JVP HAD DUG ITS OWN GRAVE
BY EXPELLING ITS PATRIOTIC ICON MR. WIMAL WEERAWANSA.
A.A.M.NIZAM MATARA.
Politicians who are dear and near to the people and who selflessly
stand for the welfare of the masses getting chopped off, marginalized
or forced out by despotic or reactionary party bosses is a phenomenon
entrenched in the post-independence political culture of Sri Lanka.
The origin of this phenomenon dates back to the anti-people conspiracy
hatched by the elitist urbanite Anglophile reactionary cabal to deny
the late Prime Minister Mr. S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike the rightful place
to lead the party which he tirelessly co-founded. This immoral seclusion
developed with additional features to punish popular politicians and
Mr. Wimal Weerawansa is the latest victim of this despicable political
culture.
The history of the UNP is dotted with numerous incidences of punishing,
marginalizing and dismissing patriotic politicians. People friendly
R.G.Senanayake, M.D.H.Jayawardene, Gamini Dissanayake, Lalith Athulathmudali
and Dr. Neville Fernando to name a few in the old UNP, were forced to
leave the party or dismissed from the party for the crime of being friendly
with the people and for espousing patriotic causes. In the Ranil Wickremasinghe’s
western slavish UNP, Mr. Karu Jayasuriya a person who walked all the
way from Kandy to Colombo to build up the party image in the so-call
Jana Bala Mehayuma and several others who are patriotic and loyal to
the country were forced to leave the party without according them their
due place and giving prominent place instead to a tie-coat clan and
terrorist proxy green tigers who are averse to the Sri Lankan culture
and who do not hesitate to betray the nation’s interest at the
drop of a hat.
The SLFP although it is a party based on Sri Lankan cultural values,
and is held by a consolidation of patriotic rural masses of all communities,
suffered some setbacks due to reactionary intrigues and their skilful
use of reactionary agent Chandrika and her cronies. Reactionary Chandrika
was central to all internal conflicts suffered by the party for many
years. Reactionary and NGO combine parachuted her to prevent the patriotic
Mrs. Bandaranaike becoming the President of Sri Lanka. Under the tenure
of Chandrika, President Mahinda Rajapakse, who selflessly dedicated
his life to reinvigorate and strengthen the SLFP during its long neglected
years and bring it to its pristine glory was deliberately sidelined
and only her cronies who were unfit and alien to the SLFP political
culture reigned supreme. Ultimately to restore the people’s will,
Mr. Rajapakse had to fight and force his way to become the Leader of
the Opposition, the Prime Minister and the Presidential candidate.
This ignominy didn’t even spare the inapt regional and racist
political outfits where instead of the deserving individuals, tyrants,
dollar crows and enemies of the nation rose to highest and leadership
positions.
Wimal Weerawansa episode of the JVP is the latest of this tyrannical
suppression of the people’s voice in the Sri Lankan political culture.
Even in the JVP, this is not the first instance that those who attempted
to espouse the people’s aspiration had been suppressed or kicked
out to political wilderness. G.I.D.Dharmasekera, Loku Athula, Lionel
Bopage, and Nandana Gunatilleke are some among such victims.
Mr. Wimal Weerawansa, who had forgone his studies and all the pleasures
and joy of his youth for his dedicated service to build up and strengthen
the JVP, despite objection by his ailing father had worked under the
worstever political climate that existed in Sri Lanka seeing the looming
death in all his surroundings has emerged as the very icon of the JVP.
There is no one else in the JVP who is so dear and near to the common
man, who understood the heartbeats of the poor, who aspired for the
emancipation of the common man, who realized the problems and hardships
of the youth and above all selflessly loved this nation over and above
every other desire. He despised people who overtly and covertly act
against the interests and sovereignty of the nation and daringly condemned
acts that harmed and endangered the nation. His talent in convincing
the masses through his fiery speeches in Sinhala is unique and he has
a very rare capability of presenting issues in a credible manner to
convince his audience.
The backing Mr.Weerawansa received from a young group of JVP MPs itself
is testimony that he is a living idol of Sri Lanka’s rural youth
majority of them yet remains in the JVP fold, despite the conspicuous
anti-national, self-centred and arrogant deeds and acts of the old guard
of the party. He is undoubtedly one of the great contemporary patriots
which he proved by his words and deeds since he appeared in the political
map of this country. He is the right hand man of Ven. Elle Gunawansa
Thero in the Patriotic National Movement, and a strong pillar in the
Manel Mal Movement dedicated to serve the families of the security forces.
It was pathetic to listen to his self-explanatory parliament speech
and to learn about JVP decision to take action against this heroic patriot
who had selflessly dedicated a greater part of his precious life to
build and strengthen the very party. His purported crime for this stupid
punishment is failure to follow a party decision which in essence was
supportive of the terrorist cause.
It is utterly shame that what the conglomeration of reactionary, NGO,
alienophile and terrorist-proxy elements that unsuccessfully tried all
these years to defame and destroy this patriot has been undertaken by
the pro-reactionary and orthodox elements of his own party. And the
most despicable act is the Party’s hidden agenda of using him for
delivering electioneering speeches in the Eastern Province and expel
from the Party after conclusion of the election.
As per latest reports Mr. Weerawansa has been forced to go underground
as his life is reported to be in danger from the vicious elements in
the Party. These vicious elements have already in the hunt for the blood
of other JVP MPs who publicly backed Mr. Weerawansa, and one such MP
has been forced to claim allegiance with the Party after being kept
under house arrest. Action taken by the government to discover the robbed
vehicles of the dissident MPs and arrest the MP allegedly responsible
for these robberies is commendable. The Government should take immediate
and stern action to protect the life and property of all dissident MPs
and their kith and kin.
In the meantime, maximum security arrangements should be made to protect
Mr. Weerawansa and his family members who held various positions in
the JVP. Mr. Weerawansa’s life is in real danger not only from
the pro-reactionary and orthodox elements in the JVP but also from the
terrorist outfit and other anti-national elements. All possible arrangements
should be made to allow Mr. Weerawansa to express his views without
allowing the enemies of this nation to be complacent and take advantage
of the void that has been forced upon to deny the nation from hearing
his valuable views on the current political situation and the anti-terrorist
operation.
Let the patriotic voice of Mr. Weerawansa thunder in all the four corners
of the country and let it be a driving force against the terrorists,
the reactionaries and the vicious anti-social and anti-national elements.
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