Independent Judiciary made it possible to make Parliament a Theatre.

  

The most ridiculous theatrical shows continue to be enacted within the once august  meeting place of the people’s representatives the Parliament. Can one call a Parliament is in session when there is only the opposition seated in their seats  with a theatrically attired speaker in Chair?

The Comedy Francaise has a great  classical, cultural value.

But the theatrical sessions of the Parliament of Sri Lanka being enacted these days with Karunasena Jayasuriya in Chair in his British theatrical costume, are neither classical, nor cultural,  but a pure display of hatred , vengeance, with sometime even criminal undertones,  calling the people to surround the house of Ministers and rebel against the Constitutionally formed government, which they say is non existent.

There is no functioning Parliament  in Sri Lanka today.  All those speeches  being made on the opposition side and their passing of No Confidence Motions, and legislations  in the absence of the Prime Minister and the Ministers and the representatives of the Government make the whole show a  mere mockery of  Parliamentary Sessions. Those speeches  have no right to be printed in Parliamentary Hansards and the regislations have no legal value.

It is the Judiciary that bungled in haste allowing the Parliament to continue its session until their verdict on the illegal opposition, as the Attorney General had informed the Judges,  to the Presidential decision to appoint a new Prime Minister and a new Government, and issuing  a gazette notification to dissolve the parliament to hold general  elections.

The law students are perhaps aware of mock trials in preparing them  for exams, where the students try to make the mock trials as real as far as possible. It is exactly that which is happening in the Sri Lanka Parliament now  which has been boycotted by the government as the opposition has made the Parliament   a show place  for rhetoric. They have all  become great politicians speaking lightly and without respect for persons and office.

In the meantime, the Government of Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse appointed by the President as the Prime Minister,  and his Cabinet of Ministers are working hard to re establish the disorder the country had been put into by three years of “non-rule” by the Yahapalanaya Government.  But the mock Parliament in session in the mean time try to put barriers before Prime Minister  Mahinda Rajapakse and his Government doing  their  best to give what ever relief they can to the people who had been put into financial difficulties, and help them continue their work for their lively hood, while  helping the farmers to plough their fields, despite the present difficulties being created by  the UNP and its allied partners.

The fear that both the UNP and its allied partners and the JVP dreaming to establish a  Marxist Government have  is that,  within a short time  the Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse and his Cabinet of Miniters may carry out an efficient refurbishment and bring back a little relief to the people which would put him in an advantageous position to face the coming General election.

Hence they are doing their damnedest possible against  the Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse and his Cabinet of Ministers from carrying out their work to put to right what had been done wrong by the Yahapalanaya government. The only way they can disable the Mahinda Rajapakse Government from working for the welfare of the people is by passing various legislations accepted as passed by the  Speaker of the House who it seems to have  momentarily gone insane.

Most hard hitting rhetoric comes from the Marxists of the JVP Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Bimal Ratnayake etc,  and  from Champika Ranawake who is hoping that by some chance the  post of the Opposition candidate for the next Presidential election may fall on his lap. 

The speeches of the Marxist JVP speakers  which lack  moral, religious or disciplined eloquence, may be a bad influence on the minds of the Sri Lanka youth who are already suffering from an unknown malaise which was highlighted recently from a group of youth videoing a young woman being strangled to death by  another without coming to the help of the victim.

However, the most virulent un Buddhist speeches attacking Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse and his cabinet  by a man in yellow robes Dambara Amila have been exposed as being made for a fee of Rupees  95000 per month paid by Littro gaz.

There is also the danger of the mock parliamentary sessions open to the view of the public, may contribute to endanger the morality of the  Sri Lankan Youth, as the speakers go unchallenged  and uncorrected with their indiscipline immoral speeches of hatred and vengeance against  their “enemy”  the Prime Minister and his Cabinet who are carrying  out their duties legitimately entrusted to them for the welfare of the country and the people.

People should take serious note of these self appointed saviours of democracy, and good governance from slowing down the Government of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse’s process of bringing back to normal the three years of bad Yahapalanaya governance, which had denied to the people  any relief from rampant cost of living through anti people taxes imposed by the Yahapalanaya Government.

