{"id":91980,"date":"2019-08-05T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T22:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91980"},"modified":"2019-08-05T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T22:08:10","slug":"an-open-letter-to-all-political-parties-and-politicians-who-seek-a-mandate-to-rule-this-country-at-the-forthcoming-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/05\/an-open-letter-to-all-political-parties-and-politicians-who-seek-a-mandate-to-rule-this-country-at-the-forthcoming-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"An open letter to all political parties and politicians who seek a mandate to rule this country at the forthcoming elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

A people\u2019s Manifesto for the next Presidential\/General\nElection. ?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fifty Demands for all political Parties and aspirant\nleaders who intend contesting next Presidential\/General Election <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a foregone\nconclusion that there is no Government in this country today, in spite of the\nfact that there is a President, a Prime Minister,  9 Governors in the nine Provinces, nearly 157\nMinisters (112 Central Government (until recently), and 45 Ministers with 5\nChief Ministers in the Provincial Councils, nearly 700 PC Members, and 336\nPradesiya Sabhas with 8825 Members, \nmaintained at enormous cost, bleeding the nation, with facilities and\nprivileges not heard or given to politicians anywhere in the world. Moreover it\nis said that for every 16 people in this country we have 1 public servant\n(1\/16) and for every 2235 people we have 1 politician (1\/2235) all serving\nthemselves and not the people who maintain them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus we have the\ntop heaviest and most corrupt political machinery and an inefficient, lethargic\nand servile public service for any country in the world, that has no concern\nfor the country or the people who maintain all these wasteful institutions and\nparasites, plagued with thousands of liars and thieves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isn’t this total\nanarchy and naked day light gang robbery of a nation by corrupt politicians and\ntheir supporters, with impunity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore even\nthe Judiciary, the machinery of Public Service (except the Armed forces)   too has failed to win the confidence of the\ngeneral public due to serious politicization. So much so today this country has\nalmost become a failed State where top anarchy reigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact this had\nbeen the state of governance ever since this Government was installed in power\nin January 2015. The so-called Public Service today also has got reduced to the\nlevel of a domestic service of the political party in power, with very few\nexceptions found once in a blue moon. The situation is getting aggravated every\nday as all political parties are concerned only in vote hunting to remain in\npower. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore the\ncrying need to seriously address and arrest this grievous national problem\nimmediately and find a lasting solution before the country collapses completely\nbeyond redemption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to\nachieve this noble objective, which, I consider will be a historic land mark in\nthe political history of this country, I propose below a comprehensive list of\n50 steps needed to be taken immediately to arrest this appalling situation and\nmake this country once again the Pearl of the Indian Ocean, as it had been in\nthe past, by converting it to a dynamic, vibrant and prosperous status. For\nthis we need a strong and patriotic government that can fulfill the native\npeople\u2019s aspirations. With this objective in view, using the 1956 experience, I\npresent the following proposal for all patriotic people to think seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following\nrecipe is based on burning aspirations of the native Sinhala majority who has\nbeen discriminated and sidelined by all political parties for 70 years since\nthe dawn of so-called Independence in 1948. It is a complete departure from the\nconventional manifestoes of political parties presented by them to grab\npeople\u2019s votes only to fulfill their own vicious and selfish ends. It is a\npeople\u2019s manifesto, prepared after consultation with a wide cross section of\npeople. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this proposal the people demand and command the\npolitician and political parties for the first time in the history of elections,\nin this country since 1956, to accept and publicly agree to fulfill the\npeople\u2019s demands, if they want their votes. That is the fundamental difference\nbetween all previous election manifestoes and this. I hope this will also\nprovide a precedent for all future elections in this country to lay a firm and\nsolid foundation for democracy in this country. No political party or\nindividual that cannot comply with this National agenda is qualified to aspire\nto govern this country in future or ask for a mandate from the people to do so.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Blue Print of a People\u2019s Election Manifesto for\nthe next Presidential\/General election<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objective<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(These objectives are tailored to cover all fields\nlike political, economic. social and cultural in nation building)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 To replace an\nutterly corrupt, disastrous, treacherous and non-functioning government, by the\npoliticians, for the politicians and of the politicians and their families,\ncronies and their government servants, with a “True Yahapaalanaya” by\nthe people, of the people and for the good of the people and to set up a\nCivilization State\u201d as Martin Jacques \nproposed in his When China Rules the World\u201d (2009), based on our own\nindigenous systems of governance headed by an honourable set of Statesmen headed\nby a strong patriotic Sinhala Buddhist leader and a set of True Public\nServants\u201d, who love the country, its people and their culture than their own\nself interst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 To take the\nreins of power of Governance in to the hands of 75% Sinhala majority, consolidate\ntheir rights as the Bhumiputras of the land and end the tyranny of minority\npolitics in this country, which has ruined this country since 1948 while\nensuring the reasonable rights of minority communities and their due place in\nthis country within the framework of a\nSinhala Buddhist State.