(Lanka-e-News- 12.March.2015, 3.15PMM) The SLFP and opposition leader Nimal Siripala De Silva is making every desperate and diabolic attempt to sabotage the mandate given by the people to President Maithripala Sirisena on the 8 th of January 2015 to abolish the executive presidency, by imposing unnecessary conditions against the abolition despite the fact that Maithripala Sirisena is the president of Nimal Siripala’s own party , the SLFP.
Nimal Siripala addressing a media briefing today said , if the proposed amendment to the constitution is going to be tabled as an emergency bill , it will not be supported , while adding that if the UNP has an urgency to abolish the executive presidency , this proposal shall be discussed at a public forum. Nimal Siripala recalling the no confidence motion that was attempted against minister John Amaratunge to prove the majority power ,which motion in fact was later put aside , said , this minister is effecting transfers of police officers without the knowledge of the IGP, and hence he should be removed from his portfolio.
It is not that Nimala Siripala does not know that the manifesto of the newly installed government clearly indicates that it shall implement the amendment to the constitution within its 100 days program , and that , discussions in public pertaining to the relevant proposed draft bill have also been concluded. Yet Nimal Siripala the notorious renegade who had all along demonstrated his mental instability and hanky panky in keeping with the obvious inverse relationship that exists between his brawn and brain power, is again seeking dubious hole and corner methods to give vent to his cut throat policies and treacherous political conspiracies to the detriment of national interests.
Needless to mention ,it is individuals like empty dumpty Nimal Siripala who earlier on made the biggest contributions to ex president Mahinda’s debacle too ,who finally had to suffer a fall worse than that of Humpty Dumpty . Obviously Nimal Siripala’s charges leveled against John Amaratunge today are untenable in the backdrop of the huge public outcry demanding that the police officers who committed wrongs under the previous Rajapaakse regime shall be punished.
Nimal Siripala who attended the constitutional committee meeting of party leaders at the parliament today , said the abolition of the executive presidency powers shall be done simultaneously with the constitutional reforms , and that in any event they will not support the UNP. Naturally , Vijitha Herath M.P. representing the JVP , and Sumanthiran M.P. of the TNA vehemently opposed his stance.
It is very unfortunate that this country is at present having an opposition leader whose stupidity is so acute that he does not know, the obnoxious executive presidency that is deleterious to the country and the nation is not a product of the election system.
When the prime minister held a discussion yesterday after inviting the party leaders and the elections commissioner , the latter ,Mahinda Deshapriya explained at length , if the new amendments to the election system are to reviewed , it will take at least 3 months ,working full time for ten hours a day for a commission if it is appointed. From this it can be deduced what are the dastardly aims and objectives hidden in the conditions imposed by Nimal Siripala.
It is manifest therefore Nimal Siripala like how he was trying to obstruct John Amaratunge , this empty Dumpy is seeking to undermine the minority government’s programs with a view to delay the elections by three months, because he knows very well that if elections are decided as scheduled on 23 rd April based on the people’s mandate , his SLFP party will face a most humiliating defeat .
It is only the most obtuse will believe that the leader of the SLFP Maithripala Sirisena is also not behind these maneuvers of Nimal Siripala , for , if after the former having become the SLFP leader , the party loses at the elections and the seats are reduced , it will be an insult to Maithripala - the latter perhaps is thinking on those lines.
It is also perplexing why the president who was over enthusiastic prior to January 8 th, and loudly announced that until the executive presidency is abolished within the 100 days he will not sight the presidential palace , is unable to open his mouth now as the leader of the SLFP against the enunciations of Nimal Siripala that he will not allow the abolition of executive presidency.
All know , Maithripala gave a solemn promise that after Mahinda Rajapakse met his waterloo, he would act neutrally and be politically white without favoring any party , and that the leadership of the SLFP will be granted to Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge , has by now repudiated those solemn assurances.
In the circumstances, It is best before it is too late, if Maithripala who is in a deep quandary entangled and enmeshed in a ‘puppet on a string’ drama , realizes doom and gloom is looming over him ominously when he is acting the way he is doing now, having forgotten who were responsible to steer him to his victory at the presidential elections. The descent is always easier than the ascent , and it is an universally acknowledged fact that there are many to help in one’s descent but only a few can help in one’s ascent.
Meanwhile , it was decided at the UNP working committee meeting that the people’s mandate was received to abolish the executive presidency within 100 days , and to go for parliamentary elections after dissolving parliament on 23 rd April. Of course ,it is best if the electoral reforms can be implemented , the executive presidency is also abolished within the 100 days program, and elections held thereafter.
However , since the elections commissioner says 3 months are needed to change the electoral system , it is the decision of the UNP working committee that the constitutional amendment to abolish executive presidency be given effect to , and elections held after dissolving parliament on 23 rd April. Accordingly ,the draft of the proposed 19 th constitutional amendment is to be presented to the Cabinet on 12th .
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