{"id":98486,"date":"2020-01-31T15:26:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T22:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=98486"},"modified":"2020-01-31T15:26:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T22:26:37","slug":"no-constitutional-provision-to-sing-national-anthem-in-tamil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/31\/no-constitutional-provision-to-sing-national-anthem-in-tamil\/","title":{"rendered":"No Constitutional Provision to sing National Anthem in Tamil."},"content":{"rendered":"

By : A.A.M.NIZAM \u2013 MATARA<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n

The evil trio\nSambandan\/Sumanthiran\/Wigneswaran who fervently desist the people\u2019s victory in\nthe presidential election and look at everything cynically and matters to\ndefame and and discredit the government and thereby project Sri Lanka as a\nnation of discrimination, suppression and a despotic country have taken up\nNational Anthem as their latest punching pad. \nTheir cohorts, the foreign based diaspora scribes, the pro-UNP Tamil\/NGO\nelements and surprisingly the ignoramus and nincompoop Tamil Nadu politicians\nsuch as Stalin, the current leader of DMK (inTamil this party is known as Thi\nMu Ka and some people say it represents for Thirutta Mudiyatha Kaluthaikal\n{The donkeys that cannot be tamed} as well have joined the chorusexpressing\ntheir objection to singing the National Anthem only in Sinhala at the\nforthcoming Independence Day on February 4th<\/sup>.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before proceeding further it is important\nto say a few words to this Tamil Nadu fellow that he should keep his politics\nconfined to Tamil Nadu and not attempt to meddle with Sri Lankan affairs and if\nhe has any guts and gumption launch a demand to sing the Indian National Anthem\nof Bengali language Jana Gana Mana\u201d in Tamil in the next Indian Independence\nDay.  If he made such a demand then this\nstupid will get a real and unforgettable treatment of cow dung bath from the\nordinary street folks in Chennai, before the Indian government take appropriate\naction against him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are nearly 200 countries in the\nworld and in all these countries, countries even with multiple official\nlanguages suchas India the National Anthem is sung by only in one language and\nin some countries it is sung by a language other than the official language of\nthat country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\ninstance :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nIndia  – in Bengali Language although the\nofficial language is Hindi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nSingapore \u2013 in Malay language<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nMalaysia \u2013 in the Indonesian language, Java<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Sri Lanka prior to 1948 the British\nNational Anthem God save the King\/Queen\u201d was sung at official functions.  The Cabinet formed by the Prime Minister\nD.S.Senanayake in 1948 had a quandary of selecting an appropriate song to be\nsung at the 1949 first independence day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minister J.R.Jayawardene then suggested to\nuse the Namo Namo Maatha\u201d song sung by Mr. Ananda Samarakoon and his chorus at\nthe National Congress of Sri Lanka in 1934. \nHowever a Cabinet Sub-committee under the chairmanship of E.A.P.\nWijeratne was appointed to select an appropriate song and Messrs. J.R.Jayawardene,\nG.G.Ponnambalam and C,Sittambalam served as members of thar Committee.  The Committee summoned Mr. Ananda Samarakoon\nand suggested some minor changes for which Mr. Samarakoon agreed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accordingly Namo Namo Maatha\u201d became the\nofficial National Anthem of Sri Lanka. \nMany linguistic scholars objected to the term Namo Namo\u201d saying that it\nis inauspicious and it was the reason for the sudden death of D.S.Senanayake\nand many other unexpected bad omens around that time and accordingly Namo Namo\nMaatha\u201d was changed as Sri Lanka Maatha\u201d. It is stated that Mr. Ananda Samarakoon\nwas highly annoyed about this change and it contributed to his suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A terrorist diaspora scribe has written in\none of his articles that the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe Government did enact\nseveral constructive achievements favourable to Tamils and chief among them was\nthe climate of ethnic amity and harmony it brought about. A key factor in this\nwas restoring the practice of singing the national anthem in Tamil again. This\nchange was best illustrated by the singing of the national anthem in Tamil at\nthe annual day of independence celebrations. It has been the practice from 2016\nto 2019 for the