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3To restore the\nname of the country as Sinhale, Sinhala Language as the State Language,\nBuddhism as the State religion, the national flag that was there in 1815 and\nthe status of the total land of the motherland free from all encumbrances to\nrestore the sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence, freedom and the\ncultural heritage of this great Sinhala Buddhist country and the nation as it\nexisted for 2500 years at the time of ceding to British I n 1815. (In fact these\nare things that should have been done in 1948 but never done by any Government for\n71 years up to date) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 To enact a new\nConstitution based on the roots of the nation as embedded in its history, traditions\nof state craft, legal systems, the cultural heritage and the 2500 year old\ncivilization, to lay a solid and firm foundation for nation building to make\nthis country a vibrant, dynamic and prosperous nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 To ban all\nPolitical Parties named after ethnic, religious, regional or divisive basis\nlike Federal, TNA, TELO, SLMS, TC and EPRLF or any other like who go against\nthe Non-negotiable conditions of the Sri\nLankan State.<\/strong> (See Annex 1) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 To end the\nconventional practice of keeping everything in the hands of corrupt politicians\nby getting them to implement an election manifesto prepared by the people like\nin 1956, instead of hitherto prevailed practice of politicians imposing their\nelection manifestos to get the votes and get their things done, while ruining\nthe country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 To get all\npeople to give up their kepuwath, meruwath UNP\/ SLFP\/ JVP type of blind party\npolitical affiliations, which has divided the Sinhala people and made the\nminorities the King makers, and to organize the Nation as a ‘We Sinhala\nMovement’ as one mighty patriotic force that will put the country before the\nparty and all other petty considerations like religion and caste to unite the\nnation as one formidable and undefeatable \u2018Force\u2019 and to end the minority power\nof hijacking the  Sinhala Buddhist nation\nin to political wilderness. United we stand and divided we fall. Our failure to\nunderstand this simple gospel truth and getting blindly trapped in the divisive\nnoose of party politics set by the colonial British to ruin this country.                     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 To restore the\nlost heritage of the Sinhala nation and the main aspects of their Independence\nand identity, starting from 1505 to date, which the politicians of this country\nhave miserably failed to do during 71 years of so-called Independence (See Mahanuwara\nCharter 2019 for details).Re-starting teaching of true history of this country  should commence immediately in all schools as\na compulsory subject for all citizens to differentiate between fact and\nfiction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 To scrap the\nIndian imposed 13th Amendment and Provincial Councils, a white elephant and a\ncurse imposed upon us by force by India, that has completely destabilized the\nonce effective and less costly District Administration and Governance in this\ncountry, by multiplying and duplicating public institutions, number of\nparasitic politicians and public servants, dividing the country in to 9\nsemi-federal units paving the way for permanent division of the country in to a\nno return situation, wasting billions of public funds with zero benefit to the\ncountry, that could otherwise have been gainfully spent on the development of\nthe country. Concurrently the abolition of Rajiv\/JR Accord of July 29th 1987\nthat gave birth to PCC and many other serious political disasters, like 1) the acceptance\nof  a Traditional Tamil Homeland in the\nNorth and East, 2) granting Official status to Tamil Language in this country\n(when it is not given even in India where over 70 million Tamils live) and 3)\ngranting Citizenship to all Indian Estate labour on the plantations on an\naffidavit from a JP, also has to be removed forthwith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 To punish all\ninvolved in the CB mega Robbery starting from Ranil Wickramasinha, the chief\nconspirator-cum schemer and the first accused ending in recovering the total\nloss to the country, life imprisonment, confiscation of property and ending in\ndeath penalty for those found guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 To cancel all\ndisastrous agreements entered in to by this Government with Foreign countries\nto sell or lease out the nation’s assets and making prior Parliamentary approval\nmandatory before signing any international agreement in future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 To declare\nall land 5000 feet above sea level as strictly reserved forests as in the days\nof the Sinhala Kings to protect the country’s geographical Heartland that\nprovides the source for all rivers in this country which in turn determines and\ndictate the entire life system and the civilization in this Island nation:\nlimit all human settlements to areas below 3500 feet, to protect the physical\nstability of the central hill country” of the country, thereby increasing\nthe water resources for agriculture, hydro- electricity, industries and\ndomestic use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11 To restore\nall lost rights of native Kandyan Sinhalese who fought for 443 years against\nthree enemy invaders Portuguese, Dutch and British to protect this nation for\nus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 To set up a\nseparate Ministry for Kandyan Peasantry rehabilitation, the Authority and the\nInstitutions recommended by the Kandyan Peasantry Commission of 1951, to\nrehabilitate them immediately to rectify the historical injustices done to them\nand to abolish the newly formed Hill country Tamil (mono) Village and Infrastructure\nDevelopment Ministry and all so-called development programmes started under it\nwith ADB assistance by this Government that will ultimately lead to the\nformation of a permanent Indian enclave right at the centre of this country.\n(These people were brought by the British after 1840, as slaves who worked for\nthe British to enrich the British Treasury. While toiling for their British\nmasters they earned their living and transferred all their savings to India\nannually up to 1948). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