The Yahapalanaya Government  which was being directed by the West holding before it the GPS  and other minor relief  to make Sri Lanka dependent on the West and agree to pass a new Constitution with a federal twist to give an Eelam State to the Tamils and make Sri Lanka a non religious state by removing any special consideration  for Buddhism as it had been done in previous Constitutions.

JVP is already asking that they be given the right to rule the country and  with that idea behind, it is carrying on a bitter campaign to make the Prime Minister  Mahinda Rajapakse and his Ministers unpopular amoung the people, and obstruct the work the Prime Minister and his Cabinet of Minister are doing to ameliorate the living conditions of the people. The mock sessions of the Parliament have stopped the Prime Minister and his Cabinet of Ministers have resort to funds for proceeding with their work,  by passing mock legislation.

As the Parliament is  presently  not functioning in its legal form, there is a question whether the mock legislation passed at the mock sessions of the Parliament have any legal value. 

One does not know what could be expected from the independent judiciary in this regard.

Would their  decisions make it still more difficult for the people to expect the Government led by the Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse carry on its work for the immediate betterment of the conditions of the people, or whether they would be again thrown back to the Yahapalanaya wolves now reduced to the UNP , TNA, and JVP ?

 

Legal Bungling and never ending Political Crisis.

In UK the English Judges give judgments which are human,  fair and just. They look beyond the law to render human and  people friendly judgements. Lord Denning’s judgments are classical and are often quoted to make legal opinions and even judgments more human. The law should be applied to  settle problems instead of creating problems unforeseen by the judges when  making their judgements.   In Sri Lanka the Judges it seems are bound by the law, legal terms, and meaning of the  letter of the law leaving aside the spirit of it. They are law book judges.

Todays political mess we find ourselves in Sri Lanka,  is the bungling of law book judges. The Attorney General had said precisely that the FR case filed had no reason to be received as the  actions of the President of Sri Lanka contested by the FR petitions had been in terms of the Constitution,  and in terms of the Constitutional rights vested in him. An interim judgement without taking into consideration the prevailing political situation seems an unprecedented happening that has put the whole country into an utter political  turmoil extending it  adversely to the  lives of the people .

The President Maithripala Sirisena has sworn in Mahinda Rajapakse as the new Prime Minister. But he has not been accepted as such by the Opposition the UNP and its allied political partners. But yet without accepting him as a Prime Minister in the first instance these opposition parties led by UNP and the JVP want  to pass a vote of no confidence on a  Prime Minister they have not still not accepted. That is a very unusual situation which has no fundamental  legal right to be sustained.

Because there should be  in the first instance a Prime Minister accepted as such for the opposition  to pass a vote of No Confidence. If there is no Prime Minister as they vociferously argue how can they then pass a vote of no confidence to a non existing Prime Minister ?

No one  except the opposition led by UNP demand to show a parliamentary majority. If the UNP, JVP,TNA and the rest of the parties of the opposition complain of the  absence of democracy in the actions taken by President Maithripala Sirisena, then they should themselves demonstrate that their own actions so far taken had been democratic.

If they are  democratic what they should do is to  accept the situation as presented in parliament with a  new Prime Minister and his cabinet of Ministers. Thereafter they should present to the Speaker of the Parliament a written notice of a No confidence motion to be passed against the Prime Minister and his Cabinet.

Then it would be a democratic presentation in due form  of  a no confidence motion in the Parliament for a debate, which would eventually  be put to a vote in the house. If they have a majority they may  pass the no confidence motion  against the Prime Minister and his Cabinet of Ministers.

That would solve  the present political crisis that had been created by a legal bungling in the first place and allow democracy to prevail to solve the serious political problem the country is faced with.

This is a proposition which should have been suggested by the Political Editor of the Sunday Times in his Column on the 8 November,2018, instead of his  statement highlighting the concerns of the Colombo’s diplomatic community and the Western Nations and many others over “Sirisena’s actions and decision”

The Political Editor says that their (diplomatic community and the Western Nations) “ major worry was what would happen to investments made by companies  in their countries in Sri Lanka. “ We wonder in that respect how many Companies of the West had made investments in Sri Lanka. 

