The Presidential Election campaign has given
a flying start to Mahinda Rajapaksa with the opposition still looking for the
common candidate. It is almost certain that neither Ranil Wickremesinghe nor
Chandrika Kumaratunga would be the common candidate as both of them are not
favoured by the western countries led by England and US. It is unfortunate that
sixty six years after limited independence the opposition led by the UNP is
still getting instructions from the former colonial masters. The latest
addition to the list of colonial followers is a section of the Jathika Hela
Urumaya (JHU) that has become a part of the vijathika balavegaya (non national
forces). This section is neither Jathika nor Hela and could be called Vijathika
Hela Virodhi Karumaya. They would be leaving the UPFA and the government in a
short time and would be lost in political wilderness.
In the meantime the JNP and the
Deshahithaishee Jathika Vyaparaya (DJV) that were talking of bringing down the
government before the Uva Provincial Elections has made a U turn to support the
government after their dismal performance at the said elections. They are
overdoing their act now inviting those who had supported and protected the
government on a principled position albeit having differences with the
government on certain issues, to join them under their banner to protect the
government! If one goes through the recent issues of Muragala the journal of
the DJV one would realise the change of position of the Vyaparaya. However, we
must be happy that this movement has not become part of the vijathika
balavegaya like a section of the JHU, thanks to the Uva Provincial elections.
The Presidential elections is an
extension of the fight between the Jathika (national) and Vijathika (non national) forces. This is
going to be the Presidential election that would decide whether we defeat Tamil
racism or not, and the western countries that have created and promoted Tamil
racism will leave nothing unexplored as they know that if Mahinda Rajapaksa is
elected this time he would defeat Tamil racism as well. In his first term
Mahinda Rajapaksa defeated Tamil terrorism that was sponsored by the western
countries and the Gandhi family in India, and put the country on a development
programme albeit on the western model. In the second term he consolidated these
two and the country is on a development path whether we like it or not. In the
third term he has to defeat Tamil racism and engage in developing the economy
on the western model gradually turning towards a national model.
The Jathika forces are led by Mahinda
Rajapakse while the Vijathika forces have still not found a leader. The western
countries prefer Karu Jayasuriya to Ranil Wickremesinghe and Chandrika
Kumaratunga and Ven Maduluwawe Sobhitha thera is likely to withdraw with Ven
Athureliye Rathana Thera of the JHU if Karu Jayasuriya is given the ticket to
contest and lose the Presidential elections. However, the pseudo Sinhala
Buddhist leanings of Karu Jayasuriya could go against him when canvassing the
support of the TNA and few other Tamil parties. These parties would prefer
Ranil Wickremesinghe or Chandrika Kumaratunga but their anti Sinhala policies
have been obvious. The west would prefer a minster of the government to Karu
Jayasuriya provided they can find one.
Ranil Wickremesinghe in the meantime has
blamed the government for not challenging the decision of the European Union to
effectively allow the LTTE and its front organisations to collect funds lifting
the ban on the LTTE. The EU has also imposed economic sanctions on Sri Lanka by
not buying fish from Sri Lanka on flimsy grounds. Ranil Wickremesinghe the man
who betrayed the country and especially the Sinhala people by signing the
infamous Ceasefire Agreement with the terrorist leader Prabhakaran is now
blaming the government for not challenging the EU on lifting the ban on the
LTTE. Prabhakaran and Wickremesinghe were the darlings of the westerners and
one is dead now.
Has Ranil Wickremesinghe all of a sudden
become a patriot? No he is only legitimizing the EU decision to lift the ban on
the LTTE. The position of the government is that no international jury, so
called united nation human rights and other organisations have jurisdiction over what happened during the
humanitarian operations. The government has already appointed the Paranagama
Commission to look into these matters and Sri Lanka is not bound by hearsay
evidence of so called NGO (western governmental organisations) activists
without supplying hard facts.
Had the government challenged the
European Union it would have legitimized the European Union to interfere in the
national policies of Sri Lanka. We are in a mess because the UNP governments
and the government of Chandrika Kumaratunga (anti Sinhala leader for all
purposes who is fit to be the common candidate of the west) allowed the west
and India to interfere in our internal affairs. Ranil Wickremesinghe is only
continuing with his pro western policies and his letter written to the European
Union on behalf of LTTE (legitimizing the terrorists and their sponsors in the
west) has to be deplored by the national
forces that excludes the Ven. Ratana faction of the JHU. It is not difficult to
identify the wolf (tiger) in sheep cloth.
The clamour of the opposition to abolish
the executive Presidency has to be considered in this light. Tamil racism that
is maintained by the western countries can be defeated only by “defeating” those countries.
We have to evolve a method to defeat these countries by going against their
knowledge that is imposed on us in the field of politics, economics and culture
not to mention the other fields such as western science. When we defeated Tamil
terrorism we had our own knowledge without getting stuck with United Nations
resolutions and so called modern knowledge in politics and warfare.
The government is being led along the
garden path by some anti national forces that have come closer to the
government during the last few years. However, these forces can be defeated
only by helping the government to overcome the defects, and not by joining
hands with the westerners themselves. The section of the JHU that is hell bent
on defeating Mahinda Rajapaksa has played into the hands of the enemy.
If the executive presidency is abolished
at this juncture it will give power to a parliament that would abdicate
legislative powers and other powers of the people to the colonial powers in the
name of a non existing democracy in the west. The west wants a weak government
in Sri Lanka led by a puppet so that they could dictate terms to us. A puppet
cannot effectively lead and the words led by a puppet are contradictory. It
only means that there is no effective leadership in the country and the
leadership is provided by the Ministers of state and foreign affairs in the
western countries. Unfortunately for the west the President is elected and not
appointed and the people in Sri Lanka can identify not only the enemy but the
agents of the enemy as well.
Nalin De Silva
14-11-2014