The opposition is still searching for
the common candidate and it is clear that high commissioners and ambassadors of
western countries are also involved in the exploration. The common candidate is
needed to defeat Mahinda Rajapakse who is not liked by the western countries to
say the least. The tacticians in the opposition seem to work on the hypotheses
that even a common candidate is unable to win the Presidential elections on the
first count and hence to reduce the vote of Mahinda Rajapakse a subsidiary common
candidate has to be found to win at least a fraction of the Sinhala Buddhist
vote. The opposition wants a second count, meaning counting of preferential
vote, in order to implement their “nonagatha” plans.
The Mangala, Ravi, Kiriella, Wijedasa Rajapakse (MRKW) team of
the UNP is against the candidature of Ranil Wickremesinghe as the common
candidate. The foursome do not see eye to eye but they are against the
candidature of the latter as they know that it will pave the way for Sajith
Premadasa to become the leader of the UNP. As Ranil Wickremesinghe is bound to
lose the Presidential elections with or without the subsidiary common candidate
his days as the leader of the UNP are numbered if he contests.
Ranil Wickremesinghe, the man who has an
understanding of Sinhala Buddhist Chinthanaya vis a vis Judaic Christian
Chinthanaya does not have the heart to be associated with the former
Chinthanaya. He is resented by the majority of the Sinhala Buddhists for
signing the treacherous ceasefire agreement with Prabhakaran, and for being too
much associated with the western conservatives and liberals. One may think that
the liberals and the conservatives are two different species but as far as the
majority of the Sinhala Buddhists are concerned there is no difference between
them. Both factions subscribe to the Greek Judaic Christian Chinthanaya, a fact
that the majority of Sinhala Buddhists grasp by intuition.
MRKW team does not want to be in the UNP
under Sajith Premadasa as the leader and they would like to see Ranil
Wickremesinghe continuing to be at the helm of the party. Thus they want
somebody other than Ranil Wickremesinghe to be the common Presidential
candidate whom they think would win the Presidential elections. Their main
effort is to field Chandrika Kumaratunga as the common candidate but if they go
by Sarath Silva’s argument, which they have endorsed, then Chandrika
Kumaratunga has been already disqualified. In any event Chandrika Kumaratunga
is not the candidate to win the Presidential elections and the opposition and
the western countries have got their calculations wrong. With a Sinhala vote
comprising 75% of the population Mahinda Rajapakse is bound to get 55% of the
valid vote as he is assured of some Tamil and Muslim votes as well. No candidate
would be able to reduce this vote and subsidiary common candidate would only
expose the fact that the westerners are behind him.
Chandrika Kumaratunga’s two terms as the
President expired before the eighteenth amendment and Sarath Silva has a point
if he says that the former has become disqualified. In the case of Mahinda
Rajapakse, the eighteenth amendment became law during his second term and as it
is he was not disqualified to contest a third time before the amendment was
passed. Mahinda Rajapakse’s second term as the President has not expired as he
has two more years to continue as the
President. After four years since he became the President for the second time
he can express his desire to hold Presidential elections, at which time what is
operative is the eighteenth amendment.
MRKW team perhaps without Wijedasa
Rajapakse wants the thirteenth amendment implemented completely with police and
land powers devolved to the Provincial Councils. Even Ranil Wickremesinghe has
declared that the UNP would implement the thirteenth amendment fully implying
that police and land powers would be devolved to the Provincial Councils. It is
the Northern Province provincial council, and not the others, that wants the
police and land powers and it is nothing but a demand of Tamil racism.
The Presidential elections will
determine whether the thirteenth amendment would be implemented totally or
partially. It is the politics behind the Presidential elections. The western
countries would oppose Mahinda Rajapakse as it was under his political
leadership that the LTTE, or Tamil terrorism was defeated. However Tamil
racism is not dead as it is supported by the western countries through the
dispersed Tamils in those countries. The TNA is only the mouthpiece of Tamil
racism and they are being manipulated by the western countries and the
dispersed Tamils. The so called diaspora is supposed to mean the dispersed
Tamils, with the Biblical word drawing the sympathy of the western Judaic
Christian culture towards Tamil racism.
The west encourages the Sri Lankan
government to use the word diaspora to describe the dispersed Tamils for two
reasons. Firstly it is a cover up for the western countries who are working
against the Sri Lankan government of Mahinda Rajapakse with the ultimate aim of
producing the latter before a so called international jury after removing him
from the post of President of the country. The western countries, especially
England, that created and nurtured Tamil racism hide behind the dispersed Tamils
to promote Tamil racism against not only the government of Sri Lanka but the
Sinhala people themselves.
Secondly the dispersed Tamils are not an
organisation as such and there are no office bearers. Any attack on the
dispersed Tamils is not focused and the advantage of that is for Tamil racism.
It is not difficult to defeat Tamil racism as well, the way we defeated Tamil
terrorism but we have to get our act together. We have to be clear in our
concepts and be open in attacking the western countries for maintaining Tamil
racism. The opposition will never do that and it is hoped that Mahinda
Rajapakse in his term will defeat Tamil racism as well. If the first term
defeated Tamil terrorism, the second term consolidated that defeat then the
third term will see the defeat of Tamil racism with a correct domestic policy
on development and a foreign policy on identifying the enemy and calling a
spade, a spade.
The subsidiary common candidate would be
either Ven. Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thera or Ven. Athureliye Rathana Thera with the
main function being splitting the Sinhala Buddhist vote. It is unfortunate that
the JHU, at least a faction of it, is determined to leave the government
without understanding the politics of the Presidential elections. The
government may not have fulfilled all the expectations during the second term
of Mahinda Rajapakse as the President but it was a period of consolidation of
the defeat of Tamil terrorism.
The JHU, should not be a party to
splitting the Sinhala Buddhist vote and should concentrate on the victory of
Mahinda Rajapakse so that he could defeat Tamil racism in his third term. It is
not the time for parochial politics and if the JHU is interested in preserving
the unitary state and protecting the rights of mainly the Sinhala Buddhists,
then they have no alternative but to support Mahinda Rajapakse. If they resort
to any other alternative they will only be successful in winning the wrath of
the vast majority of Sinhala Buddhists, thus guaranteeing their exit from
active politics.
Nalin De Silva
07-11-2014