13 To restore\nall lost rights of native Kandyan Sinhalese who fought for 443 years, from 1505-1815,\nagainst three colonial enemy invaders Portuguese, Dutch and British to protect the\nmotherland and this nation for us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a)To abolish the\nnewly formed Hill country Tamil (mono) Village and Infrastructure Development\nMinistry and stop all the institutions and International  assistance that will ultimately lead to the\nformation of a permanent Indian enclave right at the centre of this country.\n(These people were brought by the British after 1840, as slaves who worked for\nthe British to enrich the British Treasury. While toiling for their British\nmasters they earned their living and transferred all their savings to India\nannually up to 1948). My question to Ranil and his government and all\npoliticians who pamper these alien people is, as to why they are giving these\nlands outright and privileges to decedents of an alien slave force, while the\nKandyan Peasants, the real owners of these lands are being blatantly\ndiscriminated and not restored with an inch of their ancestral land. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

15 To\ndrastically reduce the number of politicians and institutions at all levels\nstarting from Parliament and Ministries to the village level to an economically\nviable level the country could afford. (155 Members of Parliament, 15\nMinistries)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a)To limit\ngranting Citizenship to Plantation sector Indian Tamils only according to\nNehru-Kotalawala Agreement of 1954 and annul all Citizenships given under any\nother politically motivated treacherous agendas since 1954; even among them only\nthose who renounce all their connections both physically and mentally with\nIndia for good and accept this country as the land of the Sinhala nation and\nagree to integrate with the native Sinhala people as it has always happened in\nhistory shall be qualified to get citizenship under this. Others have to leave\neither to India or Britain as they were British citizens on Feb 4th 1948. They\nalso should agree to abide by the 15 non-negotiable conditions given in Annex\n1. In addition to fulfilling the conditions\nlaid down in the N\/K Agreement it should also be made compulsory for them to\npass an examination in Sinhala and Sri Lankan history before they are qualified\nto receive citizenship. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

b) To limit granting\ncitizenship to all other categories and to enact strict laws on giving\ncitizenship to foreigners; only to persons who accept the 15 non-negotiable\nconditions listed in the Mahanuwara Charter 2019 and who accept and respect\nthis country as the land of the Sinhala nation and agree not to challenge this\ninalienable status at any date even in future. (Please see Annex1).  They also have to pass an examination in\nSinhala language and history of this land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17 To take\nimmediate steps to restore and protect the ancient archaeological and\nhistorical monuments destroyed by Tamils and Muslims to protect the Sinhala\nBuddhist Civilization and culture all over this country together with the total\nland extend donated these institutions by the ancient Kings and pay special\nattention to restore all place names and names of rivers, given during the\nPortuguese, Dutch, British rule to their pre 1505 original status. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

18 To allocate\nall employments under Government strictly according to ethnic ratios and have\nstrict rules even in the private sector, to protect rights of Sinhalese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

19 To follow a\nNon-align Foreign policy protecting the Sovereignty, freedom and Independence\nof the country and to assert as an Independent nation without cowing and bowing\ndown to anybody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20 To make Sri\nLanka  once again the Pearl of the Indian\nOcean and the Miracle of  Asia by giving\npride of place in the national economy to Agriculture, Livestock, Fishing,\nExport promotion, Shipping and Aviation as key sectors in the economy and\nthereby converting the nation\u2019s economy to a dynamic, vibrant and strong\nstatus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

21 to stop all\nwasteful public functions such as foundation laying and opening petty projects\nat state expense and talking shops (meetings) organized by and for politicians\nwith expensive flower decorations and also expensive pavilions etc. to exhibit\ntheir vanity, spending millions of public funds and wasting millions of\nvaluable man hours and to compel the politicians to go for actions at least now\nand stop talking which they have done for the past 71 years and also stop\nforthwith all meetings organized to hand over appointments  etc and post all such letters by post to\nrecipients as it was done in the past. \nDisplay of politicians on Sign boards all over the country costing\nbillions should also be banned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

22 To revise the\npension scheme for all retired public servants so that every pensioner will be\nplaced on the same pension salary point entitled to a person retiring from the\ncorresponding post at present irrespective of the date on which the former has\nretired, in terms of the historic 1985 Indian Supreme court decision, in order\nto do justice to nearly 600,000 pensioners, who are struggling to keep their\nheads above water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

23 To Ban\nsending slave labour (especially women) to other countries including domestic\nservants to Middle East and to provide employment avenues for them locally to\nstop our cultural erosion, and to start a program of sending skilled\nprofessionals only, like Doctors, Engineers, Technicians and Managers etc\nenabling creation of jobs for those who pass out from our Universities and\ntechnical colleges as a major source of foreign exchange<\/p>\n\n\n\n

24 To ban all\nSchools under the \u2018International\u2019 labels and extremist ideologies like Madrasa\nso that we will have only National Schools that will implement the national\nEducation policy of Sri Lanka in this country in future, as only a broad based\nNational Educational policy that suits the country in the context of the new\nworld, could lay the sound foundation that could meet the challenges of this\nemerging world, for proper nation building. Make studying Sinhala compulsory for\nall Sri Lankan citizens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

25 To Reduce\nannual Public holidays (currently in the range of 125 -135) to a number not to\nexceed 12 as it is accepted in most countries<\/p>\n\n\n\n

