On the 16
November, 2019, the most disastrous, and the worst of all political regime Sri Lanka
It
proved once again that it is the Sinhala who stand up to defend
the country when ever it is in danger. The mass of the Sinhala people may be
divided, but to defend the country
against its enemies they will shed their
differences to unite as one .
Today Venerable Elle Gunavansa Maha Thero made a resounding
speech to flount the greatness of the yellow robe for this surge of the Sinhala
Buddhist revival against the enemies of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
After the 8th January,2015 the Sinhala
people was mislead to vote fore for a political change to defeat President
Mahinda Rajhapakse, who had wrenched Sri Lanka from the grip of terrorism
, developed the country, brought peace
and security ,and put it back on the path to progress and development. Mahinda
Rajapakse by far the greatest political leader the country saw after independence, and his supportive political leaders
were abandoned and left to suffer all
ignominies. President Mahinda Rajapakse there after handed over the leadership
of SLFP to Maithripala Sirisena who was responsible for the after math of 8th January,2015.
There was
hope that President Mahinda Rajapakse may yet be able to form a government after the General Elections held in
August,2015. But the President Maithripala Sirisena who turned out to be his
bitter enemy, swore to stop him from
becoming the Prime Minister even if he were to be elected with a majority
from what remained of the UPFA.
At the end
President Mahinda Rajapakse and the UPFA
Parliamentary Group was refused
even to be the Parliamentary
opposition by the Speaker of the Parliament Karu Jayasuriya- a blind follower
of the UNP leader Ranil Wickramasinghe, with a subordinate mind set, without
the ability to take a decision of his
own
Karu
Jayasuriya who brought disrespect to the
Office of Speaker of the Parliament ( is even today despite the defeat of the UNP and the triumph of
Gotabhaya Rajapakse as the President,
occupies the seat of the Speaker, like a
mongrel not eating the straw yet sits on
it without allowing the cattle to
consume it ), recognised the Tamil National Alliance with only 16 MPs as the official
Parliamentary Opposition and made Sampanthan the leader of the Opposition,
leaving out the group of 54 parliamentarians led by Mahinda Rajapakse.
President
Mahinda Rajapakse and his Group of
Parliamentarians , sat in the Parliament as the joint Opposition . They were
denied every right in the Parliament
with TNA,JVP and UNF taking over the control
of it . JVP along with the UNP initiated accusations and filing charges against Mahinda Rajapakse , members of his government,
his Supporters and even his family members for
bribery and corruption . A new
Police Force- the FCID was set up
under Ranil Wickramasinghe the Prime Minister, which began a period of arresting, imprisoning ,
and harassing in every way possible the members of the Joint Opposition and
their friends and families.
It was
when the country and the former President Mahinda Rajapakse, his brother
Gotabhaya Rajapakse and all his supporters , his family memebers were
helplessly facing the sudden unexpected
tyranny of a vengeful Sirisena –Ranil Government,
that Basil Rajapakse, Mahinda Rajapakse’s youngest brother came into the scene. He was the brain that sustained and gave hope to Rajapaksas and the Joint
Oppostion. He was the organizer , the
brain behind the solution to rescues the Joint Opposition from the wreckage. He
worked behind scene without seeking to
out shine his elder brothers.
Sri Lanka
Podujana Peramuna was the result of
Basil Rajapakse ‘s genius. He launched
it in 2016 as a political refuge to the “ship wrecked” Joint Opposition. It
came at a time when there was a genuine grievance of the people calling for a new political party to replace
SLFP, which by joining with the UNP to form a Yahapalanaya Government, had
breached the very foundation on which SWRD Banadaranaike broke away from the
UNP to form a political party of the people.
The popular
demand of the people who had by then realised that they had made a mistake on
the 8th January,2015 in
voting Maithripala Sirisena to be the President for a change, was now
calling out for a new political party
led by Mahinda Rajapakse.
Basil
Rajapakse is meticulous, organised, and
visionary and knew how exactly he could organise a political party to defy the
SLFP and the UNP, now grouped together
as the Yahapalanaya. The first challenge came in February,2018,
when the Yahapalanaya under political pressure called for local government
elections, which it had kept on postponing under one pretext or another, being
aware of the unpopularity of the Yahapalanaya Government with already
accumulated scandals, accusations of
theft, bribery and corruption, the arrogance of the President and the Prime
Minister,. One of the Ministers , even dared to sponser in Geneva
-UNURC , a resolutiuon brought by the USA
against Sri Lanka
The
Yahapalanaya Government faced the local government election using to the
maximum its state machinery, spreading false accusations against the Joint
Opposition.
Basil
Rajapakse with an unbelievable faith in
himself, organised the local elections campaign,
presenting candidates from Sri Lanka
Podujana Peramuna, and brought a resounding victory.. It was unbelievable that
a political party- Sri Lanka Podujana
Peramun in just two years after it was launched, became so popular and lead the local election results by 40 percent of votes, while the UNP the oldest
political party got 29 percent of the votes, and the SLFP only 12 percent of the votes.
That was
the organising genius of Basil Rajapakse. Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna had the Lotus Bud- an appropriate symbol of
identity. It caught the admiration of the people who drowned it in a
deluge of mass popularity .At the
Presidential elections of 2019 the Presidential candidate Gotabaya
Rajapaksa won with the Lotus Bud symbol. It was far better than it would have
been if the Presidential Candidate was
to have been represented by the symbol of a Chair as it was proposed by the
SLFP, which was trying a come back after the loss of its popularity at the
Local Government polls.
Perhaps
it is better that the Lotus Bud popularly called the Pohottuva ,be the
electoral symbol for all future
elections contested by the Sri
Lanka Podujana Peramuna and its allied Parties in a common font.
The victory of Gotabaya Rajapaksha we hail
today was the contribution of the genius
of Basil Rajapakse. The Lotus Bud –-
Pohottuva of Basil Rajapakse has not only made it possible to vanquish a
detested enemy- the UNP and its allied political partners, but also brough hope and expectations with a
a new President who has already won the hearts of all , even perhaps some of
the Tamils and the Muslims who did not vote for him.
After the
defeat, of President Mahinda Rajapakse
on the 8 January,2015, Basil Rajapakse
who left to America Sri Lanka
The founder
of Sri Lanka Podujana Reramuna Basil
Rajapakse is responsible for saving Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Therefore
we pay this tribute to this humble man Basil Rajapakse who remains behind
scene, to keep the boats of political progress sail in safety in untroubled
waters of political stability.
