{"id":96043,"date":"2019-12-06T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T23:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=96043"},"modified":"2019-12-06T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T23:08:56","slug":"the-birth-and-demise-of-unp-unpatriotic-non-national-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/12\/06\/the-birth-and-demise-of-unp-unpatriotic-non-national-party\/","title":{"rendered":"The birth and demise of UNP (Unpatriotic Non-national Party)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

The beginning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United National Party (UNP)\nwas formed in 1946 by the merger of the Ceylon National Congress and the\nSinhala Mahasabha to contest the first Parliamentary election of the Independent\nCeylon under the Soulbury Constitution in 1948, to enable the Westminster\nsystem of Government to function smoothly (as they said) under a party system,\nas Political parties are considered essential to the working of representative\ngovernment under a democratic system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is said that it was Henry Monk\nMason Moor, the then Governor (1944-1948) who suggested this name mischievously\nwhereby he implied that there are many nations in this country which was a\ncomplete travesty of authentic history of this Island nation as there had been\nonly one nation in this country from the dawn of history and that was The\nSinhala Nation. Contrary to this historical fact the British identified even\nTamils and Muslim communities living here, who were only descendants of alien\nimmigrants, particularly from South India, over time also as nations.\nIntroduction of this concept by the British was aimed at cementing the divide\nand rule policy of keeping Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim divided and the country\ndestabilized and to destroy the Sinhala Buddhist nation. This was the first\ntime anyone has implied Tamils and Muslims as nations in any country in the\nworld and it was also the first time they recognized any country with more than\none nation. Because every country in the world has only one nation as it is\ndefined in political science. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usually nationality is defined as\na \u2018spiritual sentiment or principle arising among a number of people usually of\nthe same race, resident on the same territory, sharing a common language, the\nsame religion, similar history and traditions, common interests, with common\npolitical associations and common ideals of political unity.\u2019 Within this\ncontext the Sinhala people are the only group of people, who could be called a\nNation, within this country, and that is how it had been recorded from the\ninception of history. Usually the name of the nationality of any country comes\nafter the language of the people who have found the civilization in that\ncountry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore Mason Moor\u2019s assumption\nhad no historical or a rational basis. As such it was absolutely wrong as there\nwas only one nation called Sihalese (Ceylonese as the British called them), in\nthis country even in 1946. What is more is at the time of ceding to Briton in\n1815, this country was known as Sinhale as documented in the Kandyan Convention\nand the nation at that time was also Sinhala. The word Sinhalese meant the\npeople of the Sinhale (the land of the Sinhala people), as it was known from\n543 BC and their language was Sinhala. On the other hand the only place on\nearth Tamils can claim to be a nation by way of this definition is Tmilnadu in\nSouth India, but curiously even there, they are not recognized as a nation.\nThere they are known as Indians. As for Muslims there is no nation called\nMuslim anywhere in the world. They are only a group of people following Islam;\na religious denomination as Buddhists or Catholics. The nationality of Muslims\nall over the world is decided not by religion but by the language or the\ncountry where they live, like America, Australia, New Zealand all newly\ncolonized countries by Europeans. Japan, China, India, Russia, England, France\nand Spain are few examples for the language category. As for the country\ncategory Pakistanis, Bengali, Egyptians or Iranians could be cited as\nexamples.  On the other hand there is no\ncountry in the world that has a nation named after a religion.  As such it is quite strange that only in this\ncountry Muslims are pretending to call themselves a nation. Therefore one can\nconclude that this multi-national concept in this country was purely a vicious\ninvention imposed on us by the British to consolidate their intrigue in\nrealizing the divide and rule in this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UNP was born as a non-national\nPolitical Party. