{"id":91196,"date":"2019-07-09T15:25:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T22:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91196"},"modified":"2019-07-09T15:27:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T22:27:23","slug":"mr-ruwan-wijewardane-is-the-best-leader-for-unp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/09\/mr-ruwan-wijewardane-is-the-best-leader-for-unp\/","title":{"rendered":"MR RUWAN WIJEWARDANE IS THE BEST LEADER FOR UNP"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Generally,\nall political parties in Sri Lanka have a common problem, which is they don’t\ntrain the next leader for the party to take responsibilities on account of the\ncountry.  Next leader of a political\nparty should be a dynamic characteristic, which has a good education, excellent\nattitudes, dynamic skills and broader experience as a person growing and\nintelligent person to deal with a dynamic world where emerges unexpected problems\nas a result of international or domestic reasons.  If we look back the selection of leaders to\npolitical parties it is observable that the election of leaders to political\nparties has been the genesis of the destruction of the political parties because\nelected new leaders failed to policy invention consistent to the dynamism of\nthe environment.  In this sense, a leader\nshould not be a marionette of advisors, but an intelligent person to understand\nthe intention of advisors and the impact of advice.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr.\nD.S Senanayake was the right leader for UNP at the beginning as his style of\nadministration and intelligentsia could address the issues faced by Sri Lanka\nat the international and domestic level. \nThere may have disagreements among people on how Mr. Senanayake\naddressed the problems.  The most\nsuperior aspect of his administration was he never betrayed the nation and the\nreligion, which highly recognized by any leader of the world.  The characteristics of Mr. Dudley Senanayake\nwas people oriented and a follower of his father\u2019s pathway but he was lack of\ninitiative in relation to changes in party policies adapting to\nmodernization.  Mr. John Kotelawala was\nan excellent determinant and good policy inventor in relation to economic\ndevelopment and foreign relation, but his temperament was not consistent to the\nculture of people and he was too aligned to the West. If the economic policies\nand plans of Mr. Kotelawala were successfully implemented in the country, Sri\nLanka would be better than South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan with a strong\nforeign asset base and domestic currency value. \nHowever, economic and social inequalities in the country would have dominated\nwith differences among people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr.\nS.W.R.D Bandaranaike was a leader of uniting ordinary people and giving justice\nto the rural community through education and cultural development.  His economic policies provoked the West and\ninvestors and promoted misguided attitudes among the working class, however,\nhis leadership promoted the transferring of power of the country from\nfeudalists to rural educated youths. \nMrs. Bandaranaike had excellent foreign advisors and attitudes to manage\ngood foreign policy.  She continued weak\nand inappropriate economic policies and failed to control the behavior of\nfamily members’ influence on government administration and she as a leader had\nnot understood of modernization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr.\nJ.R. Jayewardene did the best to UNP as a party leader who clearly understood\nmodernization and the way should the country go forward. He did many\ninternational tasks that lead Sri Lanka to an internationally recognized\ncountry with Mr. D.S Senanayake and Dudley Senanayake. At the funeral speech of\nMr. Dudley Senanayake before saying “Good Night Sweet Prince,\u201d he\nconvinced the country that Mr. Dudley Senanayake did everything with him and he\ncontinues Mr. Dudley\u2019s policy in the country.  Policymaking using capable leaders of the\nparty was his stewardship, but unable to successfully direct policies for\nethnic and religious issues.  Mr R.\nPremadasa had a serious weakness in uniting party heavyweights and according to\nhis experience with Mr. Gunassinghe, he committed to work for poor by offering\na carrot to them rather than developing strong policies for poor to emerge in\nthe economic and social field. Mr. Premadasa was a person easy to mislead by\nconsidering his personal interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs.\nChandrika Kumaratunga gained popularity, not because of the political dynasty\nbut the popularity of her actor husband and sympathy for him due to the\nassassination.  As a leader of the SLFP,\nshe could not show strong performance but she showed she was perusing for an\nunseen recognition or a utopian status than the reality of the country. These\nwere not important to people from a party leader.  Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa had to face a gigantic\nproblem as party leader as well as the leader of the country and he managed it\nwell with the strong support of his brothers. \nHe did two most vital tasks defeat of LTTE and attempting to reduce the\ninequalities of economic growth between urban and rural.  When the West refused to support his\ngovernment he successfully associated with China and obtained good economic\nsupports. Although he lost power in 2015, he was able to able secure the power\nas a member of the opposition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr.\nRanil Wickremasinghe had an excellent background to be the party as well as the\nleader of the country.  The first\nnegative point for him was the selection to the law faculty for studies because\nMr. Dudley Senanayake had to answer for questions at the upper house regarding\nhis selection and he became the prime minister when there were more popular and\neducated party leaders. There were many fabricated stories about his behaviour,\nbut they are not important to voters if he works for people.  The result of this situation was Mr.\nWickremasinghe did not get full support from the party heavyweight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now\nthe issue is who should be the next leader of UNP.  Many talks about Mr. Sajith Premadasa,\nhowever, he has fundamental weaknesses. What are his educational\nqualifications, he should openly express to the country?  He is too much taking or claiming his\nfather\u2019s work.  Can he produce a photo to\nthe country that shows he participated in his father’s funeral and produce the\nspeech given to people at the funeral? What is his policy opinion in relation\nto many areas such as foreign policy, economic development, and growth, a new\nconstitution for the country and many matters? \nAs a leader like J.R Jayewardene, he must be able to talk about many policies\nmatters rather than claiming his father’s work. The behaviour of his mother and\nhis sister was not popular in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr.\nRawan Wijewardena has excellent qualities to be the leader of UNP. He has an\nexcellent family background and relationship to the past leaders of UNP even to\nKings in the country.  He has an\nexcellent education, policy knowledge, and attitudes.  However, he cannot defeat Mr. Gotabaya\nRajapaksa as security, policy development, policy correction and a building a\ncultural design are the priority in the country. The best thing Mr. Wijewardena\nto do is support Mr. Gotabaya and then go to power as a different leader. The\nonly weakness of Mr. Wijewardena is media bias because his family members owned\nLake House, however, his background is strong, he can get the support of\nSinhala Buddhists and poor people if he convinces right policies to the\ncountry. He has no corrupt behaviour and he is a person with possibilities to\nget on with poor and have and share a lunch sitting on the floor. He is a\ncompletely different person from Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe.  He never makes hate speeches and very polite\nand pleasant characteristic.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Generally, all political parties in Sri Lanka have a common problem, which is they don’t train the next leader for the party to take responsibilities on account of the country.  Next leader of a political party should be a dynamic characteristic, which has a good education, excellent attitudes, dynamic skills and broader […]<\/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-91196","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\/91196","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=91196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}