(Lanka-e-News -10.Jan.2016, 4.15PM)
''Nahee verena veranee – sammanthee cha kudhachanang
Awerene cha sammanthi – Esa dhammo sannaththano!''
Your excellency the dearest president Maithripala Sirisena ,
We learn through media reports that you are getting ready to address the nation on the first anniversary of the victory of the rainbow revolution of 8 th January 2015 , which victory is a consequence based on the majority of Sinhalese , Tamils , Muslims who constitute the Nation of Sri Lanka. Before you address the victorious Sri Lankan nation one year after the rainbow revolution in regard to the issues facing the nation , it is decided that you shall be assisted ahead when seeking answers to the issues , and towards this the nation has decided to address you ‘ the president of the nation’.
First and foremost let us point out to you in no uncertain trems that if you are to address the nation as ‘president’ who has completed one year in that exalted position , nothing can be more jocular than that. This is because the masses who brought about the rainbow revolution installed Ranil Wickremesinghe as the prime minister (P.M.) in much the same way as they propelled you to the post of president on the 8 th of January 2015. Hence , if you are completing one year as president , the prime minister too has completed one year as P.M.
When you left the alliance government on 21 st November 2014 after a hopper ‘clout,’ and from that time until the 8 th of January 2015 you unrelentingly and tirelessly announced loudly and proudly , ‘I shall abolish the executive presidency within 100 days ,’ meaning that when you are celebrating the completion of 365 days , not even a vestige of executive presidency shall remain that long. Sadly , that pledge is not fulfilled . Even today , it is the abominable executive presidency that is still in existence with all its villainy except that a minute fraction has been sliced off .
The main reason for this is , though you pledged solemnly to ‘abolish the executive presidency’ until the 8 th of January 2015 ,you began saying after 8th January ,‘Executive presidency’s detrimental powers only will be abolished’ instead, and when introducing the 19 th amendment you changed colors like a chameleon and talked with a double tongue. It is very unfortunate that while it was the hope and aspiration of the nation that within 100 days of the rainbow revolution the executive presidency shall be abolished , the JHU , the tooth extracting Dr. Rajitha and Nimal Siripal the then opposition leader and group serving as your ‘second slippery tongue ‘ destroyed those earnest hopes and aspirations of the people.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the nation is fully aware of your metamorphosis though you may think you have scored a victory in the game of deceit, just because you earned a round of applause from those scoundrels and rascals who you have taken into your fold after becoming the president.
Your Excellency the president Maithripala Sirisena …
Though you joined in the struggle that was staged by the opposition druing that period , that is , 6 weeks before 8 th January 2015, to abolish executive presidency and transfer the powers to parliament ; activate the independent commissions; to make the State’s basic structure including the judiciary and the public service independent and restore Democracy, this struggle in fact began as far back as 2012.
The people however are now of the view that your knowledge is ‘dead’ regarding how that struggle began since 2012 , because you are now oft repeating egotistically ‘ I did it , I did it ,‘ all the time . Therefore the masses deem it their fundamental responsibility to teach you in a nutshell what you have forgotten . When armed with this knowledge you may be able to make your ‘address to the nation’ successfully - it is hoped.
This aforementioned struggle commenced before honorable Prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe brought forward the proposal at the UNP convention for the abolition of the executive presidency.Towards this , a team of lawyers , and late Ven. Sobitha Thera separately worked with commitment even risking their lives. A powerful lawyer Dr. Jayampathy Wickremeratne of that team of lawyers is now an advisor to you ( after appointing him , you have never sought his advice- anyway ,that is another story ) . More details in this regard can be had from him,if you wish to know more . Certainly he would have told you of the secret and silent struggle he waged indefatigably in or around 2012 , travelling globally ; and going to the North and the South to meet the leaders of the Sinhala . Tamil and Muslim communities ,and media personnel. He would have also made you clearly understand that he met you at the end of the struggle and not at its beginning.
