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Like Prabhakaran’s mafia operations, a small group is presently holding the nation to ransom: We shall break the fetters and march forward – Champika Ranawake

(Lanka-e-news- 20.Nov.2014, 11.55PM) ‘To the Sinhalese embedded in the Sinha bahu ancestry , we say , today we have broken the fetters. Now rally around us in our national journey forward,’ the general secretary of the JHU , Champika Ranawake who resigned from all his positions he held in the UPFA, and his ministerial portfolio addressing a special media briefing today said, at the meeting of the JHU central committee meeting held yesterday , based on a unanimous decision taken by the JHU central committee , Cabinet Minister Champika Ranawake and western provincial council Minister Udaya Gammanpila resigned from their ministerial portfolios. This media briefing was convened today to make known that they have withdrawn from all the agreements they signed with the UPFA.

Champika while making this announcement said, in 2005 , in front of Dalada maligawa an agreement was signed with Mahinda Rajapakse , when he was the Prime Minister , and under section 7 of that agreement , Mahinda Rajapakse promised to amend the constitution to make executive Presidency answerable to the Parliament. This was incorporated in the Mahinda chinthana ,and in 2010, under the ‘Mahinda chinthana idhiri dhekma,’ it was promised that the executive Presidency will be made responsible to Parliament, Champika further noted.

JHU is today not asking to abolish the executive Presidency , but only demanding to introduce constitutional amendments to withdraw the despotic powers of the executive Presidency. This is not a new demand , it is as old as ten years , Champika asserted. Champika also went on to say they will support a common program which the JHU can accept.

Following the discussions held with the SLFP , the views of the latter were communicated to the JHU in writing , but the JHU is unable to concur with them , Champika observed. Since this stance in writing has not been publicized by the other party , the JHU is also not expecting to reveal it at the moment, he pointed out.

By resigning from the Ministerial posts they have launched on a humanitarian operation ,Champika said and went on to elaborate as follows :

When Prabhakaran after the Mavil aru operation , went to Nandikadal he betrayed his people in order to bail himself out . That Mafia group, that junta , those racists indulged in destructive racism. Today too , unfortunately a small group has after capturing power trampling the national aspirations of the majority and carrying on the reign riding roughshod on people’s aspirations . We are today launching the humanitarian operation to rescue the entire nation from this group.

With the commencement of this humanitarian campaign , we are facing various threats , accusations , attacks and pressures , but our lay monks are not frightened of them. As in the past how they worked with readiness to sacrifice their lives, so we shall forge ahead bravely.

To the Sinhalese embedded in the Sinha bahu ancestry , we say , today we have broken the fetters .Hence , in conclusion he urged everyone to join with the JHU in their onward march.

Ven. Omalpe Sobitha Thera , Ven. Rathane Thera , former western provincial council Minister Udaya Gammanpila also attended the media discussion . Their speeches shall be reported separately .

It is worthy of note , Udaya Gammanpila attended the meeting after arriving from the hospital during the interim period before surgery was to be performed on him. He had come for the meeting during the several hours of fasting he had to observe before the operation, and was therefore in acute suffering.

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