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Provincial Council in the East will confirm the de-merger.
By Charles.S.Perera
JVP is against setting up a Provincial Council in the East and North, but does not explain why they are against it. If the Provincial Councils are working well in the South, they should work well in the East. If there are defects in the Provincial Council system, the JVP should propose changes, and help the government to give effect to those changes.
In merely going against the elections for the establishment of a Provincial Council in the East JVP is not doing a service to the people in the East, who for the first time after fourteen years are trying to organise themselves for a democratic way of life.
If the Provincial Council system is defective, even if amendments to the system were to be proposed, it will be a long time before the system would be updated. Until then the existing system has to go on. The North and East have been de-merged and the de-merger has to be confirmed by establishing Provincial Councils in the two regions. The government cannot be expected to postpone the establishment of Provincial Councils in the North and the East until a new system of Provincial Councils are proposed and accepted in the Parliament.
Therefore, the JVP is not making an intelligent move in opposing Provincial Council Elections in the East. If there are defects and a third party could benefit from those defects the JVP should cooperate with the government to find out a solution. JVP cannot take the responsibility on its own to rectify the defects by sabotaging the government decision to hold the elections.
The JVP perhaps wants to precipitate progress. But unfortunately they seem to be doing it in the wrong way. Progress should come by stages. Therefore , people may appreciate the JVP better if they would cooperate with the government to bring about such progress changes.
But, at the moment JVP is acting without responsibility. The JVP MP Piyasiri Wijenayake has said that, "…. it will convene the entire working class to major strike action to protest the barbaric repression against them by President Mahinda Rajapaksa who rode to power on their backs. Without stopping at repressing the people, the present regime is now trying to murder them by cutting off their heads….."
The words are perhaps not his, but the tone of the whole statement is wanting in dignity, and Parliamentary diplomacy. The President Rajapakse had said that the JVP had helped him to win his Presidential election. The President is a simple man, who does not refuse to show his gratitude. He speaks with responsibility, and comraderie. There is no necessity for Mr. Wijenayake to flaunt those remarks, the way he did.
Some times one feels that the JVP is like a bull in a glass shop knocking every thing down. People will appreciate JVP if they take a more responsible attitude towards the government. If you keep on repeating, that the President had rode to power on the back of the JVP, the JVP then has a duty to support that President.
JVP should not act like Lakshman Kiriella, Tissa Attanayake, Ranil Wickramasinghe, and S.B.Senanayake of the UNP, because compared to UNP, JVP is a progressive Party, and respects its responsibility to the people. Therefore, JVP should act with more modesty, and understanding.
UNP is a spent force, and those big mouths are a shame to the UNP and a curse to the country. |
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