26 To stop\npoaching and robbing all our marine resources in our territorial waters by any\nforeign country, including India that leads the game depleting our marine\nresources<\/p>\n\n\n\n

27 To impose\ndeath penalty for all found guilty on all serious and anti-social crimes\nstarting with narcotics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

28 To lay down\nspecial qualifications for politicians. Things like impeachable character, a Clean\nrecord, minimum educational qualifications, reasonable assets, unassailable\npatriotism and character, etc + five years compulsory permanent residence in\nthe electorate, unless he or she has birth right to that electorate for which\nhe\/she seeks nomination and an upper age limit of 75 years with recall\nprovisions and finally to make the JRS once again the most august assembly in\nthe country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

29 To have a strict\ncode of ethics and conduct for politicians and public servants with clear and\nstrict performance targets, including a ban on all politicians and public\nservants other than Cabinet Ministers and National level officers attending\nstate functions outside their areas of authority unless the chief guest invites\nhim\/her for some special duty, as the present practices involves a wanton\nwastage of enormous amounts of public funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

30 To demand\nthat all politicians have to agree to work free for one year under the new\nsystem <\/p>\n\n\n\n

31 To appoint a\npermanent commission to inquire in to malpractices of all politicians and high\nofficials from 1987 and punish those found guilty with confiscation of property\nillegally acquired, removal of civil rights and any other punishment courts\ndeem fit for the offences committed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

32 To\nrestructure the present system of Government Machinery with lesser number of 15   Ministries. Departments and Statutory Boards\nand institutions will continue as implementing agencies of policies and\nprogrammes of the Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

33 To set up an\nindependent professional Judiciary and a Public Service where all recruitments,\nplacements and promotions will be purely made on merits based on competitive\nexaminations. Meritocracy should be the hall mark in the seats of public\nservice in all these fields including politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

34Main features of the new Government under the new\nConstitution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Central Government<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1An Uttareetara Purohita Saba\/ Advisory Council<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Uttareetara\nPurohita Saba of 17 members (see Sec.  05\nof Mahanuwara Charter 2019 for details (Instead of one Purohita in the past) as\nstated in the Siya Panatha <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Uttareetara Jatika Selasum Mandalaya<\/strong>\/Permanent\nSupreme National Planning Council \nconsisting of 10 or 15 eminent persons in fields like Economics,  Law, Finance, Agriculture, Environment,\nIndustry, Education, Trade and Commerce, History and Culture of this country\netc, to prepare the overall National Plan so that politicians will have only to\nimplement national policies after they get elected. This will also has to be\nregularly evaluated, monitored and corrective measures taken to get this\nprogramme and the broad work plan given in the Mahanuwara Charter 2019 to be\nimplemented by the new Government to the end without flaws. This Council should\nbe chaired by the Prime Minister.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 President<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 An Executive President elected by all the\npeople in the country who shall be the Head of the State, Head of the\ngovernment and the Chief Commander of the Three Forces and restore his powers\nremoved by the 19th Amendment.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 Prime Minister<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime Minister;\nThe Chairman of the 15 Executive Committee as stated in 6 below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 Jatika Rajya Sabhava<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jatika Rajya\nSabhava JRS\/ (Parliamentto be named as JRS) of Elected Members representing 198\nelectorates (Abolish National list MP, District MP, Proportional and Preference\nsystem) Five years permanent residence within the respective electorate for all\ncandidates should be made compulsory to get nomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6)  Cabinet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

JRS to have 15\nExecutive Committees whose Chairmen will form the Cabinet of 15 assisted by 15\nDeputy Ministers, representing the 15 Districts that have not got a Minister.\nOf the 15 Chairmen one will get elected as the Chairman of the Committees\n(Cabinet) who will be appointed as the Prime Minister by the President. (For\ndetails see<\/strong> Towards a Government\nwithout Political Parties\u201d mentioned in Mahanuwara Charter 2019) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

7) State machinery <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The present\nsystem of State machinery of Ministries and Departments with semi-government\ninstitutions will continue, of cause reduced in number. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 New Constitution \n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To enact a new\nConstitution base on our own civilization as more fully described in Mahanuwara\nCharter 2019.  The Constitution for any\ngiven country has to be formulated by the Bhoomiputras who have founded the\nland, made the civilization and lived there from inception of history of that\nland and who treat it as their only motherland unless it had been overrun and\nconquered by an alien power like in the case of   N&S Americas, Canada, Australia and New\nZealand. No other outside party such as a foreign country or institution or an\ninvader or labourers brought by them for their work and left behind when they\nleft or left outs of invaders or itinerant seasonal traders and illicit\nimmigrants who have their own true motherlands elsewhere, like Tamils and\nMuslims in this country has absolutely no right to take part in constitution\nmaking for this country. As such constitution making for this country is the\nnon-negotiable prerogative and the birth right of Sinhalese Buddhists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(No man or woman\nwho is not prepared to agree to the conditions given in Annexes 1 &11 and\nCharter2019, even if he\/she is a Sinhala Buddhist should be appointed as a\nMinister or a Deputy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local Government<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 To form <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) Grama Sabha<\/strong>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Village Councils <\/strong>at Korale level for\nvillages and, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 Urban Councils\nand Municipal Councils for Urban centers. (Pradesiya Sabhas will be abolished\nunder this system).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