Later the team of lawyers merged with Ven Sobitha Thera and the struggle burgeoned . When Ranil Wickremesinghe got the relevant resolution adopted at the convention , the struggle became still stronger .This united struggle forged ahead because the civil organizations had implicit faith in Ranil Wickremesinghe as a rare political leader who would not go back on his word.
By Oct 27 th 2014 Ranil Wickremesinghe bowing to the wishes of the Tissa - Sajith conspirators took the stance that UNP by contesting the presidential elections alone can emerge victorious.(Bala Peraliyata Ali Balaya Relly) However , Chandrika Kumaratunge and Mangala Samaraweera convinced the UNP leadership that a reign wielding powers of five presidents cannot be toppled by the UNP alone.
It was on 31 st Oct 2014 , the discussion to have a common candidate of the common opposition was concluded and a decision taken after Chandrika Kumaratunge rushed to Sri Lanka from London. When Chandrika proposed the name of Maithripala as the common candidate , the UNP leaders turned around and questioned rightly , as Maithripala has never been in the vanguard of any struggle on behalf of Democracy, how could he be trusted? Chandrika replied she does not mistrust Maithripala. Your excellency therefore , please understand even today , in the end, the main opposition of the country trusted Chandrika’s words and not Maithripala Sirisena.
The, most pertinent question is , can the nation trust you ? When Mahinda Rajapakse went overseas , and made an unalloyed communal hate speech and returned to the Island , wasn’t it you who hugged him tightly and showed love to him even more than you would ever have when embracing Jayanthi ? How can you be trusted therefore ? When the popular tooth extractor Rajitha Senaratne who is today part of your ‘heart’ swept aside the sovereignty of the country’s laws under the carpet of Rajapkses when hearing the case to chase out former chief justice, wasn’t it you who raised the hand in favor in Parliament ? How can the people therefore repose faith in such a president ? ( if you really acted according to the dictates of your conscience , you could have without voting in favor of dismissal of the CJ , refrained from voting by getting admitted to hospital, couldn’t you?)
Moreover , following the murder of SLFP stalwart Baratha Lakshman , Thusitha Hallolouwa and Prasanna Solangarachi of the SLFP rescue movement from the period as far back as somewhere in 2012 , were gathering together SLFP leaders against the Rajapakse regime, you should by now realize you have abandoned them and taken into your embrace the pro Rajapakse SLFP group.
Do you remember the answer you gave in shock when Wijedasa Rajapkse met you and informed that UNP is ready to choose you as the common candidate depending on Chandrika’s words? ‘ Machang Raja , the capitalist party of the country has agreed to make me the president of the country …No,No, this is strange Raja’ you exclaimed in joy and hugged Wijedasa Rajapakse. If you remember this episode, you will not now say egotistically , ‘I did it , I did it.’
Try to recollect whether you spent even five cents for a plain tea to become the president? All the expenditure to make you the common candidate was met by the funds collected by the UNP and Chandrika. Did your younger brother Weliraju who died from an axe attack spend or your Rice Mill younger brother spend on your behalf ? Did Chathurika or your son in law spend who are now gobbling up public funds ? Even the meal and tea expenses of those who worked in your presidential office were defrayed by a retired Air force captain, weren’t it ? Therefore at least from today stop blabbering ‘I did it , I did it,’ because these unassailable stark facts about the rainbow revolution and its success are well known to the Sri Lankan nation, and your ego boosting gimmicks don’t carry you anywhere. .
Your excellency the president Maithripala Sirisena..,
Let the bygones end here , and permit the nation to make it clear to you that you are a defeated individual after 8 th January in the present political climate ..
One of the main tenets of Democracy is : the first referendum (people’s wishes) is abrogated by the second. In other words the final referendum becomes valid. Accordingly , the second tenet of Democracy is as follows:
On the 8 th of January, all the political parties, civil organizations , trade unions , and opposing media , the Sinhalese , Tamils , Muslims , Malays and Burghers , and the religious dignitaries of Christianity , Hindu and Islam united and made ‘Maithripala Sirisena’ victorious .
