A Message to UNP Backbenchers to form a new political party or reconstruct the Old getting rid of the destructive elements.

It is perhaps because they are rich and that their parents  were from  UNP, that the UNP Parliamentary backbenchers do not see that the old capitalist system is not suitable  to Sri Lanka any more.

When we got our Independence in 1948 there was Colonialism. It was the Russian Revolution that influenced  Colonies to gain Independence. After Russian revolution Communism spread in Europe and the ideas of a Socialist  system of government, different from Capitalism began to take root in European Countries,  and even  those countries that got  independence from colonial rule.  

In Sri Lanka capitalism- a political  system, a step away from  feudalism that existed in pre-colonial Sri Lanka, was acceptable to the then political leaders, who  continued with the capitalist parliamentary system proposed by their  Colonial Masters. They interpreted the Socialist system of Government  the Communist and the Samasamaja Parties were proposing to the people ,   a system of government against religion,  and  against accepted Buddhist Cultural norms where they addressed everyone including their elders as Comrades.

The Marxists- the Samasamaja and the Communist parties found  that their revolutionary political ideas  were more easily accepted by the working class, and hence neglected  the farmers and the peasants of the villages outside townships.

However the leaders of the  Marxist Parties,  N.MPerera, Colvin R De Silva, Bernard Soysa,Dr.Wickramasinghe, Keunaman, Philip and Robert Gunewardhan brothers, William Silva were becoming popular political figures as people began to understand them through their speeches that Socialism they proposed was a people friendly system  more acceptable than the  capitalist British system of the less  talkative political leaders – of the Sinhala Mahasabha the  predecessors to the UNP system.

By 1951 the UNP Government started having political difference within the party. D.S.Senanayake died in 1952. The UNP then as they are today were leaning heavily towards the Western Countries , and they were not willing to change their western capitalists  system to a people friendly system of Government.

The political leaders of the UNP then,  as they are  now were  more concerned  about themselves  and kept the people dependent on their capitalist  system, placing them-selves above the ordinary people and within their feudal hierarchic system. The people were   depending on them as the slaves of their Capitalist system of Government. Even today we see how much they look for their place in the social hierarchy, when a wife of a UNP Presidential hopeful tells the people at a public meeting  that she is the future first lady of Sri Lanka.

Seeing that UNP will not move from their  assumed  social superiority to form a people friendly Government, SWRD Bandaranayake left the UNP to give the people of Sri Lanka their  cultural and national rights denied to them by the Colonial rulers, as well as by  the UNP Government,  SWRD Banadaranaike  formed a government  of the people giving the rightful place to  Buddhist Monk,  the physician,  the teachers, and the peasant and the farmer.  He further put right the wrong political system by which the country had been ruled since independence by joining hands with the left wing politicians of the Samasamaja Party, Mahajana Eksath Peramuna and the Communist Party. He made meaningful the National anthem and the National flag.

The UNP Backbenchers should look  back and see for themselves  the failure of their  Capitalist System of Government, which has not contributed to the development of an Independent Sri Lankan Culture, society, or  even such an economy. There was a  cultural revival in Sri Lanka only after 1956 and that was not under the UNP.

The UNP Backbenchers should note  that  the system of government necessary for the benefit of  Sri Lanka,   and its people, is a system away from Western Capitalism, a socialist system. That is the demand of the people. It is why  Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna has become a popular party of the people, within a short time it was  announced as a Political Party.

The people will not vote for the present SLFP too if it contests any election in future as they have failed in 2015 to respect the  very reason that made SWRD Bandaranayaike leave the UNP in 1951 to form a Socialist Government in 1956 and join with the leftwing Political Parties.

To-day the General Secretary of the SLFP Dayasiri Jayasekara unable to feel the pulse of the people, is making a great effort to  make SLFP an independent party without joining the progressive Sri Lanka Socialist political Camp led by  Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna. This may be  because Dayasiri Jayasekara  comes from UNP and he can  not sense the thinking of SWRD Bandaranayake when he left UNP to form the SLFP.  Today SLFP has lost the reasons for which it was organised by its founder and therefore  SLFP is reduced to a mere a name board. It is likely to break up and some of its members  may even join the UNP.

The UNP, states   as a criticism against the former Government of President Mahinda Rajapakse , that it  antagonised the Western Countries led by USA, and boasts that the UNP has now established friendly relations with those countries.

