Since then
he had been acting as a fool taking second place to Ranil Wickramasinghe the
leader of the UNP whom he appointed
unconstitutionally as the Prime Minister,
to show his gratitude for his having picked him up to put him on the
Presidential Chair.
He is a
fool to have left the SLFP and President
Mahinda Rajapakse even if he were to say that Mahinda Rajapakse was a difficult man to work with. Because if
MahindaR was as difficult as that, it was because had reason to be so. Firstly
he was new as the President and secondly
he had so many unsolved, problems of his predecessors and terrorism to
deal with before any thing else. He had to trust every one around him and those
in his cabinet. In doing so he may have allowed abuses by his Ministers and
others , as in the face of terrorism he had to keep together even a disorderly
groups sitting around him.
Fortunately,
he had a brother who he could trust to the
hilt, to be put in charge of solving the
problem with the terrorists. He may have also trusted his Cabinet of Ministers
and more so his Minister of Health Maithripala Sirisena, who was also the
Secretary of the SLFP of which Mahinda R was the President. But Sirisena proved
himself to be a dishonest fool.
Therefore, isn’t
there a question for us to pose
whether Maithripala Sirisena the
President we have is a fool, when we saw
him leaving the most successful President Sri Lanka ever had, who eliminated terrorism and develop the country to be a
modern sovereign State, and if he had been still in power he would have made
Sri Lanka not second to most of the developed
countries of the world ?
And for
what did this foolish man Maithriplala Sirisena allowed himself to be lured by
a angry hateful foolish woman, and Ranil Wickramasinghe who had lost nearly 30
elections , and was sitting aside fearing to contest a Parliamentary election
lest he would fail again.
Maithripala
Sirisena when he was still with Mahinda R would have known that RanilW will not
make a trustworthy Prime Minister, having seen how he turned his back to both
the President Chandrika K ,and the Parliament to betray the country by signing a CFA with the terrorist Prabhakaran when he
was the Prime Minister of President
Chandrika K’s government ?
How strange
that this man Maithreepala Sirisena trusted the UNP leader, who was not unknown
to him for what he had been accused of in the Batalanda Commission Report, and
subsequent raid of the Army Safe House in Aturugiriya millennium
City ?
Maithreepala
Sirisena deceived the SLFP and its President, and also the SLFP voters who
elected him to the Parliament.
All that
for what ?
Was it
to become a name plate President, with his Prime Minister deciding on every
thing affecting the country, such as taking over the Ministry in Charge of Banks from the Finance Minister,
appointing a citizen of Singapore Arjun
Mahendran as the Governor of the Central Bank and helping him steal the bank through
issue of Bonds , negotiating an ECTA
with India, and seeing the growing
opposition of the people against it changing the tactics by turning
his back to the Parliament as he did with the CFA, to sign a Trade Agreement
with Singapore ?
What
does the President know about the Trade Agreement of 1500pages issued only in English signed by his Prime Minister with
Singapore ,
which even the Prime Minister himself had not
the time to read when he signed it ?
This
Trade Agreement with Singapore
is for all purposes the same as the
proposed ECTA with India . If there is a difference it is only in the
transport of material and services and personnel from India to Singapore
and then from Singapore to Sri Lanka using the Agreement Singapore has with India
and now with Sri Lanka .
Maithripala
Sirisena having come to the opposition and being elected as the President, should have had the guts to tell his Prime Minister RanilW to do nothing without telling him, and
to stop the Prime Minister taking decisions on his own, which have now resulted in a fast track to bankruptcy.
These acts
of the Prime Minister since Maithripala Sirisena was
elected President of Sri Lanka on the 8th January,2015, were
each a slap on the face of the President . The only possibility left with the President MaithripalaS is to appoint a
Commission when the news papers report
them, and the opposition begins to clamour.
If
Maithripala Sirisena as the President had
atleast a peanut size brain he should have told Ranil W when he was
appointing him as his Prime Minister to
continue Mahinda Chintanaya until they are able to start there own plans for
the future development of the country.
Of course when he left SLFP he may not have expected the Presidency of
the Party to have been thrust upon him.
Mahinda R, had to do it as by then the ambitious senior SLFPs Sarath Amunugama,
Mahinda Samarasinghe, Rajitha Senaratne etc. were already creeping to stand by
the newly elected President.
But
those SLFP seniors were unable to give the new President the strength to stand on his own and say “no”
loud and clear to RanilW’s fanatism to
erode the Sovereignty of Sri
Lanka . A wise President would not have
allowed the Prime Minister to propose the leader of the TNA as the leader of
the opposition. He should not have allowed
the Prime Minister to propose
Karu Jayasuriya to be the speaker, Mangala Samaraweera to the Foreign Ministry and Ravi
Karunanayake to the Minister of Finance. Maithripala Sirisena when he was with Mahinda
Rajapakse knew all about these miscreants.
The UNP is
continuing its disastrous trajectory for the destruction of Sri Lanka of which
Maithripala Sirisena became the Ptesident on the 8th
January,2015.But this foolish President still holding onto the now dilapidated Yahapalanaya,
continues to allow his Prime Minister to do what he wants , while he is satisfied making speeches and calling for hangmen to
hang the drug dealers.
The latest
is that the Yahapalanaya is planning to give thousands of hectares of land from
Badulla,Monaragala and Ambara to a US Based multinational company to cultivate
sugarcane (CeylonToday of 17/08/2018)
This is the
worst that this Yahapalanaya Government would be doing to Sri Lanka by giving land to grow sugar cane to a US Base
multinational, as it is well known with various types of US multinationals
Companies the US
had turned developing countries into
miserable Bananna States depending on the whims and fancies of these
companies. Further sugar plantations are a crop destructive to
the soil and it should be stopped at any cost as it is not suitable to an agrarian society like ours.
The foolish
President will only wake up when things have gone too far and the only
alternative he would have then would be to appoint a Commission and forget about it there after. How many
Commissions has this President appointed and has he taken action on the
Commission reports ?
While
the President Sirisena makes speeches and travel abroad, his Prime
Minister is doing lot of damage to Sinhala Buddhists. He goes round saying that
there is no people called Sinhala as they are a mixture including seafaring
sailors, and the sea merchants. He also said at a ceremony at Church of Madhu
that Sri Lanka
should be a multi-religious country as that is the means to reconcile with the
Tamils. Of course the President may not have still read about it in the papers ,
or may have thought a comment unnecessary.
The
President has placed great trust in his NGO supporters and readily accepts their advice. An observant President
would have taken into account hat his Yahapalanaya government has done nothing
substantial during the last three year
period, of which it can be proud. They have only pushed the country into a deeper
debt trap than that they had when they
took over the government on the 8th January,2015.
If the
President Sirisena can depend on whatever
wisdom he still has, he may at least now think seriously of forgetting
his false pride to come to an arrangement
with President Mahinda Rajapakse to
govern the country together.