UNP-JVP and General Fonseka in a limbo, so far
Dr.P.A.Samaraweera, Australia
On Monday 23rd, the President had sent a proclamation to the Commissioner of Elections to seek a fresh mandate. And this was a much awaited declaration for the Opposition Front.
Then on Tuesday, there were reports that the dispute between the UNP and JVP over the condition that Ranil take over as Prime Minister in a caretaker government had been resolved.
But the same day, the JVP spokesman, MP., Anura Dissanayake speaking at a press conference had said, that his party has no dealings with the UNP and the report that the JVP had come to an understanding with the UNP on the above issue is a blatant lie.
According to him, talks between the UNP and JVP had collapsed on this issue.
On the other hand, we have the General who had not openly made a statement about his intentions on the Presidential elections, except his hints here and there.
May be he is hesitant because the teams in the opposition front looks at each other with suspicion, the UNP at the General, the JVP at the UNP, UNP at the JVP and so on.
Then we have the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress and the Mano Ganeshan team keeping their options.
Therefore, the opposition front is going in circles.
So there seems to be confusion in the opposition teams as they don't seem to trust each other.
The grievance of the opposition was that the President had not decided on a date for the Presidential elections. But now that a date had been fixed the problem with them seems to be that they have no candidate and therefore they are on a wild goose chase.
In the midst of this confusion, the Asian Tribune published a Report about Gen. Fonseka and his son-in-law, Danuna Tilakeratne, involved in 'Blood Money' from tenders to the armed services and therefore the people who elevated him to a 'super hero' has now lost confidence in him.
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Dr. Samaraweera is making a
Dr. Samaraweera is making a point. The other day I was watching the latest ‘Rathu-Ira’ where the opposition MP was trying to paint a ‘Bodhisatva’ on JRJ. He was suggesting MR has reduced the parliament to nothing and the intention of JRJ was to create a very powerful legislature. None of the listeners posed questions did ask how did JRJ got undated letters of resignations from MPs during his time, and also introduced legislation to overturn Supreme Court decision to strip fundamental rights of Mrs. B. It is JRJ who made a mockery of democracy and parliamentary system of governance. While securing his infamous ¾ seats in parliament with less than 50% of the votes, he introduced a constitution which needs 75% of the votes to make any amendments because of proportional representation glued to it. Ranil, Athulathmudali, Gamini , Premadasa were other architects of this piece of shit. The very guys created a constitution for themselves, and when it went to someone else suddenly it become a bad constitution. These members of UNP I wonder whether they are talking through their hind side. They have no right to talk about the constitution which they themselves created without any consensus from the opposition parties of the day.
Then about this Bogus General, I could remember listening to him on ‘Thulawa’ where categorically mentioning that he has no political ambitions as late as in May this year. However, after the defeat of LTTE, this man because too cocky. He did not have the decency to share the effort with other service commanders. He was never pushed away by the government, but he resigned on his own. What choices government had with a person like this? Even he is now crying foul about vacating his official residence and his security contingent. What is the security did he provide to ‘Janaka Perera’ or his own Chief of Staff ‘Parami Kulathunge’? I feel sick in my stomach when people trying to portray SF as a great man. Any fool could have defeated the LTTE if backed by clever political leadership. With less than 1/10 of the Army, Kobbekauwe could have terminated LTTE if JRJ did not buckle at Vadamarachchi.
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