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The term United National Party (UNP),\nit is argued, was invented to unite the different Nations in the country. Thus\nthe concept of the presence of many nations in this country gained legal\nrecognition for the first time in the history of this country in 1946. Native\nleaders led by D.S.Senanayaka blindly agreed to accept this new concept in a\nwink without realizing the total distortion of the Islands history and its long\nterm implications and the British coup behind it to destabilize and divide this\ncountry. The UNP did not object or protest to this historical blunder and total\ndistortion of the history of this country. Instead they meekly swallowed that\ncolonial virus. K.M. De Silva in his book \u2018The First Prime Minister of Ceylon\nD.S\u2019 has stated that D.S.Senananyaka was a strong supporter of the multi-\nnational, multi religious concept and he argued for a Lankan nation, in place\nof a Sinhala nation as it had been up to 1815. He also says D.S. believed in a\nsecular State and he rejected the idea of getting religion involved in the\naffairs   of the    State as he thought that will affect inter religious and\ninter-ethnic harmony.                                                                                                                                                                          \n                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              This stand on the part\nof D.S. would have fitted very well to the colonial agenda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first Betrayal by the UNP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This historical blunder later led\nto the concept of Sri Lanka being internationally accepted later as a\nmultinational country although Sinhalese constituted over 80% of the total\npopulation of the country even at that time (after changing the demographic\ncomposition  for 443 years from\n1505-1948, by colonial invaders) and put Sinhalese in par with the minority\ncommunities who all ways had their motherlands somewhere else unlike the\nSinhalese. Total population in 1946 was 6.657.300. (Sinh 4.673, 600; Ceylon\nTamils and Ceylon Moors 1.514 300. (CT 733,700. CM 780,600). The balance\nconstituted Indian Tamils and Indian Moors, Burgers and Europeans and Malay who\nwere not Ceylonese at that time. By doing so the British downgraded the Native\nSinhala nation, the Bhumiputras of the land and elevated the Tamils and Muslims\nto parity status with Sinhalese, the sons of the soil. This was the first  betrayal of the Sinhala nation by the UNP. I\nput the whole blame for this betrayal on all the leading politicians who agreed\nto accept this name and took over the country from the British in 1948. Thus at\nthe very outset the UNP started as an anti-national political party from the\npoint of view of Sinhalese as it did not recognize the Sinhala people as the\nNation or the bhoomiputras of this country and therefore I argue the UNP can\nnever be accepted as a National political Party that is suitable to be given\nthe power to govern this country from its very origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UNP failed to get full Independence to\nthis country or the Sinhala Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore\nthe UNP also failed in 1948 the UNP failed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 2) To get the name of the country Sinhale\u201d\nrestored. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) To get the freedom over the\nmotherland by asking the British to take back all those South Indian Tamils\nthey brought here to work on their projects, specially the plantations as cheap\nlabour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4) To get a Constitution of our\nown enacted based on our civilization  as\na fully independent and free State without just accepting a made in Britain\nConstitution drafted by them (Jennings) designed to perpetuate their control of\nthe Island and exploitation of its resources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5) To get our own legal and\nAdministrative system restored that was there for millennia <\/p>\n\n\n\n

6) To get the language of the\npeople of the country, Sinhala, declared as the official language of the State\nand finally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

7) To get full freedom and Independence\nfrom the shackles and clutches of colonial rule (by accepting Dominion status\nwhile India was declared as a Republic in 1951). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 To complete sovereignty by\ntaking over all aspects of defense and internal security by asking for Trinco\nand Ratmalana Air bases vested <\/p>\n\n\n\n

9) By leaving the executive power\nof the Island to continue to be vested in his Majesty in England under sec 45\nof the Constitution<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 By accepting the entire Legal\nand Administrative system prescribed by the British in order to continue their\nhold over the former Colony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This made the 1948 Independence a\nbig faux pass. Therefore the UNP has absolutely no right to claim that it has\ngot independence to this country in 1948. It only replaced the white rulers\nwith a local brown set of people who shared the same values as the British.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what is the Independence they got about\nwhich they boast so much<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very soon the UNP became a group\nof closely knit family circle that  was\nduped as Uncle and Nephew Party\u201d merely enjoying the fruits of political power\nfor personal gain serving the British colonial masters instead of building a\nfree and Independent nation as a country that has got independence from\ncolonial rule  and serving the natives..\nHistory has clearly proved that the first UNP Government has done nothing\ntowards this goal other than the continuation of the Dry Zone settlement\ndevelopment and irrigation work started during the State Council days with\nimmense contribution from people like S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka and S.A.\nWickramasingha. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bandaranayaka firing the first salvo of\ntrue Independence and freedom<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

