(Lanka-e-News- 17.Feb.2015, 11.55PM) The SLFP youth organization will no longer be functioning as Nil Balakaya , and its name will be scrapped , said the new SLFP national organizer of the party Susil Premajayantha. Recently when new appointments were made within the SLFP, Shantha Bandara M.P. and Eric Weerawardena were appointed as the President and secretary respectively of the youth organization of the party.
Earlier , it was Namal Rajapakse the notorious synthetic lawyer against whom charges are mounted that he passed the law final exam by fraudulent means was the youth organization leader .The name ‘Nil Blakaya’ too is a name introduced by Namal via a robbery.
Hereunder is the story as tof how the Nil Balakaya originated…
During the period , when Mangala Samaraweera was the minister of Ports , it was Prasanna Kalutarage who was the secretary of the SLFP trade union , of Ports authority . That was the time the war had erupted again. Prasanna brought forward a proposal before the union committee , every Poya day of the month they should go to the bordering villages and build security bunkers out of the steel and wood that are discarded at the Port.
This proposal was accepted by the committee and even Mangala Samaraweera’s consent was given.
On the first occasion , the villages bordering Polonnaruwa were visited , and bunkers were built.
Subsequently more joined in this as a welfare project. Thereafter this project was extended to use the steel cables discarded by the cranes in the Port to make suspension bridges for the people living in difficult areas . Such bridges were built for the people in most difficult areas in Badulla.
With more groups joining in this project , it became necessary to give this a small publicity , towards which Prasanna Kalutarage had need to produce a poster . Prasanna at that time met the editor of Lanka e news , Sandaruwan Senadheera , a friend of his at latter’s publicity office at Rajagiriya . When the name of the trade union was to be mentioned as the producer of the poster it became an issue , because there were many outsiders too rendering assistance.
The name proposed by the Lanka e news editor was , Nil Balakaya . Prasanna and others too agreed with this name. Though this Nil Balakaya commenced as a voluntary movement providing facilities to the people in remote areas, it was not registered .
Later, when Mangala Samaraweera rejected his ministry portfolio and the Rajapakses , and crossed over to the opposition , the Rajapakses robbed this name Nil Balakaya and that group ,and made it into a corrupt vile force for the most nefarious and obnoxious purpose -to boost the image of Namal Rajapakse , the counterfeit lawyer alias black coated shark.
Prasanna Kalutarage and his group who toiled so much was finally chased away from the trade union.
It can be fathomed to what extent this name under Kalutarage took root in the hearts of the people , when considering the fact that even UNP later used the name ‘Green Balakaya’ to launch a youth organization.
In the circumstances , now ,it is well for the people to probe , hereafter ,if the SLFP youth organization is to discontinue in the name of Nil Balakaya , whether it should be rightly given back to its founder so that it can resume its welfare activities as a movement serving the people as before
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