35 <\/strong>To restore former\nDistrict and Divisional Agricultural and Coordinating Committees <\/p>\n\n\n\n

to be presided\nover by District and Divisional Secretaries (Disapathi and Upadisapathi)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

36 <\/strong>To completely\nreorganize and upgrade the present Grama Seva System with resident village\nlevel officers to be named Gampathi in place of present itinerant Grama Seva\nNiladhary system, transferable only within the respective divisions,\ntransferable once in 5 years, as both the Village officer Gampathi and the\nVillage formed the rock foundation of the effective administration in this\ncountry from the inception of history, at least from 307 BC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

37<\/strong> To divide the Island\nagain in to Tun Rata with 10 districts for each totaling 30 for the whole\ncountry. Five new districts, Mahiyanganaya, Wellavaya and Seruwavila for Ruhunu\nRata; Yapahuwa (kurunegala   for Maya\nRata and Willpattuwa for Pihitirata)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

38<\/strong> To ban clergy of all\nreligions from contesting elections to Jatika Rajya Sabhava or any other\npolitical body<\/p>\n\n\n\n

39<\/strong>To ban appointing\ndefeated politicians and members of politicians families to any post under\ngovernment violating all recruitment procedures to government and\nsemi-government institutions or local and foreign services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

40<\/strong> To stop all special\nprivileges to all politicians and public servants like Duty free and official\nvehicles and punish all those who have misused this facility by violating the\nPA circulars from 1987 as given in Siyapanatha item 88. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

41<\/strong> To abolish the of\nPension rights politicians and convert it once again to an Honourable public\nservice as it had been in the past and to end politics being pursued as a fraud\nand a big business <\/p>\n\n\n\n

42 <\/strong>To disqualify\npoliticians and all other persons including those found guilty of any\ntreacherous action against the State or the country to hold any post in\npolitics or public service.. Even those who are holding any public positions at\nthe moment, that fall in to this category should also be removed\nimmediately.  This should be followed by\nremoving civil rights, life imprisonment and confiscating illegally acquired\nproperty in addition to any other punishment the authorities deem fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

43<\/strong> To stop all\ninterference by foreign countries or any foreign organization in the internal\naffairs of this country and to govern only according to the wishes and\naspirations of the Bhoomiputras of this country.  The age of Navi Pillay, Samantha Power, the British\nPrime Minister, Geneva and all other similar organizations like Amnesty\nInternational and UNCHR, ordering us what to do should be put to an end\nimmediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

44<\/strong> To Terminate diplomatic\nrelations with all countries that do not conform to these  Sri Lankan national policies and who\nconsistently act against  the interests\nof the Sri Lanka Government and support the LTTE remnants  both at Home and abroad  and the so-called Tamil Diaspora  operating from New York and London  and many other countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

45 <\/strong>To make the Secretary\nto the Treasury and the Ministry of Finance once again the Head of the Public\nservice and the Secretaries to Ministries to be appointed only from the\nSecretaries Service (see Siya Panatha Sec.3 for details). This will insulate\nPublic Service from political messing and restore independence, discipline and\nquality of public service and all recruitments to State jobs to be done through\nopen competitive examinations and viva voce with no political interference. All\nGovernment institutions to have a fixed cadre<\/p>\n\n\n\n

46<\/strong> To resettle all\ndisplaced people due to LTTE atrocities or during the war in their original\nplaces within six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

47<\/strong> To ban all types of\nCommunal segregations and make the whole Island open to people of all\ncommunities without any discrimination and to punish persons like Vignesvaran Sivajilingam,\nwho openly preach and act against this principle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

48<\/strong> All Universities to be\nmade independent seats of higher learning catering to Economic. Social and\nCultural development needs of the country, subject to the implementation of the\nGovernment’s National education policy. Ban all politically designed Student\nunions in Universities and also ban raging in all universities and Schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

49 <\/strong>To Minimize foreign\ntravel both for politicians and State Officials. Both politicians and State\nofficials going on foreign study tours or training should submit their reports\nwithin one month after they return, as to what lessons they have learnt, that\ncould be made useful to the country, to the JRS by politicians and by officials\nto the Secretary\/Head of Department to the relevant Ministry\/ Department. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