national anthem to be sung in both Sinhala and Tamil at the\nfreedom day event. The ceremony began with singing the anthem <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016 the Tamil\nand terrorist diaspora servile government which blatantly and shamrlrssly\nigmore and neglect the aspiraions of other people created an unwanted\ncontroversy through singing the National in Tamil as well from 2016\nIndependence Day Celebrations. This stupid and myopic government believed that\nby singing the national anthem in Sinhala and Tamil, the country would step\ntowards ethnic reconciliation.The\nquestion ewmains unanswered as to how does singing the national anthem in two\ndifferent languages bring two ethnic groups together? On the contrary, it\nhelped them to move further away from one another by singing the anthem as two\nseparate groups?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As per a foreign\nbased diaspora scribe thefirst\nTamil political leader to react against the contemplated move to sing the\nNational Anthem only in Sinhala was former Cabinet minister and Tamil\nProgressive Alliance (TPA) leader (the Indian descendent) Mano Ganesan. This\nIndian Origin Tamil (IOT) MP has expressed his criticism through posts on\nFacebook and Twitter. More importantly, He has also written to President\nGotabaya Rajapaksa protesting against the proposed move and released the\ncontents of the missive to the media. Ganesan has pointed out that Tamil\nwas enshrined in the Constitution as an official and national language and\nurged the President to desist from such a course of action. He also reminded\nthe President that sidelining Tamil was contrary to the pledge Gotabaya made at\nhis swearing in where he said he would function as the President of all Sri\nLankans. This nincompoop should be reminded that in his motherland India there\nare 22 constitutionally recognized lamnguages but their National Anthem is sung\nonly in Bengali although Hindi is the all Indian official language.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ganesan followed up his letter to\nthe President by participating in many meetings and televised programmes and\nexpressing strong criticism of the proposed move to abolish the singing of the\nNA in Tamil at the Independence Day event. He has also been posing the question\nas to whether the government wanted to set up a Sri Lankan Rajya\u201d or Sinhala\nBuddhist Rajya.\u201d 
\nThe main reason for Ganesan\u2019s concern over the national anthem issue is perhaps\ndue to the fact that the TPA leader played a constructive role in restoring the\nrightful status of the national anthem in Tamil. In fact, it was Mano Ganesan\nwho started the ball rolling in gaining recognition for the NA in Tamil after\nthe 2015 regime change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media reports appeared in early\nMarch 2015 that Mano Ganesan \u2013 who was not evenan an MP then \u2013 had raised the\nissue of the national anthem being sung in Tamil at the National Executive\nCouncil in ehich he was member, and the then President Maithripala Sirisena had\nresponded positively and reiterated the constitutional position that there was\nno bar on the national anthem being sung in Tamil. He had guaranteed that the\nNA would be sung in Tamil too. Now this IOT may be dreaming that he could\nmanipulate President GR as well like he kept shameless and spineless\nSirisena\/Ranil under his hackboot.  He\nshould understand that President GR has no obligation at all to listen to him\nand he is rightfully obliged to fulfil the aspirations of the people who worked\nand toiled day and night and under sun and rain to make him victorious in the\nelection and to put an end to the foreign and terrorist servile neo-liberal\ngovernment of Ranil Wickremasinghe.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 It is pertinent to ask this IOT that if he is\nso concerned about the National Antham Sri Lanka Matha why he remained silent\nand tongue tied when his swimmingpool paetner megalomanuiac Prabhakaran banned singing\nthis National Amthem and instead sing songs praising and glorifyting terrorism\nand terrorists.  This IOT should also be\nreimded the Supreme Court rejection of the petition filed by his Colombno\nmachan Pakyasothy Sarawanamuttu in 2016 pleading to declare tht NA should be\nsung in Tamil as well.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The megalomaniac Prabhakaran in\n2005 banned Sri Lankan Independence Day and decxlared it as a day of mourning\nand invited bards and Minstrels to write a national anthem\u201d with patriotic\nflavour glorifying and extalling the Tamil liberation struggle and submit it to\nhim within one month.  He said that the\nproposed national anthem should symbolise\nthe history of their\nstruggle and victories, and it should have a maximum of 18 stanzas in\n“immaculate Tamil.”