During that period , after becoming the common candidate you repeatedly said , after your victory you will be impartial and be devoid of party affiliations, because behind your victory there was no specific party , religion or race . Yet what you did were not what anyone with even a trace of grey matter would do – you acted stupidly and surreptitiously .
Even before two days had elapsed following your victory, you took over the leadership of the party that worked against you to defeat you at the election, and threw away the solemn assurance you gave that you would act sans party affiliations ,out the window into the garbage bin. A politician needs a party leadership to secure the country’s leadership.
After becoming the leader of the country , a politico needs a party leadership only to confirm himself as the leader of the country again. If he is to give that up within 100 days or 5 years , he must leave those groups who specially propelled him to victory , and take over the leadership of the groups that campaigned and worked against his victory . Certainly , it is only a politician who is mentally deranged who will tread that path.
Today while you are enjoying you have also become the despicable object of resentment and disillusionment of the people because of this mental derangement , which of course the people are aware , and which you too must know for your own good.
At the second or subsequent election of 17 th August, the people who enthroned you as the president on 8 th January 2015, separated and made you the leader of United people’s freedom alliance (UPFA) , and under a new manifesto went for elections to test the people’s referendum (wishes).
At that election you and your group were defeated by the people meaning that this sunsequent referendum abrogated the first. In other words though the people trusted you on 8 th January 2015, they did not trust you on 17 th August . It is abundantly clear at present you are vanquished. Besides , your team losing under the UPFA means that you have clearly been defeated humiliatingly.
You are president for five years because of the constitutional powers that were vested in you via the election of 8 th January. It is paramount that you understand you were defeated convincingly. In the circumstances what you ought to do is bow to the referendum of the people and give the place to the victorious team .To undermine that referendum through a united government is most deplorable and detestable. The people are fully aware of that.
Instead what you did was spat at the very referendum that elected you , and got disdainfully rejected by the people , by your taking in discarded politicos like Sumanaweera Banda who lost through the UPFA (kicked out by the people) and again foisting them among the very people.
Your utterance made often that without them you cannot carry on the govermnment is unacceptable to the people. On 21 st November after you left the UPFA government, you came out and said , the SLFP of the Bandaranaike era has to be revived . If that is so , it should be not through those people rejected corrupt Sumanaweera Bandara , Dilan and kudu Lansas ,but on the contrary it should be through clean young un- corrupt Haloluwa and Solangarachi who have come forward to rescue the SLFP party . Might we emphasize here , even if you do not know , the nation knows thoroughly , that can be done only through these youths .
Your excellency president Mathripala Sirisena …,
1. On 8 th January 2015 , the expenses incurred at the swearing in ceremony of yourself and Ranil Wickremesinghe as president and prime minister respectively of the country , was only a meager Rs. 6000.00, and you spoke about it proudly. In that case is it morally correct for you to spend even a five cent of the public funds on account of the parade of the three forces for your investiture ceremony as president ?
2. When you addressed the nation after you became the president from the Dalada Maligawa , what you asked of the people was to get accustomed to the habit of ‘giving away.’ What did you give away in that respect? Don’t the people know what you grabbed?
Employing a beautician for your cosmetic enhancement who is also to accompany you even when you travel abroad , at public expense , is to give away or to grab ? Does a man require a beautician to cut his beard or hair and apply gel or oil , comb his hair and wear the clothes ; apply some cream and dab some talcum powder on the face ? Aren’t you ashamed ?
3. Are you going to hug your son, daughter , son in law and younger brother and be attached or be detached? You criticized the Rajapakse children when they were wreaking havoc wasting public funds with security detail at their beck and call , but what are your children doing now? How are they travelling about ? Don t you feel ashamed when your own children , Daham , Chathurika , son in law Thilina are going on jaunts with 6-8 defender vehicles filled with security personnel ?