50<\/strong> Stop the present\npractice of allocation of public funds to politicians either by seats or\nthrough Decentralized budget invented for political bribing and to channel disbursement of all public funds\nthrough State Official as it was done in the past and to minimize financial\nmismanagement <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(For details on\neach item please see relevant sections in the Mahanuwara Charter 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(As no man or\nwoman who is not prepared to agree to these conditions is fit to be a citizen\nof this country or to take to national politics or get appointed to public\nservice in Sinhale, no such person should be elected or appointed to any public\nposition).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, let\nthere shall be no Ambalamas (stoppages) in this “Great National Leap\nForward” until the final destination is reached!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annex 1 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 20 non -negotiable conditions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Name of the country shall be Sinhale<\/strong> as\nit had been known at least from 543 BC up to 1972 (for 2515 years). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(All historical\nand literary sources have referred to it as Sinhale, Sinhala Dveepa or Seehala\nDeepa, Lakdiva or Lanka, but never as EELAM. Only ancient Malayalam people of\nSouth India had referred to this country as EELAM by which they simply meant\nthe land of the Sinhala people. The country that was ceded to Britain in 1815\nby the Kandyan Convention of 2nd March 1815 was Sinhale, translated to English\nas Ceylon, meaning the land of the land of the Sinhala people. All the 20 odd\nnames used for this country except two means the land of the Sinhala people\nexcept two that is Taprobane (derived from Tambapanni) and Serendib (from\nserendipity). Therefore that original name of the country has to be restored.\nNote both Sinhale (Puraana literature) and Lanka (Ramayanaya) had been used\nsynonymously from very ancient times to this country. The prefix Sri was added\nin 1972 Constitution when they named the country as The Republic of Sri Lanka\nand today it is known internationally as Sri Lanka and it has got permanently\nestablished by now. As such it could be called either Sinhale (lcally) or Sri\nLanka (internationally) like Bhratdesh and India, if necessary after public\nconsensus. Thereafter this country shall be known in all languages either as\nSinhale or Sri Lanka. To call it by any other name like EELAM, Ilankai or\nKalisthan thereafter will have to be declared as treason). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 2 Name\nof the Nation of this country shall be Sinhala<\/strong> as it had been in vogue at\nleast from 543 BC up to 1948. But again the nation could be called either\nSinhala or Sri Lankan for reasons given in item 1 above. Tamils or Muslims\nthereafter shall not be referred to or called as nations in this country any more.\nThey shall be called minor communities only (Sulujana kotas not minorities\nwhich is erroneously translated as Sulu Jati). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 Its Ratavesiyo (citizens) shall be known as Sinhala\nmeaning the people of the Sinhale<\/strong>). Those who wish\nto be citizens of Sinhale should learn the Sinhala language, Take Sinhala\nnames, renounce all allegiance to their country of origin and get fully\nintegrated with the native Sinhala society as they did in Burma in 1947. None,\nother than honorary citizens, who will not comply with these requirements,\nshall be given full citizenship of Sinhale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There shall be\ntwo category of Ratavesiyo under this scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a) Ratavesiyo by decent or Bhoomiputrayo:<\/strong>  All descendants of those who were  Ratavesiyo of Sinhale before 1815.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

b) Ratavesiyo by registration<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 This includes Ratavesiyo who are registered\nafter accepting the conditions laid down in Annex 1 and 11 included here in,\nsubject to the conditions prescribed in Mahanuwara Charter 2019 item 7\nregarding Rtavesibhavaya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 Buddhism shall be declared the State\nReligion<\/strong> while freedom of practicing other religions, will be guaranteed\nwith no right to manifest or propagate as it had been done from the beginning\nof history of this country up to 1815. Buddhism has to be accepted by people of\nall other religions asthe State religion of this country as it had been\naccepted by Kings and subjects alike in the past and even in contemporary times\n‘as the main tree where all other religions are only small branches’ as Rev\nMalcolm Ranjith Malcom Fernando has aptly said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 There shall be one Law for the whole\ncountry<\/strong> for all Citizens as it had been up to 1815. Details have to be\nworked out by the Bhoomiputras, based on the traditional native laws.\nSimultaneously ethnic laws such as Thesawalamei (Law for Malabar inhabitants)\nand (for Muslims) introduced to this country by the Dutch and British to divide\nthe Lankan nation shall be abolished and banned. Polygamy presently practiced\nby Muslims and Sharia marriage laws also should be scrapped along with this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 Sinhala should be made- The official language of the\nState<\/strong> as it had been from 543 BC. Both Tamils and\nMuslims can use their language. But all have to correspond in the official\nlanguage with the Government as it was done before 1815.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one who does not\nknow the language of the natives, that is Sinhala, shall be given full\nRatawesibhavaya of this country <\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 One country, One Nation, One National Flag\nand one National Anthem<\/strong> concept must be enshrined in the Constitution. It\nshould be sung only in Sinhala as given in the Constitution.(This will enhance and consolidate the unity and\npatriotism as one nation) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 This country shall be declared the Historical\nMaathrubhumi of the Sinhala race<\/strong> and all other\ncommunities have to accede to that non-debatable and non -negotiable fact of\nhistory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 Sinhala people also must have the right to\nlive in any part of the country of their choice and have the right to have\ntheir religious establishments like temples and shrines just as the Tamils and\nMuslims currently enjoy. If anyone objects or refuses this condition then they\nshould leave for their motherlands in India or Arabia<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 Sinhala Buddhist culture has to be legally\nrecognized as the national\/dominant culture of the Sri Lanka nation<\/strong>, while\nthe freedom of practicing their own cultures for all minor communities will be\nguaranteed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11 The\ninternational community has to honour this Sri Lankan identity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Discontinue diplomatic relations with all\ncountries that do not agree to these conditions and deport their Diplomatic\nrepresentatives immediately and terminate all relations with such countries\nuntil they agree to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 This country\nwill not get aligned with any World power. We will strictly adhere to the\nNon-aligned policy as a free, Independent and sovereign nation and will have\nfriendly relations with all countries. Any attempt by any country to interfere\nor intervene with the internal affairs of this country will be rejected and\ndefeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13 No national\nasset within the Island and its territorial waters shall be sold to or\notherwise divested in any foreign country or agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 (All these 13\nconditions are nothing but the restoration of the legitimate rights of the\nBhoomiputras of this Island as they were there at the time of ceding this\ncountry by the Kandyan Convention in 1815<\/strong> and some\nof them like the place of Buddhism, machinery of administration and customs and\nJudicial practices were included even in the Kandyan Convention, although most\nof them were outlawed by the Royal Proclamation of Nov 21 1818 unilaterally and\ntherefore illegally by the British. These conditions should have been restored\nin 1948 to make independence meaningful, but it was not done. Therefore none of\nthem are new. Furthermore no Tamil or Muslim can challenge the imposition of\nthese conditions as they themselves had been living within that very system\nprior to 1815 and all rights they enjoy today were given to them under suppression\nby the colonial powers against the will of the Bhoomiputras)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional Conditions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14 Under this proposal all Political Parties named\nafter ethnicity, religion, region or divisive basis like Federal, TNA, TELO,\nSLMS, TC and EPRLF or any other etc, will have to be banned by law as they run\ncounter to this principle.  Even the\nMarxist parties like LSSP, CP and JVP should be banned as their political\nideologies do not suit this country. There is no need to talk about the UNP or\nSLFP as they are also now defunct and will die a natural death at the next\nelection.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15 The President, Prime Minister, Chief Justice,\nSpeaker of the Jatika Rajya Sabhava, IGP, and the Heads of the three Armed\nforces shall be always be Sinhalese and Buddhists both by convention and Law.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16 All recruitments to public service should be done\nstrictly according to ethnic ratios (Please refer to Mahanuwara Charter 2019\nand Siyapanatha for details)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17 Strict Programme of family planning to maintain\ndemographic balance and  stop multiplying\nparticularly by Muslims like rabbits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