The UNP backbenchers when they speak in TV debates etc.,  should make sure of what they say without repeating what had been told by the UNP leaders.  The UNP backbenchers should investigate the truth.  

Mahinda Rajapakse and his government did not want to antagonise USA and the west, but they wanted them kept away from Sri Lanka until they  completed the military operations against terrorism.

But again Mahinda Rajapakse government  had invited USA to help Sri Lanka  to defeat terrorism, which USA did by locating the most of the ten LTTE ships transporting arms and ammunitions for terror purposes.

Yet other than that can the UNP backbenchers say whether USA had really helped Sri Lanka at any time in the past ?

USA is a country which has still not helped any developing countries in the world to develop even by giving them  loans.  JR Jayawardhan the UNP President had accepted USA as his close friend.  JR was in fact called Yankee Dicky. When he became the President he had no fear even about terrorism as he thought USA  would stand by him to defeat terrorism and help him bring peace and security to Sri Lanka.  Did it happen ?

When India dropped “dry ration”, to the terrorists in the North, and asked the President to enter into a peace agreement and amend the Constitution of Sri Lanka to include the 13^th  Amendment. USA looked away , and President Jayawardhana had nobody to help him. USA had betrayed him. Therefore, he entered into a peace agreement with India and mutilated  the Constitution of Sri Lanka by including the 13^th  Amendment proposed by India.

Though there is no developing country in the world  that USA helped to develop, there is no difficulty to name many countries destroyed, their leaders assassinated  or  their development hampered by USA ?

Cuba  under Fulgencio Batista was  some what like what  Sri Lanka would be under  Ranil Wickramasinghe preparing to sign  the SOFA Agreement with USA. Batista leased the sothern part of Cuba to USA  which is now a USA army base called Guantanamo.

Under Fulgencio Batista,  Cuba  became the play ground for the rich Americans. There were  prostitution, casinos, drug dealers ,and so on. It was  that Cuba,  Fidel Castro made a free and an  independent country. Yet Americans was all out to destroy Cuba. There were planned military attacks,  having failed in that America imposed trade embargos against Cuba. Cuba faced all that but never allowed America to  enter into the country. That is why Cuba survived.

China is a rich and a great country today, because they did not allow America to interfere in to China.  USSR was divided by USA, because Russian  leaders began to have ultra diplomatic relations with USA. After that USA did not allow USSR to unite again. However Russia  did not allow USA  to interfere into Russia. Thanks to President Putin, Russia is a rich and a  developed country today because  Russia had severed connections with USA.

USA cannot be trusted. Sri Lanka should learn  to avoid dealings with USA as USA can bring about only ruin to Sri Lanka. The UNP Backbenchers should pay serious attention to persons like Mangala Samaraweera in the UNP, who is a party to  selling  Sri Lanka to America. He proved that  by even sponsoring a Resolution by America  against  his own Country-Sri Lanka, without even the permission of the President and the Parliament.

India too claims an economic growth, but is that growth seen on the ground and amoung the people. There is a never ending caste problem in India and  many are subject to utter misery  many without even proper sanitary facilities.

 Sri Lanka was progressing fast towards development when unfortunately the people voted Yahapalanaya  into power which has  brought Sri Lanka back to being a poor country.

The UNP  Backbenchers please see and understand how much you are correct about USA.  Though you   repeatedly say  at TV Debates that the Government of  USA is  friendly  towards Ranil Wickramasinghe, and you had  seen the  Ambassador for USA Alaina Teplitz played a very close role  alongside   UNP in October,2019  when the President had dismissed  the Prime Minister, do you think that USA ws playing a protective role to help the PM Ranil in the development process , or was only looking after America’s own benefits, without  development of  Sri Lanka not even in their thoughts ?

This is what the UNP Backbenchers should seriously contemplate, think of, and understand from what the UNP had been doing in the past. Today UNP  is like an old race horse. It has run out of breath. It can never run any more races. It should be tethered and perhaps kept as a museum piece, it cannot plough, it will only  ruin the ground.

It is now time for the UNP Backbenchers to start from scratch and  initiate action to form a new political party or reconstruct the UNP getting rid of the destructive elements in it such as Ranil Wickramasinghe, Sajith Premadasa, Karu Jayasuriya, Malik Samarawickrama, Mangala Samaraweera, Ravi Katunanayake, Lakshmn Kiriella, Daya Gamage, Rosy Senanayake, Thalatha Athukorala, Amaratunga and the whole of that lot, including the Muslim MPs. who do not toe the line in the formation of a new political party.