The Political Editor  then adds”…….. . Another concern was both the constitutionality and legality of President Sirisena’s actions. This clearly laid bare a huge drawback. Neither the Presidential Secretariat nor any of the agencies of the new government were able to cohesively explain the reasons or the rationale behind most of Sirisena’s moves. This caused confusion not only in Sri Lanka but overseas too. ……” 

The west need not be concerned with the “…. constitutionality and legality of President Sirisena’s actions” as he-the President  had acted  according to the powers vested in him according to  the Constitution.  The President is not answerable to the  Colombo’s diplomatic Community or the West for that.

The President of Sri Lanka had acted according to the Constitution and democratically even though the political parties opposed to him led by UNP is accusing the President, as their interests have been affected.

The Political Editor of the Sunday Times correctly says, “….On the other hand, the UNP’s effective publicity campaign, unmatched by any other, won it the eyes and ears of not only Sri Lankans but also the outside world. That has turned Sirisena into a villain without a defence.”

Hence the adverse situation coming from the Western Diplomats and their countries  has been caused by the puppet politicians of the west-the UNP which had “turned Sirisena into a villain without a defence. ”

Neither the President Sirisena nor his newly sworn in Prime Minster and his Cabinet are really not concerned with the adverse situation  caused by UNP’s betrayel of the country to the West as it is not the opinion of the Western diplomats and their countries  that matter to find a solution to the present political problem but  it is the people of  our own country- the SRI LANKANS. 

That is why there should be a General Election to solves the present political situation, which had to be put off due to a legal bungling.

International Community please keep away. Ex PM was neither sacked nor dismissed, he became redundant when Cabinet ceased to exist.

What a furore there is amoung UNP supporters in Sri Lanka, and Foreign Governments  supporting the puppet regime of Ranil Wickramasinghe ,  since a number of members from his Cabinet of Ministers refused  to work for him any more in a National Government,  resulting in  the Cabinet ceasing to exist?

That was not by all means the end of the world,  nor the end of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

But what we the Sri Lankans do not understand is why the so called  International Community- the USA, Norway, Switzerland , France, Germany, Italy ,Netherlands, Roumania and UK are interfering  demanding the President to show a majority in Parliament. That is not their business. 

They say that it would damage Sri Lanka’s international reputation  and deter investors. But can these countries say how they helped Sri Lanka during the past three years and how many investors came from  amoung the countries of the West ?

Of course,  they of the International Community are always there to create trouble in developing countries , cast barriers, impose trade embargoes, stop GPS and purchase of fish, even kill political leaders as they did those day when the CIA was active,  but they are never there to help by making  investments  or providing technology.

It is surprising that Australia and Canada too jump into the band wagon to warn Sri Lanka of serious  consequences. But how about the neglected first Citizens of Canada and Maories of Australia. Why don’t they look after them instead of worrying about Sri Lanka ?

As for Canada tagging behind  its MP for Scarborough-RougePark which is far away from Sri Lanka and Thanigasalam MPP who is both physically and mentally far away from the Tamils of Sri Lanka, it is better that Thanigasalam is told that the Tamils in Sri Lanka  are left alone without mixing them up with the Canadian Tamils. Because Tamils here will not be  Tamils without Sri Lanka . Those Tamils  too Sri Lanka can manage without being interfered by far away Canada and still far away Thanigasalam and Scarborough.

Sri Lankans are well educated; they have a good Armed Force, they are  growing up in a very peaceful culture,  and they are a people of a generous heart. Sri Lankans-that include the Tamils have nothing to learn from Scarborough, Ontario or Canada least of all from Thanigasalam MP, nor from France, Germany, Italy, US, Roumania , Netherlands, Switzerland and all the rest as a matter of fact.

The so called International Community  are only interferers who do not want to help poor countries  develop and progress. Their World Bank and IMF give  loans  to condition our development  they  want it to be, and put us into their net of debt , to make us  remain poor,  and be  of  political and strategic importance to the International Community.