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\nFurther it was stated that the lyrics should extol the “virtues of those\nwho sacrificed their lives in the Tamil struggle, celebrate the unique\nqualities of exclusiveness and resourcefulness of the Tamil homeland, and\nmanifest the resoluteness, dedication and the aspirations of the Tamil people\nfor freedom and dignity.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many extremely pro-terrorists,\nincluding the terrorist poet Kasinathan submitted their songs and they were\nferoxiously against war heroes, Sri Lankan securityforces, condemning the\ncountryand calling thr Tamils to rise up against to destroy Sri Lanka.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accordingly from 2005 upto 2019\nuntil the terrorists were vanquished it was only terrorist songs that were sung\nin the North and East and these songs were even distributed in foreign\ncoubntries and why they have suddenly become Iinteresred in Sri Lanka Maath\u201d\nnational anthem and their demand to sing it Tamil as well is a well calculated\nploy to disrepute the country internationally and hence the government should\nstand firm and unwavering in its decision. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Sandagomi Coperahewa, Head\nof Department of Sinhala, University of Colombo opined that there may be two\nofficial languages, but the national anthem is one symbol and should carry the\nnational significance of a country. If it is sung in another language there has\nto be a Constitutional Amendment as well. He further statedd that even in\ncountries that have more than one language there is only one National Anthem.\nTake India for example, it has Hindi and English as official languages but its\nNational Anthem is highly Sanskritised Bengali. It\u2019s not even Hindi, but all\nIndians sing it. In Singapore there are Tamil, English, Malay and Chinese\npeople, but their National Anthem is sung in Malay. Translations could be there\nfor the purpose of understanding or interpreting, but everybody should sing it\nin one language,\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Dr.\nKalana Senaratne, Senior Lecturer, Department of Law, University of Peradeniya\nsaid it is clear that singing the national anthem in Tamil during the past few\nyears hasn\u2019t improved national reconciliation. It is also good to remember that\nwhether we sing the anthem in Tamil or not, Sinhala is considered as the\nprominent language, because it is the language of the majority. Therefore,\nsinging the national anthem in Tamil is simply a symbolic act, which is\nimmaterial to the advancement of national reconciliation in Sri Lanka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ven. Elle Gunawansa Thero enphasising\nthat it is our foremost duty to protect the independence and sovereignty of the\ncountry said that the political parties in the North have deliberately started\nthe demand for singing the National Anthem in Tamil to create chaos in the\ncountry to undermine the firthcoming elections. The Ven. Thero further stated\nsimilar to we jiuned to gether to get the independence abd similar to we joined\ntogether to liberate the country from the terrorists we must join together\nagainst these threats as well and explained that disgrunbntled foreign elements\nare behind these threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rear Admiral Sararath Weerasekera\nsaid that the denabd for singing the National Anbthem was not something that\noriginated from the Tamil o rMuslim in the North. It was something floated by\nracist politician and something that would violate our constitution.     It os a new attempt to create rivalry among\nthe communities.  There should pme\nnayipnal anthem for a country.  In India\nswaspite they havng a large population and a large number of communities and\nlanguages they sing only one national anthem and that is also in NBengali\nlangiage. He said that this is an unwanted stupid problem created Tamil amd\nforeign servile Sirisena\/Ranil government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thw terrorist proxy Sumanthiran\nwhose concerted efforts together with his rterrorist grandpa to segregate the\ncountry with theblessings of Ranul flopped has saiud that the attitude of the\npresent gocwenment has become abn obstruction doenational reconciliation and\nthe barrier imposed to sing the National Anthemin Tamil is one such\nexample.  He has reminswsrhar rhey\nattended the Independence day celebeations in 2015 after several tears because\nthat government made arrangement to sing the Anthem in Tamil as well.  He says the governmwnr promised to provide\nequal treatment to everyone and it is now being changed. Hehasfuerhwe stated\nthat if the government says that the Tamil people should not sing the National\nAnthem theywould happily ewdeain from doing so. Going to his eacist and\nseparatist agenda he has said that the main communitysidelined the Tamils\nseveral years ago and if that situation is to be changed there should be devolution\nof power amd then omly you could live in Sri Lanka as equal citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leader of the Pivithuru Hela\nUrumaya MP Udaya Gammanpila has said that in Clause 7 of the constitution it is\nstipulated as to what our National Amthem is and singing the Anthem in the\nTamil language will violate the constitution. \nAccordingly the National Anthem of the Republic of Sri Lanka is the song\nSri Lanka Maathaa\u201d . The verses and the nusic are stipulated in the 3rs\nsubchedule.  If verses other than what is\nstipulated in the 3rd<\/sup> sub-schedule was considered as the National\nAnthem it becomes a violation of the constitution.  Hence singing yhe Anthem as Sri Lanka\nThaate\u201d will become a gross violation of the constitution..If the change to be\ndone is a simple change it can be changed by a simpke majority in the\nParliamentvut a fundamental change like this requires an approval in the\nparliament ratified in a eferendum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continued\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By : A.A.M.NIZAM \u2013 MATARA The evil trio Sambandan\/Sumanthiran\/Wigneswaran who fervently desist the people\u2019s victory in the presidential election and look at everything cynically and matters to defame and and discredit the government and thereby project Sri Lanka as a nation of discrimination, suppression and a despotic country have taken up National Anthem as their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aamnizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98486","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=98486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}