The Coming Together Of A New
Sinhala Alliance To Ursurp The Present Administration Could Spell Disaster
To The Nation.
March 20th 2007
There is no nuance in the speculation that United National Party (UNP)
leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and Former Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera
have simultaneously called for 'unity' among those who want to 'protect'
democracy to counter what they have called an emerging government
tyranny. Further speculation that both these schemers and former
President Chandrika Bandaranaika together with an indisputable chamelon
of indistinguishable political loyalties based on how he perceives the
extent to which he could line his own pockets as well as gratify some
of his other mundane and perhaps physical needs at the expense of unsuspecting
victims and recently imerged from incarceration, a name hardly worth
mentioning by virtue of its infamy are attempting to come together in
an alliance to launch an' attack' on the government of President Mahinda
Rajapaksa does not simplify what the overall outcome of such an alliance
by such a group of dubiuous politicians who have left the Nation in
near shambles would be!beyond disaster. It is something the Nation has
to brace for in dread apprehension!
In a climate which has brought respite for the nation in many areas
under the pragmatic and wise leadership of Mahinda Rajapakska regardless
of criticism levelled at his faith in the adage "there's safety
in numbers and one's blood is thicker than water" Sri Lanka has
stabilised from the ungainly insecure nation it was some decades ago!.Now
it appears that his adversaries, which normally should be the enemy
from the outside are in reality the enemy from within translating to
the Sinhalese enclave of politicians in whom he placed so much trust
but have now reneged on him instead of pitting their fullest support
in the best interests of the Country at a time when National Unity seems
imperative! So is it any wonder that certain areas of Tamil dissent
regardless of whether they support the LTTE or not still sing that age
old song "Sinhalaya Modaya?"
Even in fickle speculation relative to the goings on in the political
spectrum of Sri Lanka today given their track record, the likes of a
union of Ranil Wickremesinghe, Mangala Samaraweera, S.B Dissanayake
and Chandrika Kumaratunga could spell disaster for Sri Lanka and undo
a world of good which has been set in place in the post Rajapaksha Presidential
victory era where Sri Lanka has stood firm against her enemies and has
earned the respect of many Nations as one which will never be intimidated
by the impure devises and designs of greed and the hunger for power
not only of terrorists but its own kith and kin which are the embodiments
of a residual quantity of shameful Sinhalese to whom National Unity
means little or nothing!! To add insult to the injuries attempted by
these puny individuals they then attempt to slander and denigrate the
President and his astute administration whose task towards restoring
the ills of Sri Lanka are by no means a cake walk given the many obstacles
needing to be overcome and these so called preachers of democracy need
to take a good look at themselves in the mirror first!
The President may have his critics on many platforms and there may be
many accusations levelled at him over his modus operandi and administrative
direction but Sri Lanka has certainly earned more than a modicum of
respect as previously mentioned, in the international arena as a Nation
headed in the proper direction towards posterity and that her no nonsense
leadership and its configuration of patriotic allies are the reason
for this.The confidences from foreign allies have once again begun to
build. Industrial giants such as China, Russia, India and to a lesser
degreePakistan together with many western Powers such as the USA, Britain,
Canada, Australia and New Zealand to name some have despite a few contentions
over speculated human rights glitches by some~ mostly through media
hype that reality have pitted their faith and support in favour of Sri
Lanka towards the future and have acknowledged that the present administrative
direction is a correct and justified one whereas a motley few are trying
to desecrate this concept towards their own gains which is something
apathetic and to a degree ignorant!
No longer is there a trepidation that this is a leader who is capable
of selling out the Nation towards his own gain or political stability
and supremacy although his enemies continue to portray the Nation's
charismatic President as someone who is just that and is in connivance
with the enemy which is a horribly untrue accusation! and any negative
accusations against him coming from areas such as the Wickremesinghe,
Samaraweera, Sooriyaarachi, Kumaratunga, Dissanayake et al - camp need
to be cast to the winds and ignored as expletives of anguish by a group
of disgruntled, frustrated and disillusioned discards of former administrative
power whose very presence in the political arena of Sri Lanka today
could pose a danger of disrupting and dismantling all the inroads made
by the Rajapaksha Administration and there have been quite a few.
The simplest way to arrive at this conclusion is to merely look back
at the dismal track record of these individuals alongside a few others
who have pledged alliance to them in what they say is a great threat
to democracy in Sri Lanka where the reality of it rests on the danger
of a coming together of these individuals which would pose the real
threat to Sri Lanka.
Furthermore the threat of LTTE terrorism has been pushed into the farthest
corner in living memory and the armed forces have them on the run.The
nation's economy which was teetering during the Chandrika Kumaratunga
regimes due to her own idealogies and excesses of bifurcated Governmental
spending at long last seems to be headed in the right direction albeit
slowly. An element of security and confidence has been restored that
the Nation will not be plagued by terrorism due to a willy nilly leadership
which are all in the cards towards a better Sri Lanka and a thought
which seems to be burning a hole in the mindsets of a selfish and myopic
few whose keyword seems ursurpance of the Administration towards their
own opportunistic gains and must not ne heeded!
It seems amusing that the present leader of the opposition and a former
prime minister even suggests "that it is time for all those who
love democracy should come forward and be united against the Rajapaksha
Company'' which whilst being a reference to the Rajapaksha Administration
comes from an individual whose dubious past not only pointed many unproven
albeit seemingly credible allegations of his involvement in the infampous
Batalanda massacres but has also suggested hidden agendas with the LTTE
terrorists and a plethora of accusations about his tardy wheeling and
dealing with all the wrong sources, the leeway he once provided Norway
with which manifested itself into the LTTE regrouping from their own
insecurities and whose transparencies eventualy became visible to a
very discerning nation and much much more which is now history!
Sadly, political power in Sri Lanka in the reckoning of such individuals
seems carte blance to be autocratic and dictatorial towards the end
of their tenures and the only thing which has stood between themselves
and their objectives could be atributed to the Universal Franchise of
the people of Sri Lanka whose votes have eventually kept them in check
and restricted their own undemocratic attempts to seal their securities
at the expense of the overall security and well being of the Nation!It
has been the deterrent towards a fecund dictatorship at all times wherein
lies the democracy these false prophets seem to be preaching about ant
the people of Sri lanka no longer have much faith in them and their
track record! A fact of life!
It has been said in the famous words of the great American President
Abraham Lincoln the "You can fool all the people some of the time,
some of the people all the time but never all the people all the time"
and all the people of Sri Lanka who have a credible knowledge of the
past history of these individuals if they have any love for their beloved
country should make every attempt to prevent any regrouping of these
contentious individuals towards any political power within a Nation
which seems to be making great progress into the future under its present
leadership.