Hindus networked to Janata Party, Sri Lanka needs creating\nUNPP (United National Podujana Peramuna) party to tackle all internal problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nEaster Sunday attacks to churches and tourist hotels did massive damage to\nIslam faith and Muslim community in Sri Lanka since the inception of Islam\nfaith in the country because Muslim people cannot say that the incident has not\nhappened and suicide bombers were not belonging to Islam faith. It was a true\nincident, that has been recorded in many documents and future generations could\nrefer to it and study it.  Now the\nincident has recorded in history and it cannot remove from history.  In addition, Muslim people have incurred\nmassive economic losses as many consumers in the country, Sinhala people\nreluctant to associate with the business of Muslim people.  In this background, Sinhala people force\nmajor political parties to unite and work together to remove the threat from\nSri Lanka\u2019s soil.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nbuilding of unity shouldn\u2019t be like 2015 Yahapalana unity, it should be broader\nagreement with policy and programs and leadership should be given to a combine\nleaders of three parties and it may be a new form of leadership that did not\nexist in the world but it will not be a utopian style and it will be a truth in\nthis planet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During\nthe period of the achievement of independence and after several decades\npolitical parties in Sri Lanka had been maintaining policy differences in\nrelation to the management of the economy, especially they were focused on the\npublic enterprises’ management and the ownership of investments.  Those ideas and policies were foregone years\nand the modern environment forces all political parties to be in uniform in\nrelation to economic policies.  In the\npolitical side, it appears that minor difference but they are easily removable.\nReligious and all other policies are similar and in such an environment why\npolitical parties opted to be separated than uniting to single party with a view\nto teaching a lesson to all citizens of the country that uniting political\nparties can produce an excellent model to the country and the world that a just\nsociety could be made of united political environment that isolates working of\ndivided political parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past\nleaders of political parties had family hegemony with a view to continuing it,\nhowever, the history of Sri Lanka clearly demonstrates that family hegemony was\na temporary concept and utopia of present leaders.  The Current parliamentary system seems to be\nexist some ruins of past ideology and burring past ruins is the responsibility\nof modern leaders and people.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Edward Theophilus At the time of gaining independence many political parties, which are now operating in the country as separate parties were united except Marxist parties, which were persistent to achieve a just society considering the liberation for proletarians.  The attention of Marxist parties was limited to proletarians or working class except for farmers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90164","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=90164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}