Therefore, International community if you can help us develop our country  you are welcome , but if you come to tell us what we should do and not do you are not welcome. In that case please keep away, as we both have nothing to gain or nothing to loose by being with one  another  in poverty or prosperity..

Now the International Community now lets turn to your problem about your interfering into Sri Lanka to defend  your puppet Ranil Wickramasinghe you raised into being the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. You are now  demanding the Parliament of Sri Lanka to have the sittings on the 14^th November to show a majority for the newly sworn in most popular Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse, firstly please take note that it is not your business.  Secondly believe us  there is nothing for you to worry;  Sri Lanka can settle the matter without your demands, threats and warnings.

There was nothing un- Constitutional about  your puppet Ranil Wickramasinghe loosing the office of Prime Minister. Read on and you may understand if you cut your bias and try to understand what really happened.

What really happened was simple. In 2015 there was a Presidential election  in which many political parties opposing the  popular President of Sri Lanka  Mahinda Rajapakse formed a union called the UNF to put forward their Common Presidential Candidate Mr. Maithreepala Sirisena .

The Foreign Governments  the USA, UK, France, Germany, U.E and  our neighbour India-which has a problem since India has a tradition of Rajaas –Kings. Hence the political leaders of India have a complex  to  tread the soil of the rich and well to do, hence rather than be with the  Communist China, it prefers to be with the Capitalist America ! So all these foreign States  helped the common Candidate of the Opposition  Mr. Maithreepala Sirisena to defeat the President Mahinda Rajapakse and win the election.

Hence the Common Candidate  Maithripala Sirisena won the Presidential election and formed an initial Government of 100 days on the 8^th January,2015 until the next General Election in August,2015.  The General election  to elect Parliamentary candidates did not give a clear majority to any leading party to form a government of its own.

Hence the UNF the union of political parties who had put forward a common candidate for the Presidential election, and the members of the union of political parties the UPFA that had gathered around the new President Maithripala Sirisena  agreed to unite to form a National Government. In terms of the Constitution such a united National Government could have more than 30 members in the Cabinet. Therefore the National Government  the UNF and UPFA  which they called the Yahapalanaya Government had altogether a Cabinet of 45 Ministers.

From the beginning the  Yahapalanaya Government had conflicts within, many of the UPFA Ministers complaining  that the UNF Ministers are more priviledged  and those of the UPFA were neglected  when  taking Cabinet decisions. These differences came to a head  when the Joint Opposition brought a No Confidence Motion against the Prime Minister Ranil.Wickramasinghe.

16 members of the Yahapalanaya Government voted in favour of the NCM and  left the government to  join the Joint opposition.The Yahapalanaya yet managed to navigate as they still had a respectable numbers of Minister from both ranks-UNF and UPFA.  But the situation changed on the 26 October, 2018 when the remaining members of the UPFA wrote a letter to the Speaker of the Parliament stating that they are withdrawing from the Yahapalanaya National Government.

Therefore in terms of the relevant article of the Constitution the Cabinet of the Yahapalanaya National Government  could not exist with the other UPFA members of the Cabinet leaving it. 

Therefore the  Cabinet of the Yahapalanaya Government ceasing to exist as a whole became dissolved and the Prime Minister became redundant or no longer needed  as the Office of Prime Minister became dissolved in the absence of a UNF and UPFA joint Cabinet.

But Ranil Wickramasinghe who did not interpret the Constitution correctly and knowing that,  that was the only chance he would have  to lead  a UNP Government,  holed himself in the Temple Trees the Official Residence of the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka along with his politically blinded  supporters and  appealed to the Western Countries  to come and help him as he is  still the Prime Minister with a majority in the Parliament, and that the President of Sri Lanka had undemocratically appointed another as the new Prime Minister.

That was the SOS on which the International Community  jumped into Sri Lanka like  a “ bull in a glass shop” and make all sorts of undiplomatic demands from a President elected by the People of Sri  Lanka a Sovereign State., which is blatant interference into the internal affairs of  Sri Labnka a Sovereign State.