S.W.R.D. Bandaranayaka\ndisillusioned by this negative approach of the UNP Government left it in 1952\nand formed the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. D.S the first Prime Minister died in\n1953.The native Sinhala Buddhists got disgusted and disillusioned over the\nneglect of their lost 2500 year birth rights like the language, religion and\nculture the disregard for their customs and values by the UNP and revolted in\n1956 and formed a new people\u2019s government under the leadership of national\nleaders headed by S.W, R. D. reducing the UNP to 8 seats in Parliament. This\nhistoric national resurgence movement was fuelled by the Buddhist Commission\nReport of 1953 and Eksath Bhikshu Peramuna led by a large number of prominent\nBuddhist monks in the Island. The new Government introduced a series of\npatriotic moves first, by making the Sinhala, native language of the nation,\nthe Official language of the country after 141 years. Thus the sons of the soil\nactually felt some sense of freedom only in 1956 and it is hailed as the dawn\nof a new era for in Sinhala Buddhist resurgence for the first time not only\nafter 1948 but also since 1848. It was popularly called the dawn of the age of\nthe common man. This brought to an end the first unsuccessful phase of the UNP.\nBut as the reactionary forces led by the Catholic church and the Western\ninterests assassinated Bandaranayaka in 1959 the UNP again raised its head\nagain in 1965 with a 3 months spell in 1960 march without any significant\nachievement in nation building. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this period Dudley\nSenanayaka, among other things, undid all what Sirima Bandaranayaka had\ncleverly done to settle the Indian \nEstate labour problem through her 1964 negotiations with  Indian Prime Ministers Sastri and 1974 with\nIndira, paving the way to keep back all Indians back at Home and thereby acted\ntreacherously against the Motherland and the Sinhala nation. Had Sirimas plan\nworked the way it was agreed upon, today there would have been no Indian\nproblem in the central hill country of this country. According to that\nagreement out of 825000 only 125000 had to be given Sri\nLanka citizenship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third UNP government was\nformed under J. R. Jayawardhana in 1977 he made a 360 degrees reversal of the\nall that good achievements of Mrs B on the Indian citizenship problem. His\nGovernment also completely reversed the nationalistic policies of the previous\nSLFP pro- Sinhala pro-Buddhist government, passed a new Constitution in 1987\nreplacing the 1972 Republican Constitution and introduced the Executive\nPresidential system of Government conferring enormous powers to himself as the\nExecutive President. He signed the infamous Rajiv \/JR Accord in 1987 by which\nhe agreed to declare the Northern and Eastern Provinces Comprising 1\/3 of the\ntotal area of the country and 2\/3 of the Island\u2019s coastal belt, paving the way\nfor separation and leading to a Federal State in the North and East with 9\nindependent Provincial Councils under the notorious 13th amendment with power\nover land with Judicial and police powers to be governed by 9 Provincial\nCouncils headed by 9 Governors and 9 Provincial Chief Ministers with  nearly 700 Provincial level MPP and 45\nMinisters, granting Citizenship to all Indians in this country over the counter\nover an affidavit without any conditions and without following the normal\nprocedure in granting citizenship to foreigners in any country, making Tamil\nalso a national language all over the country and thereby reversing the status\nof the Sinhala (language of the natives), that was the official language\nfor  21 years from 1956 the historic year\nof declaring it the official language once again after 1815, increasing the\nnumber of MPP in Parliament from 155 to 225 with 29 National list MPP specially\nmade to accommodate political stooges with no qualification without having to\nface the elections, politicizing the entire public service by  introducing a compulsory chit system from the\nlocal MP to get a Government job, giving a free hand for UNP goons to run the\ncountry, removing the Civil rights of the Mrs Bandaranayaka for 7 years,\nincreasing the number of Ministers in the central Government to nearly 112 at\nthe centre, creating a new kind of Ministers called State Ministers and non-\nCabinet  and creating 45 Ministers at the\nProvincial level are some of the prominent betrayals his government did ab initio<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This increased the number of\nsuperficial politicians, institutions and staff at least by