(Lanka-e-News - 22.Sep.2015, 5.30PM) Maithripala Sirisena who was languishing in Polonnaruwa was made the president of the country on the votes of the people , not for him to rapaciously lick and eat as he wished assuming that was offered to him on the platter. Rather , for him to fulfill the responsibilities and discharge his duties towards the people. Firstly, to abolish the obnoxious executive presidency. Secondly , arrest and punish the culprits and the corrupt who are ruining the very fabric of society and the country as a whole.
Dealing sternly with ethanol and heroin dealers specially , and all crooks and corrupt individuals generally from the very top to the bottom, irrespective of rank and status for the greater good of the entire nation; establishing racial amity, and continuing with good governance were among the objectives .
Sadly , to everyone’s dismay his stance and objectives seem to have undergone a change .
While professing that the aim is to establish good governance, and claiming that the SLFP party should be strengthened from within , individuals who were rejected not only by the defeated but also by the victorious people , were invited and offered ministerial portfolios by Maithripala which was absolutely in non -conformity with the aspirations of the people. Among those so benefited were ,most despised and detested ethanol dealers , heroin peddlers , bookmakers and social outcasts.
The people are putting up with these most despicable and repugnant measures taken with great pain of mind. This is simply because they hope , the communal harmony that could not be achieved hitherto after the country won the independence, perhaps can be accomplished by somehow securing a two third majority in parliament to pass a constitution geared to national development .
This patience and tolerance shown by the people should not be construed as an approval given by them that the president is right. If it is the contention that the support of ethanol dealers , heroin peddlers , bookmakers , corrupt and crooked individuals are needed to reinforce the party from within , then Mahinda Rajapakse who was thrown out lock, stock and barrel by the people also did no wrong.
Under this climate which is fostering all the evils , vices and destructive trends , and owing to ministerial portfolios being given to all these corrupt , crooked , evil and sinister characters by Maithripala , like how flies swarm around feces and garbage bins , the Rajapakse era counterparts are now getting drawn to this vicious and stinking ring. The recent inauguration of a filling station at Chilaw illustrates this point.
It was the most infamous Arundhika Fernando and notorious ethanol dealer , now made a minister by Maithri who attended this event .Shamelessly ,with him was extortionist Sarana ,and uncouth uncivilized Ananda Sarath who forced a teacher of a school to kneel down before him. The photograph herein tells the whole story.
By the time Maithripala learns the lesson that he cannot in collaboration with crooks , criminals , and the corrupt, carry on a government of good governance , let alone cleansing his party, the people would have given him the verdict worse than that delivered by the people on Mahinda Rajapakse -borrowing Maithripala’s own words , one cannot conceal one’s sins simply by covering it.
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