Why we should give two third majority to Podujana Peramuna and its Sandanaya and not vote for Sajith Premadasa led Samagi Peramuna , UNP.or JVP

  

There may not be election meetings . There may not be house to house  campaign by Candidates.  But there may the possibility of voting for your preferred candidate from the political party you support. Therefore there are things that you have to think before you cast your vote. 

We had been a country that was in the process of being divided and communally separated by a ruthless group of terrorists supported by the so called Western Democracies. Yes Western Democracies.  We were saved from that eventuality  thanks to the people who elected  Mahinda Rajapaksa as the President of Sri Lanka in 2005, amidst  powerful forces against him within and without the country. President Mahinda Rajapakse faced that terrorist situation  with Gotabhaya Rajapakse as his Defence Secretary.

Though many now tries to take the credit  for that great victory against terrorism, it was definitely the  determination and the unwavering  confidence  Gotabaya Rajapaksa had  of the Armed Forces that they can successfully fight that “war” against terrorism .

Our Armed Forces were willing to take all risks , knowing that they were in the command of the reliable  political leadership of  President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse, who himself had previously been in the war against terrorism. Therefore the the Armed Forces stood firmly determined to  defeat terrorism for good.

Despite that courageous decision taken and fulfilled, the people were ungrateful to Mahinda Rajapaksa who gave back to them  the right to exist as a free people in a  peaceful environment , yet  defeated him at the Presidential election  in January, 2015, to what they hoped  was for a change for a better life, and we now know what cost that change of heart  to bring to power the worlds worst government led by  Maithreepala Sirisena and RanilWickramasinghe  with the support of JVP which they called Yahapalanaya –good governance. What a deception it was need not be reiterated. And the voting  Gotabaya Rajapkse as the President in  November ,2019 with a 19 lack majority was a vindication of that deception.

The people were wise to have elected Gotabhaya Rajapaksa as the President of Sri Lanka in November,  2019. Sajith Pemadasa did his best to balloon himself as  the appropriate  Candidate with working dynamos, fully charged batteries and above all with the genes of  Ranasinghe Premadasa to lead Sri Lanka as its President.

But the people knew better, that neither Ranasinghe Premadasa, nor Ranil Wickramasinghe with whom Sajith associated were  commendable men, and  the son with such genes could not be any better than the father.

It was an error that the armed forces that wiped out the terrorists were considered to have violated human rights by the worlds most stupid Institution the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, when actual violators of human rights were Ranasinghe Premadasa and Ranil Wickramasinghe  with a history of burning  rebellious youth on pyres of rubber wheels and torturing  others  in Batalanda torture camp.

If the people were not wise enough not  to have been  swayed by Sajith Premadasa’s  exaggerated  trumpet blowing, we would have had the most disastrous President of all times in Sri Lanka . We are fortunate that our people were not  fooled by this “big” talk of loud mouthed Sajith Premadasa..

Fortunately for Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa a far more intelligent  and a visionary leader  who could bring back Sri Lanka from the sad state it has been relegated to by the Yahapalanaya, was elected as the President. But he  has inherited an empty treasury, and is compelled to govern under utterly modest financial conditions as a  a minority government in the Parliament. 

The opposition led by the failed leader Sajith Premadasa who was finally elected in the Parliament as the leader of the opposition  boasts that the opposition  would vote with “both hands” if the government  were to present any bills in parliament.  But that was a hoax to mislead the government.  Their intention was to allow the government to present a   Bill  in Paliament and then vote against it,  thus putting the government into  greater difficulty  by having to  dissolve the government  and reappoint a new government.  

That became evident when the government presented a Vote on Account to parliament  to  pay the debts, incurred by the Yahapalanaya which remain unpaid, thus blocking the government from buying  essentials   such as manure for farmers and medicine for hospitals etc.

This move of the leader of the Opposition  was a ploy to embarrass the government,  and antagonise the people against the government.  But  Sajith did not see  that it was the country and the people who suffered as a result. This the people should take into account when they go to polls to cast their votes,  and vote against the candidates put forward by the Samagi Peramuna of Sajith Premadasa, the UNP lead by Ranil Wickramasinghe, and Anura Dissanayake led JVP.

JVP leaders are clever to present to the people that both Samagi Peramuna of Sajith Peramuna and Podujana Peramuna  will not be able to give the people the desired changes as it is they of  the JVP, who have the key to provide the people with what they desire.

But these are mere words. Their true colours would be seen only if they ever come to power. They stand for a  new Sri Lanka without its Buddhist cultural back ground , a country where there is no communal difference . But JVP would still work with the UNP because they are politically sheltered by the UNP.

