Juda after the last "Hopper", sold his leader and friend to his enemies.

This is for those in Yahapalanaya who champion SLFP remaining with UNP.

Some where in the month of November, 2014, Maithripala Sirisena shared the “last hopper” with his political leader and friend and broke away from the SLFP to the opposite camp led by UNP.

It was exactly the opposite of what SWRD Bandaranaike did in 1951, when he broke away from the UNP and left to form his own political party the SLFP.

Maithripala Sirisena had no one to accompany him  when he left the SLFP to join the UNP, where as SWRD had a number of followers  who left the UNP along with him who formed the SLFP in 1956.

Maithripala Sirisena had Ranil Wickramasinghe the UNP Leader  and Chandrika  Kumaratunga ( an unconvinced SLFP er) to welcome him to the UNP side.

But SWRD  as the leader of  SLFP  had the Sri Lanka left wing political leaders, Philip Gunawardhane , N.M.Perera, Dr.S.A.Wickramasinghe, Colvin R. De Siva, Peter Keuneman  and others to welcome him , who later founded  along with SLFP the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna.

Maithripala Sirisena left the SLFP to became a part of the UNP led Common Opposition  to SLFP. Later power seeking politicians in the SLFP like Sarath Amunugama, Mahinda Samarasinghe, S.B.Dissanayake  et al trickled in  to take refuge behind Maithripala Sirisena.

As long as President Maithripala Sirisena remains a part of the UNP lead Government , he has no moral right to be the President of the SLFP. Therefore in reality it would still be Mahinda Rajapakse who is the President of the SLFP which was founded by SWRD Bandaranayake.

President Mahinda Rajapakse what ever his adversaries have to say about him was a generous leader. He  knew that with Maithripala Sirisena  as the President some of the members of the SLFP  greedy for power would leave the party like rats leaving a sinking ship.

Therefore, Mahinda Rajapakse did not want to be responsible for the breakup of the SLFP of SWRD Bandaranayake, who built the Party for the people of Sri Lanka and for the progress of it, economically, socially and culturally. Therefore seeing that the power greedy members of the SLFP were already trickling to  sit on the shade besides Maithripala Sirisena, the President Mahinda Rajapakse the visionary leader he was took a decision to hand over the Presidency of the SLFP to the new President.

In doing so on the 16 January,2015, he said  that ‘…..Having held membership and various offices including the Party leadership, and having nurtured and safeguarded the Party with great dedication for over 50 years, I am taking this decision as I have a great dislike to see the Sri Lanka Freedom Party face the danger of division.”

For Maithripala Sirisena that was an unexpected windfall. He accepted it without any graceful word of gratitude. His letter of acceptance addressed to the President Mahinda Rajapakse was not like a letter of a farmer’s son elevated to the high office of a President, not the words of a President  addressed to his people- not only to  the 62 lakhs who voted for him but also to those who voted against him.

Maithripala Sirisena if he is a good Buddhist President, he should not spit venom at anyone not even at his enemies. Becoming the office of a President is a great responsibility because once elected he becomes the President of all the people of the Country those who voted for him, as well as those who voted against him, of his friends and of his enemies.

But Srisena nevertheless wrote a pretentious, grotesquely  hateful, letter which does no honour even  to the name “Maithripala” he bears.

He wrote, “Both of us entered national politics from this great party. The SLFP and the voters who kept their faith in it made you the Executive President of this country twice. However, I have become the President in a different manner. That is, by challenging you as the candidate of the common opposition, and by giving leadership to and organizing the growing discontent with your administration. Thereby, I have been able to retain the Executive Presidency within the party as it was slipping away from you and the party. The secret to my success of winning the trust of all opposition parties and groups that stood against you was the inseparable, untainted and genuine relationship between me and the SLFP.”

History of Sri Lanka are plenty of stories of persons who honoured and respected their defeated enemies. After all Maithripala Sirisena cannot have any personal animosity against the man with whom he had the “last hopper” before he caste him to the hostile arena of political enemies. That only shows how low people can fall even in winning the highest office in  the country.

What appears to have happened today is that the President Maithripala Sirisena has become a decotration , his voice not been heard on important political issues that has set fire on the minds of Sinhala Buddhists. He is unable to  execute what he thinks is correct and rectify the errors  of  his Prime Minister.

His hands are bound by whatever agreements he may have entered into with UNP, TNA,JVP, JHU, SLMC and the rest. He saw the worst Bond Scam ever happening before his eyes, but he could not even sack the miscreant Governor of the Bank. He appointed a Presidential Commission of Investigation into the Bond Scan but the UNP Ministers called to give evidence was not allowed to be cross examined. Then again when the Prime Minister was about to be called before the Commission, the Commission was asked to terminate further sittings.

Maithripala Sirisena has become this Yahapalanaya Government’s President for reconciliation with Tamils and nothing else. He pardons the LTTE sympathisers who had attacked him, but he allows  Mahinda Rajapakse , his family and his supporters to be accused on false allegations.

The Local Government elections are prolonged even by use of  ruse and falsehood.

A ridiculously , but a most disastrous  interim report on the new Constitution to be written is placed before the Parliament. In the proposed  Sinhala version of the  Constitution they use a Tamil word to define Unitary as if the Sinhala language has no word to define ‘Unitary’. They use the word Orumittanadu abandoning even the Tamil word hitherto used to define Unitary in the Tamil version of the 1978 Constitution.

The English version of the Constitution is also to  have the word ekiya/ orumittanadu  instead of unitary. Who in the world reading our constitution in English will understand  what is  Ekiya Orimittanadu ? Are they writing a Constitution or a Comedy ?

The President with his hands bound is helpless – he has to say yes to his Prime Minister who  in turn is  bound by his white masters of the West to write a New Constitution at all cost. The President acts as required by his Prime Minister, as a tool for reconciliation. The National Anthem is already mutilated, being  sung in Tamil by the Tamil and in Sinhala by the Sinhala.

If Sri Lanka is to be saved the writing of the new Constitution should be stopped and executive powers of the President should be restored.

In this  present situation if the President hesitates to put his foot down and say no to evil actions being perpetrated against Sri Lanka by Ranil Wickramasinghe and his UNP cohorts, the President Maithripala Sirisena will go down to history as a puppet President who sold Sri Lanka to Tamils on a pseudo reconciliation project where only the Sinhala people want reconciliation while Tamils want separation.

If Maithripala Sirisen as the President is unable to use his Presidential authority or executive powers to stop the writing of a new Constitution based on the interim report now before them in the Parliament, the SLFPers who had taken refuge behind  the President should have the courage and the  intelligence  to leave him.

Because,  in not taking any action to stop Ranil Wickramasinghe and his UNP companions continuing to destroy the sovereignty , independence, and unity amoung the Communities in Sri Lanka, all those SLFPers supporting  Maithripala Sirisena will be equally  responsible for destabilising and ending the 2500 or more years old Sri Lanka that belong primarily to the Sinhala Buddhists, and then to the minory communities who had accepted to live with the Sinhala as Sri Lankans..

Which way is Sri Lanka Going ?

It has to be determined by all the members of the SLFP in the Parliament. If they are real patriots and members of the SLFP formed by SWRD Bandaranayake they should stand as one against the interim report for a new Constitution which is due to be debated in Parliament. They should  refuse to give the two third majority to pass the destructive document as a bill which would be the basis for a Constitution with a definite Federal Character as demanded by the West and the Tamil Diaspora.