The so called Yahapalanaya government which had
been deceiving the people of this country ever since Maithripala Sirisena was
elected President of Sri Lanka on the 8th January,2015, has no right
what so ever to precipitate to write a Constitution for Sri Lanka.
Today the
people of Sri Lanka
are divided as they had never been before. The Tamil terrorists have been
eliminated but they have reappeared in another form-“Wigneswaran, TNA and the
Tamil Diaspora-the three evils ”, to be an important supportive group of the
Sirisena Ranil Yahapalanaya Government. This Sirisena Ranil government will do
any thing , make any sacrifice to retain the support of the “three evils”.
Hence to
allow the Sirisena Ranil government under these circumstances to write a new
Constitution is to make Sri Lanka a “sacrificial
lamb” of this Yahapalanaya Government on the altar of reconciliation to satisfy
the Tamils, the ultra Tamil Wigneswaran and the Tamil diaspora-“the three evils”
Therefore under
no circumstance should the Sinhala Buddhists of Sri Lanka allow this pseudo Yahapalanaya Government of Sirisena
–Ranil to write a new Constitution for Sri Lanka . Kiriella a UNP Minister
of this government says that they would give 13 plus and abolish the executive
presidency.
These UNP
yes men to Ranil Wickramasinghe- their leader, even two years after they have
taken over the government of Sri
Lanka find it extremely difficult to leave
out President Mahinda Rajapakse to cover up their sins, and make people believe
that they are same as him. Kiriella says that the new Constitution may
grant 13plus as proposed by Mahinda Rajapakse. They have only the name of
President Mahinda Rajapakse to save their skins, but they –all of them put
together can never equal the man that is Mahinda Rajapakse.
They swear
that the new Constitution has not been written as yet but only the proposals by
the five Committees have been presented. But the proposals do not give any
assurance that they will finally be able to write an acceptable Constitution.
This government does every thing in stealth hiding facts not only from the
people but also from the President Maithripala Sirisena blissfully ignorant of
what is going on behind his back.
There is no
reason why this Sirisena Ranil Yahapalana government should at all write a new
Constitution when the 1978 Constitution is an acceptable document which had
served its purpose during the most critical period of the recent history of Sri Lanka . Any
required Constitutional changes could
easily be made by Constitutional amendments.
There may
had been a reason why the President Mahinda Rajapakse did not remove the
13Amendment, but now it has to be removed from the Constitution and retain the
executive powers of the President intact, as we have still not distanced from
the past period of terrorism and political turmoil which still continue to
haunt us.
The Present
Yahapalanaya government does not take any thing seriously. As they have
mismanaged the economy of Sri Lanka they without accepting their disastrous
bungling since their taking over the Government of Sri Lanka on the 8th
January,2015, act like a “bull in a glass shop” taking haphazard decisions to “patch
up” their wrong doings. As the Sirisena
–Ranil government is now in very critical financial straights, they have begun
selling Sri Lanka ’s most
valued “treasures” such as the unique natural harbour at Trincomalee, 15
thousand acres of prime land in the
South , Mattala Airport
, Lankan Air Lines, and part of the Colombo harbour etc.
The UNP
Ministers and now some of the SLFP serniors like Mahinda Samarasinghe, Sarath
Amunugama are bragging that they have
done what President Mahinda Rajapakse failed to do, which was to bring Sri
Lanka into the fold of the West. But what have they received from their new
found friends of the West. Their Western friends have still not taken up even a single major
development project. But they are nevertheless profiting from Sri Lanka ’s
dive into disaster. It was the same that the West did with the misfortunes of Greece . It is Germany and France
that gained from the misfortunes of Greece .
Ranil
Wickramasinghe hoped that America
would have come to his aid with his Mount
Pelerin connection , and even began by
insulting China to give the
West the signal that he was on their side against China . But the America and the West treated him just like they treated his uncle
J.R.Jayawardana-nicknamed Yankee Dikee, who expected America and the West –to be his his
safety net against Indian thuggery.
But Ranil
Wickramasinghe dependence on America
is fathomless. American Embassy had said that they would help the Government to
write the Constitution( things may change with the new USA President Donald Trump). The
Yahapalanaya is said to have engaged an American Company DAI, which some say
has CIA connections as well it describes itself as follows:
“Forty years on the frontlines of global
development confirm the interconnectedness of development challenges. Conflict
mitigation touches on issues of effective civil society, legitimate governance,
equitable use of natural resources, and poverty reduction. Poverty reduction in
turn intersects with economic reform, global competitiveness, private sector engagement,
and the prevalence of debilitating diseases. And so on. Our development
specialists reach across technical disciplines to shape the integrated
development solutions that promise transformational development results……...”
It is said the Prime Minister wants DIA to organise
the Parliamentary Commissions and other Administrative aspects of the government.
Is the Prime Minster Ranil Wickramasinghe internationalising Sri Lanka ? He has also requested
Eric Solheim the notorious Norwegian to come to Sri Lanka to help him with the
reconciliation. “The Prime Minister’s office, meanwhile, said
that Wickremesinghe sought Solheim’s assistance on environmental
issues.”
The
Yahapalanaya Government has no sense of values. They want to make Sri Lanka a Singapore . They want to sacrifice
the Buddhism and Sinhala culture for an imagined reconciliation with the Tamils
and the Muslims. They do no understand that there could never be a real
reconciliation with the Tamils unless they give up their call for
a separate territory for the Tamils and agree to live with all Communities.
Perhaps it is
well for both Tamils and Muslims in Sri Lanka to reflect on words,
“when you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice”
pronounced by US President Donald Trump in his inauguration speech on the 20th
January,2017.
It is not
the Sinhala that should move towards Tamils
but it is the Tamils who should come to the Sinhala to assure their sincerity
to reconcile with the Communities. As it is the Yahapalanaya exercise of reconciliation is turning of tables.
The
Constitution of Sri Lanka
should retain the elements of the first Constitution prepared by the British
when they granted Independence to Sri Lanka . Any
Country’s Constitution is written by the Majority Community safeguarding its
religious and cultural identity . The
minorities of the Country are not consulted in the writing of a Constitution. But the Majority Community
allows the minorities the right to religious worship and maintain their
cultural identities.
It is
for the minorities to accept the constitution written by the Majority.
It should
be the same with Sri Lanka .
There is no reason to give special concessions to Tamils because the Tamil
terrorists were allowed to carry on their terrorism for thirty long years.
The
Constitution should also protect the territoriality of Sri Lanka ,
therefore the Muslims should not be allowed to clear forests and open
unauthorised Muslim settlements where ever they want. And the Tamils should not
be allowed to attack Buddhist Temples or destroy Buddhist Statues anywhere in the
Island, nor allow them to chase away the Sinhala from occupying their lands and
property any where in the Island.
Wigneswaran,
Mano Ganeshan, Sampanthan , Rishad Bathiudin or Faizer Mustapha have not to be consulted in writing the
Constitution of Sri Lanka. It is for the Sinhala Buddhists to write the
Constitution, if it has to be written at all. But the 1978 Constitution should
be continued to be used, but provision with regard to 13 Amendment should be
removed.
The
Constitution should be amended to Accept Sinhala as the National Language, to
make the National Anthem sung in Sinhala only, rename Sri Lanka as Sinhale, and
re establish the Ancient Sinhala Lion
flag brought down by the British
when they colonised Sri Lanka in 1815.