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| Vasudeva Nanayakkara, DEW Gunasekara and Tissa Vitarana at Socialist Alliance May Day stage |
It is a
shame to see these Senior Ministers of the Government of the left and the old UNP defending the 13A. LSSP always fought for loss causes without
gaining any thing in return. Dew
Gunasekara spoke of their canvassing Jaffna
for elections, which they said proudly that the JVP and the JHU were unable to
do. But they did not say that though they stood for both Communities neither the Tamils in Jaffna nor the Estate
Tamils supported them at elections. Only in 1956 CP had one candidate P. Kandiah elected from a constituency in
Point Pedro. That was an exception,
nothing to cry to high heavens about. They
were never supported by the Tamils in the North and later they were shunned in
the South as well.
The leftist Ministers should realise that if they
had been more intelligent and supported
other parties without being self seeking the situation of the LSSP political movement would have been
different. In an article tracing the
History of the Left movement Leslie
Gunawadhane wrote,
“…The
question may well be asked as to what the position would have been if the LSSP
had joined the MEP in 1956
in putting forward the demand for Sinhala Only. There is
little doubt that the LSSP would have played a leading role in the movement for
Sinhala Only. It is also very likely that the position of the Left in general
and of the LSSP in particular would have been much stronger today among the
Sinhalese masses. Also the position of the SLFP would have been significantly
weaker. However, it is a moot question how much closer Sri Lanka would
have been to socialism.”
In the same
article Leslie Gunawardhana prophetically wrote, “….., the movement for a
separate state has grown with leaps and bounds among the Tamils of the North.
The situation may develop to a point when it is only Sinhalese domination by
military rule in the North that will be able to preserve the unity of the country.
And even such a unity maintained by force may not be able to continue for long
if an imperialist power decides in its own interest to back the movement for
secession by a supply of military aid.”
Rajitha Senaratne
is with one foot in the Government and with
the other foot still awaiting a chance to step out into his former fold with
whom he will be more at home. Vasudeva
Nanayakkara, Tissa Vitharana, Dew Gunasekara and Reginald Cooray are waging a
war against the JHU, JVP and Wimal Weerawansa to have a greater say within the
cabinet of the President Mahinda Rajapakse..
DEW
Gunasekara seems to be in a secret pact
with the TNA going all out to retain the 13 A knowing very well that it has no place in the Constitution
of Sri Lanka. DEW Gunasekara says that
there is a silent majority in the government who wants to retain the
13Amendment at all cost.
It may be
so as the PCs are jammed with relatives
and political henchmen of the Ministers
and SLFP supporters, some of them of doubtful character, and a “gold mine” for
others, making money by sale of Timber,
shifting of sand from river beds, offering contracts for transport, supply of material etc. to
different road construction projects.
They may not like the PC System coming to an end with the removal of the
13 Amendment for their own personal reasons.
DEW
Gunasekara should be sure even if he finds a silent majority in the Government in support of the
13Amendment, the mass of the people are against it, and the LSSP and CP will be
despised by the people as the they were despised both by the Tamils and the
Sinhala in the past. In 1946 LSSP voted
against the Bill for disenfranchisement
of plantation workers and earned the wrath of the Sinhala, and the Plantation
Workers who in their turn preferred the Indian
Tamil Congress of Thondaman to LSSP.
It was
reported that DEW Gunasekara had given
a new respectability to the India enforced 13 Amendment. “..Speaking on the argument relating to the
Indian involvement in the making of the 13th Amendment, Minister D.E.W
Gunasekara said the Indo Lanka accord was a culmination of debates that began
in the 1920’s and rejected the notion that it was forced upon the country by India.”
He must be
dreaming. This man should not continue to be a Minister of the Government of
the President Mahinda Rajapakse.
It was
reported recently in an Internet gmail forum that Rajiv Ghandhi when he came to
sign the India Lanka pact with the President JR Jayawardhana , he had already
selected a man to be the Governor of Sri Lanka in case JR Jayawardhana refused
to sign the Pact and had arranged to
have the Indian Army flown in to Sri
Lanka.
These four are naïve politicians with no foresight
of what anti Sri Lanka
forces are capable of doing to Sri
Lanka.
They are only inviting intervention for foreign forces to break away Sri Lanka perhaps to prove to Wimal
Weerawansa, JHU, and JVP what would
happen if the 13 Amendment is removed.
Reginald
Cooray too does not speak for the people as they do not care what the mass of
the people of Sri Lanka
think of the 13 Amendment. They are taken
up by their own selfish motives to even go against the people of the country if they can teach a lesson to Wimal
Weerawansa, JHU, and JVP.
Reginald
Cooray had said , “With the end of the war there was euphoria all around and
everyone ignored the root of the problem moving away from the need to address
the political problem. Racism, extremis, and the tribal mentality is the best
tape to be playing and is the oldest tape that has been played. We have to
learn from our past mistakes.”
Reginald
Cooray speaks as a politician well versed in International Politics and had said “ Citing international examples,
Cooray said that every nation which had diverse populations and cultures had
devolved power enabling them to become powerful nations.
“These
heroes who scream against the international community within this country don’t
know an atom about how political systems work. Every country in this world has
devolved power to a certain extent and that is a must,”
But
Reginald Cooray has failed to say which
are the countries in the world that have devolved power to the
minorities. Reginald Cooray thinks the
people are gullible to swallow every thing he says. But he
does not realise what is at stake is a worse situation, which is a possible
setting up of a Eelam State if the 13 Amendment is allowed to remain in the
Constitution of Sri Lanka.
The four
misled politicians of the left and the exUNP Rajitha Seanaratne say that they
want the country to go forward , but little they realise that they are the one’s
that are being barriers to the forward march of the country.
The LSSP
and the CP are in a process of slow death and perhaps their support of the
13Amendment will see their final demise.
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