If the P.M. ‘s wife Professor Ms. Maithri Wickremesinghe can go into a bookshop even without a police officer to escort her , most unassumingly and without fuss buy a book giving her own money and go back in her own car with the driver , why is that your children in need of 6 to 8 defender vehicles filled with security personnel ?
4. After bragging and blabbering that you will not go the presidential palace , is it good governance , to annexe the adjacent official residence too to the one you already have and make it your permanent official residence spending about Rs. 800 million out of public funds ? Is this morally or ethically right ?
5. On what eligibility did your younger brother Kumarasinghe Sirisena become the Telcom (SLT ) chairman ? To a television channel you said , he did not raise his monthly salary to Rs. 10 million , but after it was proved with documents that your brother submitted a letter along with evidence in that regard , what measures did you take ? Did you poke your head between your legs and did your lying tongue protrude out , while you remained silent in shame ? or like a hero did you falsify the evidence?
6. Even now by appointing Wegapitiya a notorious accomplished rogue of the Rajapakse era against whom there is an ongoing investigation at the FCID to the SLT board of your younger brother , aren’t you trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the nation ? Wegapitiya is a shadow partner in your shady businesses ?
7. What is the pleasure you derive by taking thepeople discarded corrupt Kudu Lansa, Dilan Perera , Thilanga Sumathipala and Sumanweera Banda on to your laps ?
8. What did you or the country gain by giving appointments to those whom the people of good governance have rejected in toto and are in their list of ace villains and rascals on account of their corrupt ,crooked , perfidious , traitorous and treacherous activities , specially the following notorious scoundrels :
Appointment of Abeykoon who topped the good governance list of corrupt individuals as your secretary ; Hettiarachi a disgraceful lackey and lickspittle of Rajapkses as your defense secretary ; Shiral Lakthileke discarded by the UNP who shot himself on the main road with ulterior most self seeking motives as your co ordinating secretary; Kili Maharaja hanger on Dharma Siri, and Chamuditha Samarawickrema . A.B. Lalith Silva, and Gamini Sumanasekera who are pro Rajapakse villains to positions ,and getting them close to you.
9. Do you think by obstructing the investigations into the crimes of Rajapakses ; exerting pressures against the arrest of Rajapkses ; providing army assistance and aid to the army suspects in the Ekenliyagoda murder ; and allowing the army officer responsible for the Rathupaswala murders to go scot free , you are engaging in state diplomacy and making intelligent moves ?
10. As minister of environment ,do you think by remaining mum , pertaining to the Wilpattu issue, and in regard to the pollution caused to the land and water of Sri Lanka by the release of toxic waste into them by Jiffy , the Norwegian Co., you are protecting the environment ?
Though there are many more questions to be asked by the nation , for the moment , let us stop at this.
On 8 th January when you polled 5.8 million votes at the elections , the number of regular viewers of Lanka e news website was 2.7 million.Among them 80 % access the news website four times a day.Hence , the fans of Lanka e news who were directly connected to your Rainbow revolution victory on 8 th January are 50 % shareholders of your victory. In the circumstances , your giving answers or refraining therefrom to the questions posed by the people of the pro good governance when you are addressing the nation , has to be decided by you.
Perhaps, in your actions there may have been a positive approach to chase out the Rajapakse regime and in your subsequent actions , but what a state leader should adhere to is only to that approach and none else. Please do not be hurt because what had been spoken is about non filfillment of the aspirations what the nation alias the people earnestly hoped for.
Thanks
May the triple gem bless you !
Please view the video here to remind you of the address made by you at the inaugural rally , lest you have forgotten what you said in the past
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Well written, well presented and well done. Keep up the good work. Keep the fellow on his toes.
-- by Psycho on 2016-01-11
