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Ranil Wickremasinghe and His Failed Politics

S. Hewage

Ranil Wickremasinghe is the leader of the opposition in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. In any democracy, the opposition is considered to be the party-in-waiting to form the next government. Accordingly, the leader and its fellow party-men are entrusted to develop alternative proposals and ideas, and to provide constructive criticisms of the programs of the government. As such, the leader of the opposition is treated with great respect because if, everything goes well, he would be the next leader of the country. In the case of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremasinge should prepare his party to form the next government. Unfortunately, this leader of the opposition is doing all he can to remain in the opposition. Moreover, he is even willing to compromise any hope of his party to form the next government by making sure that all far-sighted, intelligent patriotic men or women will not launch formidable challenges to his leadership position; and so these capable people leave the party.

How does Ranil Wickremasinghe do all these idiosyncratic politics as the leader of the opposition and what is his self-destructive modus operandi:

Ranil Wickremasinghe consistently insults the majority Sinhala Buddhist population, and its venerated cultural symbols in a cynical ploy to please the anti-Sinhala Buddhists fringe-elements of the society (i.e. underworld gangsters, pseudo-NGOs with a huge appetite for foreign currency, imperial forces with geopolitical agendas) who are working hand-in-hand with separatist terrorists;
Ranil Wickremasinghe spends a good deal of his time traveling abroad as an executive member of an organization, known to himself and other members of the group, designed to “promote democracy.” Ironically, many of these members were active supporters of the illegal invasion of Iraq that has caused enormous amount of deaths and destruction. So, it should best be described that this group has dedicated itself to destroy nation-states by its strategy of “regime-change,” rather than promoting peace, democracy, and global prosperity;
Ranil Wickremasinghe’s front-line supporters, co-organizers, and activists have no political experience, let alone an understanding of democracy and how such a concept could be implemented at the community level. Thus, many of them would readily insult their political opponents, belittle their accomplishments, and even ridicule their sense of patriotism, as the leader himself often performs in frequent media conferences;
In addition, Ranil Wickremasinghe now has another duo, SLFP (Modaya Group), two men who have no future in the politics on their own, but to be part of the comedy team of Ranil Wickremasinghe to attract the limelight of the fringe media. These two men are bitter with the current leadership of the ruling party because they were not given plum ministerial positions in the government. These two are best known as “muckrakers” in the local gossip media, and they are extremely good at inventing stories, mud slinging, and rumor mongering designed to damage the character of their opponents.

It is clear that the entire political program of Ranil Wickremasinghe is based on activities that are extremely self-destructive as far as his political ambitions are concerned. Yet, he is not the least worried because he is not an ambitious man. Having lost 12 elections, which is itself a world record that his supporters seem to admire, Ranil is simply working to facilitate his international friends to spread their tentacles in strategic places on the island. He will promptly reward traitors (as he did for Velupillai Prabahkara of the LTTE by signing an accord under the influence of his international friends,) and ruthlessly discards patriots and right-thinking people (as he did to Karu Jayasuriya and other democratic members of the UNP) who want to help fellow Sri Lankans and build the nation. The current government’s best asset is not its strength in democracy as it sometime steers away from it in its mandates, or its steadfast commitment to solve the nation’s economic and social problems. The irony is that so long as Ranil is the leader of the opposition, the present government, unfortunately, does not feel the urgency to get its act together and to solve the nation’s problems.

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