Sri Lanka needs Gotabhaya Rajapakse as President after Four and half years under Yahapalanaya, which is worse than the thirty years under Terrorism.

The thirty years of terrorism though it affected the whole country through uncertainty of life, threat of the division of the country, loss of peace and security , we the Sinhala Buddhists  were able to keep the unity of the communities suffering under terrorism , protect the  Sinhala Buddhist culture, maintain the pride of being  members of a Sri Lankan nation, and the willingness to fight against terrorism despite the risk to life, and  continue  our religious practices without fear and maintain a satisfactory standard of living., even if that was  at a  great lost of  life and property.

But today, after  four years of Yahapalanaya of Maithripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickramasinghe , what is left of that Sri Lanka which existed before they came into power on the 8^th January,2015 ? 

Yahapalanaya  boasts that it brought back democracy , and allowed media freedom. But  they presume the people have forgotten  what the  situation was before 8^th January2015. It  was different, with a most ruthless terrorism  which no one from JR Jayawardhana to Chandrika Kumaratunga  was able to stop. But, even then,  democracy was  not at stake, though  a certain amount of media control was necessary.

No one can remove the frightful situation that existed  then in Sri Lanka , when  criticising Mahinda Rajapakse and his Government. Things were unusual  and the actions that had to be taken were also  unusual. Mahinda Rajapakse’s  government had to move cautiously keeping in mind the existing uncertain situation with terrorism on the one onehand  with foreign interventionists  try to thwart military operations, and on the other hand to feed a nation, keep employment  at a safe level, and  carry out  development projects .

But the UNP Parliamentarians at TV political debates incessantly shout themselves hoarse on Rajapussella shooting incident, a white van culture, disappearance of journalists  without having  any substantial proofs  of involvement of Mahinda Rjapakse and his government.

The main accusation levelled at Mahinda Rajapakse and his government is that it was corrupt. But no one has been able to prove until today whether Mahinda Rajapakse and his family and his  close associates had committed any serious bank robberies or misappropriations.

But  there are only  rumours , false unfounded accusations, and garish scandalous utterances, all merely to slander, insult  to make Mahinda Rajapakse, his family and his associates unpopular, with the intention of keeping political power  in their own  hands. Even then although they  took over the Government from Mahainda Rajapakse , they could not take away  from Mahinda Rajapakse and his associates the  love, the affection, and the confidence the  real people of the country had placed on them.

On the 8^th January,2015 the people voted for Maithripala Siriuesena, but the people never voted for Ranil Wickramasinghe to become the Prime Minister . Ranil wickramasinghe was only appointed the Prime Minister by the President Maithripala Sirisena.

There  is now a  rift between the President and the Prime Minister- a disagreement  of political views and political action. This means that there is a rift  also in the confidence the people placed  on President  Maithripala Sirisena as President,  viz a viz   Ranil Wickramasinghe  who was   selected by the President as the Prime Minister.

Unfortunately the Judiciary erred in their decision that the President had no right to dissolve the parliament before the end of four and a half years. Since then Ranil Wickramasinghe the Prime Minister has been  taking arbitrary decisions  on various matters without consulting the President or the Parliament, to the detriment of the country.

Today   Sri Lanka is facing a serious political situation with almost empty state coffers, administrative mismanagement by entering into agreements with foreign countries  resulting in loosing the sovereignty of the country, making Sri Lanka a play ground for the  USA and the West like what  Cuba was under Baptista before Fidel castro ousted him .

USA has an unholy government apparatus. They lack human qualities of  love, compassion and generosity. An American institution like the CIA, is a symbol of how unconcerned USA is with regard to  helping the poor countries to develop independently in their own way without USA  interfering into their internal  affairs , because of the American economic and military power. 

Both USA and Canada are what they are today because of the complete depletion of the population of the original inhabitants of the country the American Indians and the Canadian First Nation.  They talk of democracy having nailed the coffins of the real  owners of the America and Canada.

USA is still continuing their disastrous manipulative  non-democratic political game to keep the developing countries under their filthy iron feet.  They want to do  the same they  did using their CIA to Guatamala, Iran, Chili, and Congo then,  and to Iraq, Libya, etc. in the recent past. 