The President did not have to dismiss Ranil  Wickramasinghe from the Office of Prime Minister  as he got automatically “dismissed “ with the breaking up of the Cabinet. The President subsequently  appointed a new Prime Minister.

The President’s appointment of the new Prime Minister  is within the powers vested in him in the Constitution of Sri Lanka and that cannot be contested by any one,  least of all by the Speaker who is expected to be politically independent or the International Community  which has no right what so ever to interfere into internal affaires of the Sovereign State of Sri Lanka.

RanilW is an MP, not an elected Prime Minister to challenge the President.

Maithreepala Sirisena was elected  as the President of Sri Lanka  by the people of Sri Lanka. Ranil Wickramasinghe was elected a member of Parliament from Colombo by the supporters of his political party-UNP.

The President of Sri Lanka  appointed  Ranil Wickramasinghe, who in  opinion of the President was the Member of the Parliament  who ( at that time in August,2015),  commanded the confidence of the majority in the Parliament.  It is understood that according to the Constitution  that the Prime Minister would continue to hold office as long as he Ranil Wickramasinghe is in the opinion of the President of Sri Lanka continues to command the confidence of the majority in Parliament.

In consequence the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe cannot challenge the President , if the President due to any changed  circumstances appoints another Prime Minister to replace him.

Since the 26 October,2018, the Temple Trees is occupied by the ex Prime Minister , claiming without any proof by an order issued by the Supreme to the contrary, that he is still the Prime Minister.

The Temple Trees  is a public property and the taxpayers have the right to ask why no action has been taken to evict Ranil Wickramasinghe  from the Temple Trees. 

Ranil W-MP,   may  claim in defence that he had been  removed illegally from office and that he as the former Prime Minister has the right to remain in the Temple Trees, until the New Prime Minister Mr.Mahinda Rajapakse sworn in by the President shows a majority in the Parliament.

But Ranil W- MP,  was not removed by the President, but he lost his position as Prime Minister due to some members leaving  the Cabinet.

Ranil Wickramasinghe MP, cannot claim that he is still the Prime Minister and the President swore in a new Prime Minister illegally,  as it is the right of the President of Sri Lanka Maithreepala Sirisena to take a decision when circumstances change, and it becomes necessary to appoint another Prime Minister.  It is then normal that the President would in terms of the Constitution swear in a person who in his opinion commands the confidence of a majority in the Parliament as his New Prime Minister

But if RanilW-MP, believes that he has  a majority in the Parliament, then it is for him to go to the Supreme Court and ask for an opinion about his  right to be in office and therefore to continue to reside at the Temple Trees.

The President of Sri Lanka need not  go to courts on the issue as he had been elected by the people of the country, and he has the right to act in terms of the Constitution-  acting where necessary  on legal opinion.

The Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinge was not elected by the people, but was  only sworn in by the President as it was his opinion that at the time of swearing him in as the Prime Minister  he could command the confidence of a majority in the Parliament.

Situation has now changed and the President Maithreepala Sirisena has sworn in a new Prime Minister a member of the Parliament  who in his opinion commands the confidence of a majority in the Parliament.

It is the President’s opinion which is  necessary in terms of the Constitution and  not the necessity for  the new Prime Minister to show a majority in the parliament. The deposed Prime Minister has no right to question the new Prime Minister to show a majority in the Parliament. It is for him to show the contrary by taking a decision of the Supreme Court.

Therefore, when Ranil W –MP  lost his position of Prime Minister when the cabinet became dissolved by a number of Ministers leaving the Cabinet. Ranil W-MP has  no legal right to oppose the decision of the President of Sri Lanka.

If he  claims that he  did not loose the Office of  the Prime Minister, when a number of Cabinet Members left the Cabinet,   then he has to prove  that despite some members leaving the Cabinet he is still the Prime Minister by getting an opinion  from  the Supreme Court.

Until then he has  no right to remain in the Temple Trees. The Office of the Prime Minister Rajapakse  should serve a notice on  Ramil Wickramasinghe demanding him  to vacate the Temple Trees immediately.