five times and the\ngovernment expenditure went up exponentially by billions with very little\nbenefit to people and it completely disorganized and destabilized the\nprovincial administration that was smoothly run until then under an excellent\nsystem of District Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should also be noted that\nRajiv\/JR Accord of July 29th 1987 was singed under Island wide emergency using\nthe 3\/5th<\/sup> power he had in Parliament after getting all MPP to sign\nundated letters of resignation, under compulsion, and confining all of them to\na leading hotel in the city until they were driven to  Parliament to get the vote for this\ntreacherous Accord, thereby making democracy a big joke This was UNP democracy\nin practice. This clearly shows that the passing of this Accord in Parliament\nwas undemocratic and illegal from the beginning to the end. The biggest\npolitical coup during this time was the removal of Mrs Bandaranayakas\u2019 civil rights\nby the UNP in October 1980 for 7 years, blatantly violating not only all our\nage old traditional values and ethics of a Sinhala Buddhist society but also\nall basic tenets and ethics of human rights of the so-called modern world, by\njust acting as an servile agent of the Western colonial and imperial masters to\nsuppress an emerging independent nation in this country for their political survival.\nThis in short was how democracy was seduced under JR Government,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thereafter in 1982 he got the\nterm of Parliament extended for a second term of another 5 years under a\nreferendum conducted in the most undemocratic manner. They also had an election\nin 1989 March and R. Premadasa took over as the President. Other than starting\na garment industry and construction of few houses under Gamudava programme and\nconstructing clock towers at the roundabout all over the country, hardly any\nother significant development took place during this period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Again the UNP came to power under Ranil as PM\nin 2001 for a short period by accident. During this time he signed an agreement\nwith Prabakaran who had waged war against this nation to create a separate\nTamil Kingdom in the North and East of this land of the Sinhala Buddhists\nwithout the knowledge of President Chandrika and his government was sacked by\nChandrika in 2004. He was defeated by Mahinda Rajapaksa at the 2005\nPresidential election and was driven in to political wilderness until he got\nappointed unconstitutionally as PM again in Jan 2015 by Maitripala Sirisena a\nhired out SLFP man who became the President, with the help of a master intrigue\nby Western powers in collaboration with India and even local agents, after\nquitting and betraying the only Party that brought about the first wave of\nnational resurgence in 1956 after independence and that nursed him as a\npolitical cub for long years. The first job they jointly did was to rob the\nNation\u2019s Central Bank. Ranil as the Prime Minister was the chief architect in\nthis mega scam. But for obvious reasons the President has not taken any action\nagainst Ranil up to date, who got a Singaporean citizen Arjun Mahendran\nappointed as the Governor of the Central Bank and got him to rob the Bank  and there after send him back to Singapore\nand helped him to hide there in safety to date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was followed by a series of\nundemocratic conspiracies like the dissolution of Parliament in July 2015 to\navoid a Parliamentary debate on the COPE report, followed by August General\nelections, the second CB scam of 2016 and \na plethora of anti \u2013national, anti- Sinhala and unpatriotic actions such\nas selling national assets like Colombo, Hambantota and Trinco harbours\ntogether with 101 oil Tanks at Trico and \nAir Ports like Mattala and Pallali to India and China, allowing the\nTamil and Muslim extremists to run riots and betrayed the country at\nInternational forum like the UN and UNCHR and destroying the oldest political\nparty in the country by internal feuds for power directly goes to Ranil\u2019s\naccount. What more evidence is needed to show the disqualifications of the UNP\nto hold on to national politics in this country anymore? Right from its birth\nin 1946 the UNP leadership, thus, has never been patriotic. Starting from\nnaming the Party, blindly accepting the form of Government, machinery of\ngovernance imposed by Briton and formulation of all its policies the UNP had\nnever been inward looking. Instead of building up a free, Independent and a\nproud nation based on our own 2500 year old heritage it always looked up for Western\nadvice and Western advisors in all matters as if we were a nation who never had\na history or an <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to their miserable\npast record, looking at the ongoing infighting within the Party and the mess\nthey have made out of it how can anyone can expects them to run this country. The\nUNP is like a scrambled egg now.  As much\nas no one on earth can unscramble an egg scrambled none can put the UNP together\nnow. Ranil is the worst and the most undemocratic, self- centered,\nirresponsible and inefficient leader UNP ever had in its 72 years of history.