Your
Excellency the President,
My
felicitations for your election as the President of Sri Lanka,
Some voted
for you and some against you. That is
understandable as it is how democracy works.
Therefore when you became the President some people were happy, while
those whose candidate lost at the
election were sad and dejected. Now that you have won the elections and sworn
in as the President of Sri Lanka you
should be generous and graceful in victory, and request your entourage to be
like wise.
You cannot
denounce or allow your partners in victory to stamp their feet on
the lost candidate and invent
accusations with a view to make him
unpopular, because it would any way be a vein exercise as a little more than
49 percent of the whole voting
population, and 53 percent of the Sinhala Buddhists voted for him.
However
much your partners in government are raking up all dirt to find out
whether they can bring up some thing to
nail the former President Mahinda
Rajapakse they will find nothing against
him or against his family members. The
people of this country who voted for the former President Mahinda
Rajapakse cannot be deceived to
believe by false allegations without any substantial proof against him, that he was corrupt and robbed the country.
Mahinda
Rajapakse or his brothers did not come to rob and accumulate ill earned wealth
to lead a comfortable life. As you know
very well Your Excellency Mahinda
Rajapakse had a clear objective when he contested the Presidential
election in 2005. You know without my having to remind you the state in which
this country was in 2005. Mahinda Rajapakse had two main objectives when he was
elected President in 2005.
One was to
defeat the terrorists and eliminate them. The second was to give back to Sri Lanka
In the
latter Your Excellency, the former President Mahinda Rajapakse made a mistake ,
because the Tamils in the North got the best they could from him, and voted
against him. The Sinhala in the South
would have voted for him any way, but he could have taken half the funds spent
for the development of the Tamils in the north to spend it in the south,because
the Sinhala people also suffered from terrorism. But the former President Mahinda Rajapakse
treated all people without a difference, but it would have been natural if he
expected the Tamils to show their
gratitude by voting for him.
Your
Excellency, it has been reported that
you have since your swearing in as the President of Sri Lanka made three
good speech. They are perhaps of general
interest. But the time has come for you to make more frequent speeches and on
policy matters and the comportment of
your Ministers to remind them of their moral duty to be kind and generous to
the vanquished-Maitri Palanaya demands just that.
You have to
tell the people Your Excellency, why this intolerable witch hunt to inculpate the
President and his family for crimes they have not committed. The Police Force is sent to investigate their homes and
homes of their friends and neighbours immediately complaints are made on
flimsiest matters.
All your
Ministers are out raking so much of dirt in search of evidence against
the Rajapakses some people say sarcastically you have not appointed Ministers
to your cabinet but sanitary inspectors.
Your
Excellency, the Ranil Wickramasinghe ,
Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Champika Ranawake the most important people in your government today want to remove your executive powers. But Your
Excellency you are today already without any power despite being an Executive President. It is
Ranil Wickramasinghe, as the Prime Minster who decides for you . He wants the 13th Amendment implemented.
Is it not
wrong to do so and allow the Tamils eventually create a separate Tamil Eelam
State
Ranil
Wickramasinghe could be a dangerous Prime Minister to work with . You remember what happened when he became
the Prime Minister under President
Chandrika Kumaratunga ? He signed
the CFA with Prabhakaran and it took
a President like Mahinda Rajapakse to rectify that great error. This time he is trying to do the same thing
and it appears that you cannot have your say on the matter.
You are
hedged in between Anura Kumara Dissanayake with the powers of the
National Executive Committee, then with
Champika Ranawake of the JHU, Ranil Wickramasinghe your Prime Minister and Mangala Samara
Samaraweera who is building an unholy alliance with India and trying to sell
off the Sovereignty of Sri Lanka inviting the UN and an International Commission to inquire into what happened
during the last phase of the war against terrorists. They all stand tall over
you and plan and arrange things without
even consulting you from what we see from far.
Worse
things are on the pipe line Your Excellency, and one begins to wonder whether
it is wise for you to divest yourself of
your Executive Powers.
Your
Excellency, Our Constitution is the supreme law of the land . “The Constitution sets out a regular
procedure for enacting Constitutional amendments, and that procedure gives
citizens an opportunity, albeit a brief and limited one, to challenge proposed
amendments before the Supreme Court. Citizens have this same right with
respect to any proposed new law. ”
Your Prime Minister Your Excellency is proposing to bring Amendments to
the Constitution within the 100 days of
your interim government under the Urgent Bill provision. It is wrong to bring any amendment to the
Constitution without a serious debate. No amendments should be made to the Constitution in a “hurry” resorting to the Urgent Bill
Provision.
“The
“Urgent Bills” provision allows the president and the Cabinet to bypass the
normal procedure for enacting new laws, which means citizens do not have a
chance to challenge the proposed law, at the Bill stage, even to the limited
extent they are normally allowed. All that is needed to pass an “urgent
Bill” is an endorsement by the Cabinet that the Bill in question is “urgent in
the national interest,” and a two-thirds majority in Parliament on the day the
vote is taken on the Bill.
With regular legislation (i.e. proposed laws other
than Constitutional amendments) the law in question, even if it is passed as an
“Urgent Bill” it can be repealed later with just a simple majority in
Parliament. So, for instance, if a law passed as an “Urgent Bill” becomes
obnoxious to the people later on, it can be repealed by a simple majority in Parliament,
and that’s the end of the matter.
With a Constitutional amendment, if it becomes
obnoxious later on, a simple majority in Parliament cannot repeal it. One
has to obtain a two-thirds majority, which is obviously much more difficult.
So,
in essence, what using the “Urgent Bill” provision to enact Constitutional
Amendments does is, it deprives the citizen of even the limited chance he or
she has to challenge the proposed amendment before it becomes law, and makes it
more or less impossible to repeal the new amendment were it to become obnoxious
later on. It is a thoroughly dangerous invention, to say the least. “
(Dharshan Weerasekara -
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/07/09/the-fatal-flaw-in-the-sri-lanka-constitution/ The
Fatal flaw in the Sri Lankan Constitution’.)
Your
Excellency there are many things taking place
in your Interim Government which you should personally look into, as
otherwise Your Ministers including the Prime Minister Your Excellency have their own Agendas some times distantly controlled
by foreign governments. Therefore it is
time that you come out of your silence and make your self heard, and stop any
action which is not in the larger interest of the country and the people.
Your
Excellency we are still not ready to implement the whole of the 13Amendment
,nor are we still ready to reduce the Armed Forces in the North. The TNA should not be allowed to make North
an entirely Tamil region without allowing Sinhala people to settle down where ever it pleases them, as it is happening in the South with the
Tamils.
Thank you,
Your Excellency,
Charles.S.Perera
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