If not the Government has the right to deploy the Police Force and even the Armed Forces if necessary to remove Ranil Wickramasinghe  whois illegally  occupying theTemple Trees. The Government should claim from Ranil Wickramasinghe compensation for the period he had remained in the Temple Trees.

Ranil Wickramasinghe has a problem growing up, trying to remain forever in the safety of childhood ?

Every day children are born most of them, unless they are born mentally handicapped, grow to be matured men or women experiencing the simple duality of life –the good and the bad. When we are babies and children we think that all solutions can be solved by crying and yelling at parents and others that pass by making them understand  by gesticulation or crying loud for what we want. 

But  that way of satisfying our demands ends as we grow up learning from teachers , books, thinking and reflecting,  how to live , what we expect from life. Then we learn by experiencing through human relationships how to react to what we think is good or what we think is bad. It was easy with our parents we can be peaceful or aggressive with them and their reactions would be mild or manageably harsh .

But later on   our relations with those  outside our homes are unpredictable they may some times be enriching experiences, or dangerous  experiences which  may even cost our lives. Life is a constant learning experience.  It is that which  makes us wise or foolish.

In our selected professions too we have to learn to adopt ourselves  to situations , be it may be as a teacher, as a doctor, as a lawyer, as a labourer or as a politician.  If we do not  adopt ourselves correctly then we may not be successful in our chosen profession.

In Sri Lanka  after 70 years of Independence we have our own politicians, parliamentarians. Have they adopted themselves  as good politicians or parliamentarians ? Most of  the parliamentarians in Sri Lanka are lawyers, doctors, or simply men with experience in dealing with people  to solve their social or economic problems.

If some citizens not satisfied with what is taking place as they are not happening for their personal benefits  take arms to fight against the antagonists and try to wrench from them what they need, they become terrorists and their  antagonists may then  take arms to stop them and eliminate them.

If the politicians and parliamentarians act in like manner  they will also be terrorists and the government may take appropriate action as those taken against the terrorist.

But do we expect Parliamentarians act like terrorists ? No .

Why ?

Because we do not expect such behaviour from them as they are experienced men and know how to act wisely and patiently, with people of different ideas, beliefs and cultures. They are not children who cry and yell  demanding what they want, but act peacefully using common sense and using their experience in their human relations as politicians who stand for the interest of the country and its people with different political views and expectations.

As we grow up we should  learn to see  reality through maturity of  thoughts interacting with men and matters  and stand by those realities  rather than vacillate unable like children to decide what to do or wher to go. See for instance an experienced politicians who was many times the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka  and the leader of the UNP for over 20 years,  a lawyer, who lost 30 elections still  unable to face defeat as a man,  and unable to take a decision on his own.   He cannot accept to be told that he is no more the Prime Minister. 

What then is such a  man  who cannot accept eight worldly conditions (asta loka damma) gain and loss (labo-alabo), grace  and disgrace (ayaso-yasoca) insults and praise(ninda –presansa),  enjoyment and suffering (sapanci  – dukkham), if not he is not  a wise man and has still learnt nothing of life. 

It is now evident that  Ranil Wickramsinghe has no existence of his own. He  depends on others. As the Prime Minister he depended on Paskaralingams and Charitha Ratwattes, foreign NGOs and lots of yes men who are after their own benefits.  Now holed up in Temple Trees Ranil Wickramasinghe ex Prime Minister  depends  on friend  Karu Jayasuriya-an indecisive vacillator, foreign journalists, embassies, of USA,UK,Germany,France and European Union.  These are his life support of existence as a rebel ex-Prime Minister.  He tells them the possibilities of street fights, he has stressed that  one does not know what arises in a situation like this . A few desperate people he tells them, can start off a blood bath.

Ranil Wickramasinghe  is insinuating  before   the foreign embassadors  a calamitous situation and indirectly requests them to be on guard to defend Sri Lanka and perhaps be ready with  an army contingent. He had already written to these embassies  requesting them to demand  the   UN to be in readiness to send  a UN peace keeping force. (http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2018/10/31/call-for-ranil-to-be-indicted-for-high-treason/)

Doesn’t this show that Ranil Wickramasinghe has not reached mental maturity, but  instead descending  to the childhood level of  having fear  and yelling for security ?  Unfortunately he seems to have suddenly found himself in a kindergarten class with all his political companions, Karu Jayasuriya, Harin Fernando, Ajith Perera, Ravi Karunanayake, Harsha de Silva, Rajitha Senarathana, Mangala Samaraweera, Majuba Rhaman  and even Gomin Dayasiri in the same class.

A lollipop for a crying and yelling child is what money does to young growing up politician  give them a bundle of money they immediately  become manageable by the one who provides him with the toy bundle. Manusha Nanayakkara found it was more democratic to join the Government of  Prime Minister Rajapakse sworn in by the President and in the morning he took oath before the President to be a Minister in the Cabinet of the new Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse. And in the evening he comes back to Ranil Wickramasinghe  the ex Prime Minister and says he made a mistake  about understanding democracy and says democracy is besides  Ranil Wickramasinghe.

Sampanthan and other TNA Parliamentarians refuse to grow up and remain eternal children.

Strangely though even the foreign Ambassadors have a problem growing up. The new Ambassador of US Alaina Teplitz, true to their nature of destabilising the governments of developing countries , goes to the former Prime Minister crying over his lost jobn trying to sympathise with his plight and give some hope that he still has Ambassadors coming to tap on his back.

But yet there are wise men even when they are old- Lord Michael Naseby at 82 years  who had once been a Deputy Speaker of the House of Parliament, who  is wise and refuses to be a child.

Lord Michael Naseby  has warned the UK Parliamentarians that it is not their role to interfere in to internal affairs of Sri Lanka and says that he is fully aware that all actions taken so far  by the President of Sri Lanka are Constitutional. He says that Sri Lankans  should be allowed to settle their own problems without foreign intervention and that he has met the President of Sri Lanka several times and that he is a wise man.

How come Mahinda Rajapakse is Prime Minister ?

a peoples' man

 It is so confusing reading the Constitution with Articles, 42,44,46,48 with  sub-articles  1,2 etc. Therefore of all the numbers let us take only the number 19 and try to understand what happened on the 26 October, 2018.

According to number 19  Sri Lanka cannot have more than 30 Ministers in a National  Cabinet, unless two or more  political parties agreed to unite to form one National Government.

In August,2015 in terms of number 19, the  Yahapalanaya Government  was set up as a National Coalition government with the UNF and UPFA signing an agreement to form a coalition.  They could therefore under number 19, have a Cabinet of more than 30 Ministers, Thus  they had a Yahapalanaya government with  a Cabinet of 40 Ministers.

Hence the rule was the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe could function in that office  as the Prime Minister of the Coalition as long as the coalition lasts.

But on the 26^th October,2018 the situation changed with the UPFA the other partner to the Coalition  of the Yahapalanaya Government sent a letter to the Speaker to say that they have left the Yahapalanaya Government  as its Coalition Partner.

Therefore, the Coalition government was left  with only one party to it,  with the Cabinet of Ministers reduced by that number that left the Coalition. Hence  the Yahapalanaya did not exist anymore as a coalition. In that changed situation under the  now famous number 19,  Ranil Wickrmasinghe  lost his office as the Prime Minister and the government “became” desolved.

Therefore, the President Maithripala Sirisena taking into account the changed  situation vis à vis the  Yahapalnaya government, finding the country without a Prime Minister and therefore a government , called upon Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse MP from Kurunagala ,  who in his opinion is able to have the confidence of the Members of the Parliament to form a Government under number 19,  and swore him in as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka replacing Ranil Wickramasinghe who was disposed of from that office under the same number 19.

Furthermore, it is important to note  that there is no requirement under the  Constitution of Sri Lanka for  a Prime Minister sworn in by the President to  show a majority in the Parliament. This is a demand made by the mentally ill, now  disposed Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe  and his equally crazy supporters who want to remain in political power.

Also the President can prorogue the parliament and recall parliament at his will. There is nothing against it in the Constitution and the  number 19.

That I think is as simple as that.