Massive people’s vote to candidates of SLPP on 10 February,2018 was a vote against the Government.

2017 May Day Rally of the Joint Opposition under the leadership of President Mahinda Rajapakse  in Galleface,Colombo. A crowd never seen before in any manifestation in Sri Lanka 

Dambara Amila  thero , was seated with anti Buddhist Anti Sinhala  NGO clique- Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu, Nimalka Fernando , Chameera Perera, Saman Ratnapriya and host of others demanding that the war winning Army Commander Sarath Fonseka be appointed as the  Law and Order Minister to bring long delayed  high profile investigations  against the previous regime  to a successful conclusion.

The people have rejected long time ago the Buddhist monks in politics. Dambara Amila is no exception. He accuses the Monks of the Bodu Bala Sena for being disrespectful to the teachings of the Buddha. To quote a cliché,  it is the pot calling the kettle Black ?

As Bodu Bala Sena does not promote reconciliation which is a catch phrase of the foreign financed NGOs, Gnanasara thero is more acceptable than the Dambara Amila thero representing the  NGO clique.

Sri Lanka is not Colombo, Galle, Kandy or Hambantota towns. It was the ordinary people of Sri Lanka - the heart of the country’s culture, national patriotic sensibility, and the voice of the masses which on the 10 February, 2018 rejected the Yahapalanaya Government which mismanaged the country for the past three years.

Ravi Karunanayake surrounded by some of the Colombo North Supporters said that the UNP is prepared to go forward, with the promise it gave to the people on the 8^th January,2015. His people in Colombo north applaud and encourage him, but Colombo North is not the  measure of the pulse of the real people of Sri Lanka.

Karunanayaka is another crab in the same pot along with Dambara Amila. The water is beginning to get warm and they may  feel quite comfortable, but wait a little longer to understand what is in store for them when the water begins to heat up.

We saw Ratana thero and  Champika Ranawaka trying to impale the President Mahinda Rajapakse  who gave the people peace and security , which the ordinary people who really suffered under  terrorism and sacrificed their children for the victory over the terrorists will never forget.

It is still the war heroes who sacrificed their friends in the struggle, gave their blood and limbs to save the country for us to live in peace and without fear,  who stand up to defend our country against traitors of the nation like the Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera who sold the good name of Sri Lanka Armed Forces at the Geneva UN Human Rights Council asking forgiveness from Sri Lanka’s foreign enemies  for “errors committed by the Sri Lanka Armed forces”   like a gutter rat before wild cats.

In contrast our war heroes do not cringe  even in foreign countries to defend our country and our Armed Forces. Against all odds our war heroes do not to allow the enemies of Sri Lanka to insult and shame the Nation,  as  it was demonstrated by the fearless war hero Brigadier Priyanka Fernando, the Defence Counsellor of the Sri Lanka High Commission in UK, when the diaspora Tamils trampled on the  lion flag of Sri Lanka,  hoisting shamelessly the flag of the  LTTE Terrorist,   or  by Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara a former Chief of Staff of Sri Lanka Navy  who against tremendous odds to secure time and space at the sessions of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva  presented  the case  of the Sri Lankans the victims of the LTTE terrorist Campaign  for over three decades.

Dambara Amila thero undoubtedly a beneficiary of the NGO largess , should know that as a Buddhist Priest  and a Scholar of the Jayawardhanapura University he should be with the ordinary people of the country and not with theNGO clique  who are doing their job of serving their NGO masters shamelessly betraying their own country. Dambara Amila thero  should know better that Sarath Fonseka, whom  he proposes to be the Minister of Law and order is not  a democratic politician. He is a soldier still in uniform and law and order is not his immediate concern, but to take revenge from the former President and  his Defence Secretary for no valid reason .

Army Commander Sarath Fonseka was imprisoned by a  Court-Marshall, accused for allowing a Company set up by his son-in-law to profit from the sale of Bullets to the Army. There was also a talk about him having received several bundles of Dollar notes from an unknown source.

Therefore, it appears  Sarath Fonseka  is not entirely innocent of the accusations for which he was imprisoned. Further more Sarath Fonseka despite being  in the Parliament is still in mind and heart a soldier- as I read some where- he walks like a soldier , talks like a soldier and acts like soldier. Where therefore is his “talent” to be a Minister of Law and Order that Dambara Amila sees in him ?

Is Dambara Amila thero with the NGO clique,  in like company supporting Sarath Fonseka  to be the Minister of Law and Order or does it mean that Dambara Amila thero has still not grown up to understand  the gravity of  his spurious statements.

All these NGO activists have become President Maithripala Sirisena’s  close advisors. Three of them in a previous Derana TV debate “Aluth Parliamenthuwak” were dribbling profusely trying to defend the stand they propose the President to take against the massive support received by his opponent the former President Mahinda Rajapakse.

One can of course say that  the people voted to elect their representative to the Provincial Councils and therefore,  it has no bearing on the unity government- the Yahapalanaya.

The crowds at elections meetings do not indicate the popularity of  one party or another and that the crowds of people at any meeting  would vote for the candidates presented by that party.

But when the Government in place has failed to contribute to the welfare of the people or reduced the cost of living to allow them to live a comfortable life, how can the people show their disapproval ?

The only way  the people had,  was to attend in large numbers the meetings opposing the Yahapalanaya  Government, as there had been no elections to show their opposition to the government by their vote.

Hence,  in the case of this unpopular Yahapalanaya Government, when the people after three years of waiting, got the only chance of showing their opposition to the continuation of the Yahapalanaya  by casting their vote,  was at the Local government elections of the 10 February, 2018.  They did that by giving a massive vote for the candidates put forward by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna which opposed the Yahapalanaya Government.

Therefore,  the massive vote of the people should not be underestimated  by the  defeated political parties the UNP, the SLFP and the JVP , by playing with numbers and percentages to to show that the people’s vote was not against the Government , but only to elect their local representatives.

When  JVP won no local authority , SLFP has won  only 11 , TNA only 38 , the UNP only 42 and SLPP 249. They still without accepting the lower number of LGs they have won  go on arguing that the 249 LGs SLPP won are less than the actual number as 162 LGs will have problems electing a SLPP candidate as the Chairman, and those LGs may have to elect a Chairman from UNP, or SLFP. But that is an argument of fools,  as still the largest number of LGs have been won by the SLPP .

Therefore,  there is no doubt that the 10^th February,2018 vote of the people for LG elections was a vote by the people against the Government and the Government has no moral right any further to continue to be in place.

Both the President and the Prime Minister should therefore resign in the name of Democracy, if they still, respect it, and allow the people to elect another President and another Prime Minister.

That is the only thing to do if there is no provision in the Constitution for the President to dismiss the Prime Minister.