They used a man’s weakness for sex to deprive France of  perhaps a good President. They are trying to do that to Sri Lanka by using the sin of having taken USA citizenship to deprive a man loved by the people of Sri Lanka from: becoming a good President to his motherl and  his people in Sri Lanka.

To-do all that USA  along with the Western Governments has done to Sri Lanka  is to help  setting up a weak puppet yahapalanaya government  in Sri Lanka using their agent the member of the International Democratic Union  Ranil Wickramasinghe. The UNP Parliamentarians and members of the  UNP follow Ranil Wickramasinghe  without questioning his actions or  intentions.

Yahapalanaya Government from the day it was set up in Jnauary,2015 traced a path to destroy  Sri Lanka nurtured  in its Sinhala Buddhist Culture, by giving an important place for  a process of reconciliation with the Tamils. They commenced by destroying the identity of Sri Lanka by allowing the National Anthem to be sung in Sinhala and Tamil,  a thing that never happened in any other Country in the world  before.  All nations have one National Anthem sung in one language- the language of the majority.

After that the Yahapalanaya set the trail for leading the country towards bankruptcy by staging a Bond Scam robbery  twice and emptied the Government Coffers and went on a spree of debt raising putting the blame on the  necessity to re-pay loans taken by the  previous government of  President Mahinda Rajapakse for the develop of the country.

Yahapalanaya also began by  stopping   development projects started by Mahinda Rajapaksa government. it stopped  the development work of the Colombo City funded by China  causing unemployment to thousands of workers. Groping in political darkness Ranil Wickramasinghe who had diminished the powers of the President Sirisena under 19A was acting on his own signing agreements with Singapore, India, China and USA without consulting the President or the parliament.

USA had helped Ranil to drive nails into the coffin of real democracy, and hoist a name plate democracy of which he trumpets to a fooled nation of a renewed  democracy, freedom of the press and the end of a white van culture.  Ranil Wickramasinghe even took over the  Judiciary on to his side with USA twisting his arms trying to set up  its own legal system in Sri Lanka along with a base camp for the American Armed Forces. Besides that the Yahapalanaya has imported Islamic terrorism, and made Sri Lanka a dumping ground of British Garbage.

The Presidential election  is due to be held in Sri Lanka and if by some bad luck or through the sins the people have committed, and for their bad kamma Ranil Wickramasinghe or a some one  from the political front lead by him would come to power, that would be the end of Sinhala Buddhist Sri Lanka with over 2000 years of history.

The people of Sri Lanka should wake up to the looming danger and avoid voting for  any Presidential Candidate of the UNP or a United Front lead by the UNP, Ranil Wickramasinghe or the J.V.P.  

If Sri Lanka is to be saved from dangers it is facing today a solution is with the former President  Mahinda Rajapakse who had the vision and the ability to find ways to win the war with  the  ruthless terrorists, and  parallel to it develop the country from rigors of a thirty year terrorism and the ashes of poverty. 

The ability of setting the Sri Lanka back on its feet to walk towards a targeted development process, is in the camp of the Sri Lanka Podu Janaperamuna led by Mahinda Rajapakse and his patriotic supporters.  

One has to tread the ground carefully in making plans to rescue Sri Lanka dragging it out of the political, economic and social mire into which it has been pushed by Yahapalanaya goons blinded by power,  clean, and nurse  the Country before setting it back on its staggering feet weakened after four and a half years of destructive Yahapalanaya.

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna would probably  propose the former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse as their Presidential Candidate . He has shown his ability to stand against foreign powers and face the  local political and racial elements in the interest of the country and produce strong surprisingly fresh development projects to develop   towns and the country, using the Armed Forces in useful development projects. 

There may be those who criticise him for personal reasons but if one is selflessly looking at the country as a whole, the ideal candidate for the Presidential election, and subsequently  to lead the Country as its President would certainly be Gotabhaya Rajapakse, even if there are complaints that he is a military man rather than a politician to be the President of Sri Lanka, Once in power he is quite capable of adjusting himself  to political needs as he proved his ability to successfully coordinate  different Armed Forces of the ground, air and sea, to eliminate terrorism from Sri Lanka, and later to start development projects  bringing  peace and security to the country.