18 Ban ethnic and communal segregation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

19 Ban Muslims marrying Sinhala women and polygamy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

20 Ban Sending women slaves to Middle East etc.\nProvide employment for them at Home improving the home economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annex 11 new Constitution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Sinhale\/Sri Lanka<\/strong>\nConstitution should be based on the following historical foundation and\npremises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Historically\nthis country had remained the Traditional Homeland of the Sinhala Nation, at\nleast from 543 BC up to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 Since 307 BC\nit had been the only Sinhala Buddhist nation in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 Firstly,\nSinhalese Buddhists were the people who found, developed and fostered the\nunique Sinhala Buddhist civilization on this Island. It was also they who\nprotected it from all foreign devastations firstly, the Indians, more\nparticularly, South Indians, starting in the 2nd century BC up to the 12th\ncentury AD (culminated in the barbaric Maagha devastation), who razed\nAnuradhapura and Polonnaruwa civilizations (that ranked among the best in\nancient and medieval world) to the ground. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secondly, it was\nvirtually destroyed for 443 years from 1505 to 1948 by the Portuguese, Dutch\nand British invasions. In all these wars it was the Sinhala Buddhists who had\nto face the brunt of the invader and die in battle in millions in defense of\ntheir Motherland. Among the long list of brutal and savages atrocities carried\nout by these invaders, shooting all those who could not be arrested, hanging\nthem then and there, burning down all fields, houses and barns and slaughtering\nall animals of the natives to feed the soldiers of the invader could be cited\nas few example of the cruel crimes carried out by these invaders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 The name of\nthe country ceded to British in 1815 was Sinhale as given in the Kandyan\nConvention of March 2. 1815. Except Taprobane and Serendib all other names over\n23 like Zeylan and Ceylon simply meant the Land of the Sinhala people. Even the\nTamil word EELAM means the land of the Sinhalese. This clearly shows that,\nright throughout history it was the Sinhala imprint that has flourished on this\nland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 Sinhala\nBuddhists were the architects of the civilization in this country, who fought\nrelentlessly for millennia against the South Indian and thereafter Portuguese,\nand British invaders from 1505 to 1948and died in millions in battle to defend\ntheir motherland in the savages and brutal 1818 and 1948 especially in Uva and\nMatale historic uprisings against the British. It was they who lost all their\nlands in battles fighting against the enemies to defend the motherland for\nposterity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 None of the\nTamils or Muslim at any time has supported the native Sinhalese in these wars.\nInstead they took the side of the enemy and particularly the Muslims, both in\nthe Uva and Matale freedom struggles who supported the British by transporting\ntheir provisions, guns and ammunitions from the harbours to the interior and by\nspying against the Native Sinhalese. When Muslims were brutally murdered by\nPortuguese in 1665 and when those who survived ran to the King in Kandy it was\nthe Sinhala King who saved them and settled in the Panampatuwa (these are the\nungrateful people now asking for a separate State in the South East)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 In the period\nof early political agitations even Tamil scholars wrote on the Sinhala Buddhist\ncivilization in this country and accepted that this had been the Land of the\nSinhalese from the dawn of history and they were the architects of the unique\ncivilization in this Island nation. See what P. Arunachalam in his Sketches of\nCeylon History (1906) and Ananda Coomaraswamy in his classic Medieval Sinhalese\n(1905) wrote and concluded about the Civilization of the country. It is a\ntragedy and a pity too that the present day Tamil politicians don\u2019t understand\nwhat these great Sri Lankans had said. I invite extreme communalists like\nSambandan, Vignesvarana and Sumanthiram to read these books and find out as to\nwhere they should stand in this country. Instead today they all follow a\nMalaysian born Catholic Tamil Chelvanayagam, who had migrated to this country\n(around 1903) as a 4 year old boy who later became the Father of Ilankai Tamil\nArsukachchi idea (1947) and Grandfather of modern Tamil extremism in this\ncountry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 Even as late\nas 1965 K. Indrapala professor of History in his PhD \u2018Thesis Dravidayan\nsettlement in Ceylon\u2019 concluded that there were no Tamil settlements in the\ninterior of this country until the 13th century and they were confined to a\nnarrow coastal strip in the north and East. I am talking here on  Indrapala, who wrote  his PhD \nThesis in 1965 and not what he had said recently at LTTE gun point in\nhis “The Tamils of Sri Lanka”: (300 B.C.-1200 A.D.)