\nHe had never been a Statesman or a man with a vision or a mission. He always\nhas thought and acted as an agent of the West. He never had his feet on this\nland and I would rate him as the worst leader the UNP ever had and more over he\nwill go down in history who signed the death warrant of UNP. Besides\nmonopolizing the leadership nearly for 30 years he also never allowed a second\ngeneration of potential leaders to emerge, neither at the top and the middle or\nthe lower levels.  He has never allowed a\nsuccessor to emerge. What is more is Ranil has destroyed it not only by taking\nin transitory passengers like Fonseka, Rajjitha, Mangala, Kiriella, Champika\nand removing all potential candidates belonging to the traditional UNP\nleadership like Rukman Senanayaka and Jayawarhanas  but also by aligning heavily with\nanti-Sinhala elements like TNA, Hakeem and Digambaran. Now that he has\ncompletely destroyed Sajit too, there is no one to be seen   even at the end of the dark and long tunnel\nwho could take up the leadership after him. So today the UNP has got reduced to\nan utterly disorganized, leaderless and radar less party with no future, as\ngood as it is already dead and buried thanks to Ranil, a classic political\nmisfit in Sri Lanka political history. He has dragged the UNP in to high seas\nand abandoned it there to sink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today as it stands even a tiny tot\nin a village compound can understand that there is no political party called\nthe UNP in this country any more. As one writer recently said History will write him (Ranil) off as\nmorally corrupt pimp of the West who dragged the Grand Old Party, the\nParliament and the people to the lowest moral level in the post-independent\nera\u201d<\/strong>. To this I would add that the UNP under his leadership during the past\n4 1\/2 years has ruined the whole country and the entire social system beyond\nrecovery. The knell of parting day will toll for Ranil on election night on\nNov 16. But how many UNP mourners will be there to follow him to his political\ngrave?\u201d So said the same writer quoted above quite rightly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With regard to the ongoing tussle\nbetween Ranil and Sajit some might have thought it was over with Sajith\u2018s\nappointment as the Presidential candidate. That is far from the truth. It is\nonly the beginning of another major conflict. Ranil did everything to defeat\nSajit. As I see it Sajit was not able to win even with all Muslim and Tamil\nvotes which Ranil deliberately garnered. Even if he had won by some miracle,\nRanil would have made it virtually impossible for Sajit to do his job as the\nPresiden, as tsubsequent incidents have clearly shown. Now the full scale war\nbetween Ranil and Premadasa has already begun it will drag the country from bad\nto worse. At the end none will win. Both will pass on to political oblivion\nalong with the Unpatriotic non-National\nParty that will be never heard thereafter after the next General election as\nthe UNP will get washed out completely from the minds of the Sri Lankan\nelectorate.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the overall the UNP has never\nbeing patriotic or people friendly. As it stands today it is almost dead and\nburied as a political party, thanks to Runil\u2019s 29 years of miss-leading that\ngrand old party. Its survival right throughout has rested on minority votes. It\nnever accepted this country as the native country of the Sinhala nation. Right\ndown from D.S. up to date it always treated this as a multi -national,\nmulti-religious and a multi-cultural country, not for anything else but for\npower hunger. Under Ranil it has gone down on record as the Political party\nwhich robbed the nation\u2019s Central Bank by its own leader, the Prime Minister of\nthe country. It is also on record that as the party that has sold the greatest\nnumber of national assets, as the party which has imprisoned the largest number\nof Buddhist monks and that kept the eyes closed while Tamils and Muslims were\nvandalizing most of the Buddhist heritage sites in the North and East while\nsome of its members like Mangala openly declaring that this is not a Sinhala\nBuddhist country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An open plea to all patriotic Sinhala\nBuddhists who are still with the UNP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am asking the following\nquestions from those all Sinhala Buddhists who still remain stuck like leaches\nand ticks to this treacherous ant-Sinhala and ant-Buddhist political outfit\nplagued with an obnoxious band of political rogues and nincompoops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Don\u2019t you feel ashamed as the descendants of\nheroic Sinhala forefathers who fought and died \nin battle to preserve this country for you to be a party to all these\nbetrayals by sticking to this Party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t you have an atom of brain\nto understand what these traitors have done to this country over the years and\nthe irreparable damage they continue to do this Sinhala nation, the country and\nthe Sambuddha Sasana <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t you feel guilty that you\nhave already become a party to the crime of destroying the Sinhala