The 13th
November, 2018 the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, against the advice of the Attorney General,
issuing a stay order for the dissolution
of Parliament and calling for General elections by the President of Sri Lanka
was the darkest day of Sri Lanka’s 2600 years old history. Because that Supreme Courts stay order deprived
the people, who had suffered
economically, socially and culturally for three and a half years, the only occasion they had to change the most repressive government there ever was in Sri
Lanka dominated by Ranil Wickramasinghe
and his UNP, supported by the Tamil National Alliance and Janatha Vimukthi
Peramuna.
If the Supreme Court had not contributed to the disaster that followed their unwise decision, there would have been a General Election on the 5th January,2019 and the people would have got rid of a repressive government and replaced it with a government of their’ choice.
That would have avoided the Ranil Wickramasinghe- Sumandiran Government preparing a new Constitution and forcing it to be passed in parliament to drive the final nail in the coffin, (where the 2600 year old Sri Lanka with its Buddhist culture that nurtured a nation, with Theravada Buddhism- a beacon of light that could save the world from falling into a dark age of human suffering, repression, crime and savagery), which would be laid to rest.
With the end of
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna would be the lackeys of the Capitalist UNP in the south making the people slaves living on the crumbs falling from the tables of these political criminals.
The Supreme Court should not have issued the interim order Staying the Gazette Notification for the dissolution of the Parliament, as President Sirisena had acted in good faith in the interest of the country and the people. The President’s intention was to find relief for the people from a repressive Government led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe who had politically disabled the President with the introduction of the 19 th Amendment.
The Prime Minister Ranil W is a double faced hypocrite, who duped the President right from the beginning robbing the Central Bank, signing contracts with other countries without any prior consultation with the President or the Parliament. Ranil Wickramasinghe had the 19th Amendment to the Constitution prepared by his Western allies who had couched it in terms hiding the true effect of the amendment. Thereafter it was convenient for Ranil W the Prime Minister to usurp the powers of the President for himself.
In this great betrayal of the people by the Ranil Wickramasinghe on the 26th October, 2018, when he was Constitutionally removed from the office of Prime Minister, he illegally occupied the Temple Trees housing it with all his local thugs and foreign supporters and rebelled against the President.
President Sirisena who had had enough of his misdeeds had been waiting for a chance to rid of him. The chance came when the UPFA faction of the Yahapalanaya informed the Speaker that it was leaving the coalition. Hence, with the split of the Yahapalanaya Cabinet, the Prime Minister according to the relevant Article of the Constitution lost his office of Prime Minister.
It was then that the President Sirisena called Mahinda Rajappakse- against whom he played the key role to defeat him at the Presidential Elections in January,2015, to take over the Office of Prime Minister, as he knew Mahinda Rajapakse was nevertheless an honest and a capable man to save the country from the precipice of disaster Ranil Wickramasinhghe was trying to roll it over.
Everything had been in order according to the Constitution. But these facts had been ignored by the wise judges of the Supreme Court, when they examined the 13 FR applications against the gazette notification issued by the Presidents for the dissolution of Parliament and call for General Elections.
The People who had suffered for three and a half years under the heavy economic burdens put upon them by the Yahapalanaya Government came out spontaneously to rejoice the change and Mahinda Rajapakse they loved being appointed as the Prime Minister.
Under these circumstances one cannot still understand how it was that the Supreme Court ignored the Article 33 of the Constitution, as against Article 70. The 19th Amendment had not removed it, or those who drafted the 19the Amendment did not see the importance of the article 33 ( or simply forgot to remove it), therefore the Article 33 remains legally in force to mitigate the effect of the article 70 which rules out the dissolution of the Parliament for four and a half years, which is against all democratic parliamentary norms.
Hence the President Sirisena in using Article 33 as an emergency exit after having removed the Prime Minister to dissolve the Parliament and call for a General election was acting legally and within his Constitutional right. That was why even the Attorney General correctly advised the Supreme Court to reject the 13 FR applications against the Presidents dissolution of the Parliament and calling of elections as unacceptable.
These are some of the reasons why even the people begin to question whether, as much as Ranil Wickramasinghe, his UNP and its allies, the TNA and the JVP were partners in this great betrayal to deny the people their democratic right of electing a new set of Parliamentarians at a General election, whether the Supreme Court too had a hand in it, in issuing an interim order against the dissolution of Parliament by the President as illegal.
The courts take shelter under legal immunity and independence , to allow the country to be destroyed by a government acting bereft of patriotism, proved to have other interests than the welfare of the people. The courts should be independent of the executive and the legislature but not independent from the people.
That is why the appeal court order which stopped the Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse and his Cabinet of Ministers from functioning on the ground explained in confusing verbiage, that they are irresponsible and they cannot be trusted to take irrevocable decisions, is not comprehensible.
Were the judges really acting on their own or were they being influenced by unknown “Divine” forces to make them understand that Mahinda Rajapakse is an irresponsible politician despite his saving the country from ruthless terrorism, and that he cannot be trusted governing as Prime Minister despite his having been the President of Sri Lanka twice and remains loved and respected by a large majority of Sinhala Buddhists of the country ?
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