- <\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 All minority\nraces including Tamils and Muslims are thus only descendants of immigrants who\nhad come to this country from time to time either as traders, invaders, slaves\nof colonial powers or illicit immigrants. Tamils in the North and East were\nbrought as slaves after 1505 by the Portuguese, Dutch and British to work in\ntheir projects. There are very few who descend from those left behind by early\ninvaders. The last category is the Estate Tamils who were brought as indentured\nlabour by British to work on their Coffee and Tea plantations after 1840.\nTherefore they were British citizens who were left behind by the British when\nthey left in 1948. As such none of these categories   has any legitimate right to call this\ncountry their motherland unless and until they become full citizens of this\ncountry after learning the Language and history of the land and integrate with\nthe native Sinhalese. The irony is none of these people accept this country as\nthe land of the Sinhalese. Instead they all want separate independent and\nself-ruling regions carved out from this Land. Some people like the LTTE and\ntheir proxies have declared even war against the natives claiming the land of\nthe Sinhalese for 30 years. All native politicians who are supposed to have\nruled this country since 1948 are responsible for this unfortunate situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appendix 111<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Process of elections<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selection and Election\nof Members to the Jatika Rajya Sabha and other Sabhas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 (see sec 12 Mahanuwara Charter 2019 )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Candidates at different levels shall be first\nselected by the respective Councils on public consensus by Nomination by the\nCouncil or self- application, from among qualified and distinguished persons\npermanently resident within such electorates. (They also can hold a primary\nelection to select them). They will be elected on a non-party basis as there\nwill be no parties in this system, on the first past post basis on and\nelectoral basis thereafter. The simple criterion for selection shall be\nall-round suitability to hold public position. \nThis system will see the real Mahasammatha principle in practice. (Since\nElections to JRS, are conducted at District levels for the purpose of electing\nthem, the District Council will submit the lists<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There shall be 3\nor 2 names for each electorate, for the JRS candidates from among whom the\nvoters of the respective electorate will elect 1 for the JRS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only persons\nwith permanent residence within the electorate are qualified to be nominated\nfor any given electorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The persons who\ncome first in each electorate will go to the Jatika Rajya Sabhava.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the\nconclusion of the Election the Commissioner of Election will announce the list\nof Jatika Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Please see\nTowards a Government without Political Parties; Key to a New Political Culture\nin Sri Lanka for details). It may also be useful to refer to the election\nprocess adopted during the State Council days)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these crazy\npeople must learn the wisdom of Rev Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith (one of the\ngreatest sons of Sri Lanka in modern times} latest statement where he said\n“Buddhism in this country is the big tree and other religions are only\nsmall branches of the big tree.’ In my opinion this is by far the best\ndescription of the Sri Lankan society made by any religious dignitary or a\nhistorian ever. The same thing could be said with regard to ethnicity as well.\nAccordingly, I will put it as “Sinhala race in this country is the big\ntree and other communities are only small branches of that big tree”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why can\u2019t the\nTamil and Muslim politicians, the treacherous NGOs, Colombian Sinhala\npoliticians and the so-called International Community (the five anti Sinhala\ngroups) also understand this all-time reality, and learn to live together\nwithout quarrelling with the Sinhala people who are the true Bhoomiputras of\nthis land. Both Tamils and Muslim could be compared to ‘parasitic plants on a\nSinhala banyan tree’ struggling to kill it and trying to be the banyan tree.\nNow the time has come for Sinhala Statesmen to compel these immigrants either\nto accept this gospel truth and try to live amicably with the native Sinhalese\nor leave for good for their own motherlands. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If all these five\ncategories could understand the wisdom of Rev Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the day\nthey do so, on that day, ends the ethnic and religious clashes in this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                               \nThe end  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200e5\/\u200e8\/\u200e2019     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Sudath\nGunasekara <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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