Nation   the motherland that has nursed you and your\nancestors for 2600 years, by supporting an unpatriotic outfit like this who\nhave come to power through your vote promising the Sun and Moon and ruined this\nParadise Island of yours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t you realize that all what\nyou had done so far by voting these rogues has only enriched them and their\nkith and kin only while you have gone down the slope of  poverty, misery and eternal hopelessness as\nindividuals and a nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t you see that the present\nday UNP is a dead and stinking corps that will never reappear again in this\ncountry under that name? The results of the Presidential Election just\nconcluded both on figures and on map clearly shows where the UNP stands in\nnational politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As such it is high time that you\nchange your maruvath kepuwat Kola blind mentality at least now, as there want\nbe any UNP after the next general election. Therefore I strongly advise\nyou  to bury the UNP mentality and align\nwith a new patriotic force where all Sinhala people stand united under the Lion\nflag to rescue this nation from the socio-political and economic mess in to\nwhich this government has put it within the past 4 \u00bd years. That is the only\nway the Sinhala people can save this country, the nation and the Buddha Sasana\nfor posterity and be forgiven your past sins for voting the UNP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now I appeal to all those mad\nand blind followers of UNP, who are still suffering from the incurable mania of\n\u2018Api kepuwat meruwath UNP\u201d to immediately leave these unpatriotic good for\nnothing bunch of strayed political rejects and get out of this rut as early as\npossible and join the patriotic forces at all future elections to save your\nbellowed motherland and the Sinhala nation from extinction, for reasons, I have\noutlined above. In this noble mission you have no alternative but to elect the\npersons selected and presented by the Mahasangha keeping with the age old\ntradition, as the most suitable representatives who can take this country out\nof the present pathetic situation. A vote for the UNP is a vote against the\nSinhala nation. A vote for the UNP is also a vote against this country and the\nBuddha Sasana.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it is, besides being\nunpatriotic and treacherous, the UNP today, has ceased to be an organized\npolitical Party that can come to power any more. It is struggling very hard in\na deep political cesspit to come out, whose bottom and width is immeasurable.\nTherefore I request all those of you who still dream of UNP, to form an\nentirely a new political Party under a different namesuitable to our native\ncontext like Sri Lanka Prajatantaravadi Paksaya or Sinhale Bhoomiputra Paksaya\nor any other based on the principles of a Civilization State\u201d in order to\nprovide an alternative political Force one day, to the ruling SLPP, which in my\nopinion will rule at least for another 15 years, if not more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the diehard UNP followers need\nan obituary to express their sorrow to the world over the demise of the UNP and\nan epitaph I would suggest they publish the following notice in all papers and\nother media channels to be inscribed as an memorable epitaph that will be\nremembered for centuries on its tomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tragic demise of the UNP\n(Unpatriotic non-National Party) BASTARD, son of the British Imperial colonial\ninvaders, left behind when they left this Island in 1948, brother of Ivor\nJennings, D.S.Seanayaka. Ponnambalam and Sundaralingam, Vice, Robbery and Corruption,\nuncle of JR, Premadasa and grandfather of Ranil and Sajit died under tragic\ncircumstances due to serious heart failure in the wake of Parliamentary General\nElection results 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cortege will leave Sirikota\nfor BIA at mid night to be taken to Westminster Abbey, in his motherland, by\nplane to be interred there after final burial rituals by his English relatives.\nWreaths and mourners are not welcome for fear of public turmoil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 (The remains of BASTARD UNP Born at London in\n1946- died in 2020 at Sri Lanka after fulfilling his avowed mission by the King\nof Great Britton in the name of the God, lie here in\npeace) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Pl note that this is an essay I wrote before the Presidential election\nand slightly changed to reflect the present status of the UNP) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) The beginning The United National Party (UNP) was formed in 1946 by the merger of the Ceylon National Congress and the Sinhala Mahasabha to contest the first Parliamentary election of the Independent Ceylon under the Soulbury Constitution in 1948, to enable the Westminster system of Government to function smoothly (as they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sudath-gunasekara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96043","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=96043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}