JVP cannot  understand  the heart beat of the people. Sri Lanka is unique  because of its Buddhist Cultural back ground. The Sinhala people have no other country to claim to be theirs. Therefore Sri Lanka has to preserve its Buddhist Sinhala  identity which JVP opposes on the ground of  equality for all.

This is contrary to what the people desire and therefore the people should not vote for them as it would be a wasted vote.

Today  the Government of the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is facing  great difficulty in the administration of the country  due to the financial mismanagemnt of Yahapalanaya. Perhaps the sudden fall of the price of  fuel could be utilised by the government holding back  the  immediate benefits  going to the people and use the fall off  to bring substantial changes delayed due to  the present financial  difficulties, enhanced by the Corona virus and the government’s great effort to save the country from making it go to a pandemic level, and until  a new Budget is passed in the Parliament after the elections in April.2020.

The Opposition led by Sajith Premadsa and the JVP are trying to stop this possibility to allow the government to give the people  the  desired  financial relief  and   find a way out of the present financial difficulties  by insisting  at their political platforms  that the  Government should  give the people  the benefit  from the falling down of the fuel prices. 

The Opposition leader and the JVP are not  clamouring for these demands for any love they have for the people and the country but merely to put the people against the government ad stop it from getting a two third majority.

The financial crisis that the Government is facing  is not  its making but that of the Yahapalanaya Government  which had failed to pay the  bills for construction work , pay for the purchase of manure during their period of government, and pay he unpaid bills for the purchase of medicine.

The financial difficulties the government is facing  is a national issue where  a reasonable, concerned Opposition should cooperate with the government  by voting in the parliament  for the Vote on Account if they are really interested in the welfare of the people.  But Sajith Premadasa is a political leader  without political maturity, working for his own personal aggrandisement. Therefore  the  well being of the country and its people are far from his thoughts.

Sajith Premadasa  is campaigning with the intention of becoming the Prime Minister.  But as the Minister of Housing  in Yahapalanaya Government he was a failure. Further more  he had not even  participated in any  important  debates in parliament, and above all he does not show qualities of a Prime Minister. That may be the reason why apparently Ranil Wickramasinghe seems to wants his defeat . Ranil Wickramasinghe  is also  refusing to give him the leadership of the UNP .

These are the matters the people should think of and take into consideration at the polls and vote  to give Mahinda Rayapaksa led Podujana Peramuna a resounding victory. That would be a vote to bring Sri Lanka to what it had been before the 8 th January, 2015 and for its development into  a modern Sovereign National State with different communites  living in harmony as Sri Lankans.

There is a belief amoung  the English Speaking Colombians that a “tyranee” of absolute majority should be avoided. That comes from the believers in an exaggerated democracy dentified as British..

Democracy we have seen from our own experience and that of many other countries, is beign dictated to us  by the so called developed democracies insisting  that the developing countries should adhere to a strict democratic norm as defined by them. But this norm is apparently different from their democracy..

These pontificators contrary to their strictures have adopted democracy to fit into their own purposes. We see the functionality of the UNHRC in Geneva too have got into a habit of looking at democracy differently according to the countries they deal with.

But developing countries should not  adopt the western interpretation of democracy as such  a system will  not allow the developing countries to rise above their “developing” status. In 2015 Mahinda Rajapaksa lost at the Presidential election because his opponents carried  a campaign against him that the 18th Amendment to the Constitution was for him to continue to be a life-long President.  

Which was wrong as President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s  Government  after successfully eliminating  terrorism and after a planned economic development program  successfully brought  “ The Sri Lankan economy to a robust annual growth at 6.4 percent over the course of 2010 to 2015. Sri Lanka is now focusing on long-term strategic and structural development challenges as it strives to transition to an upper middle income country.” “ Sri Lanka increased from below 15% of GDP in the mid-1970 to about 25% of GDP in 2010/ This is a remarkable trend.” (World Bank).

The President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s intention was to keep the pace of development by continuing to lead a government for a further period of five years to strive  transition to an upper middle income Country, which he would have been able accomplish  if he was elected President at the 2015 Presidential election.

That was what Sri Lanka missed  in January, 2015,  and the result is that the Yahaplanaya reversed the development process to  an economic growth below that of Afghanistan.

Today we have President Gotabaya Rajapakse who with a keen intelligence and determination  will follow the steps of his elder brother now his Prime Minister to bring Sri Lanka pack to the correct path for its development and bring back the pace of development set by President Mahinda Rajapakse to take  Sri Lanka to the next level of an upper middle income country and more.

To accomplish that for the people of Sri Lanka he needs a two third majority so that he will not have to depend on any other political party, or allow other political parties  to become a deterent to reacho reach the target he has set. 

Therefore the people of this country should not hesitate to give their  fullest support to the President Gotabaya Rajapakse by giving a land slide  victory to the candidates put forward by Podujana Peramuna and its allied Parties led by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse.