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Sri Lanka president-elect drops running mate from prime minister job
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Gaja
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 19 Nov 2005 00:29:42 GMT Report for Abuse
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Dear Christy,
I see value in your post. However, I feel that JVP has had enough political wisdom to team up with a major party. LTTE might develop its own through partnership with overseas politicians - both Tamil and non-Tamil. Those who see value in their work, will voluntarily offer their partnership.
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 19 Nov 2005 01:40:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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My dear friends,
Appointing the PM is not going to be an easy task for Mr.President. He may or may not appoint Anura. However Anura does not qualify to this position for he politically attacked Mahinda than supporting him. But Anura's nor anybody's intelligence doesn't count to become the PM in SL.
For that matter nothing counts or is reckoned to become the President except you are a Sinhala Buddhist which Percy Mahendran Tamil Catholic achieved today. Percy Mahendran is the other Lakshman Kadirgamar of Sri Lanka.
Percy Mahendran may be a visionless man politically.But where as his ASPIRATIONS are concerned he knew what he has to do. He could not have education and association in the higher echelons of Colombo's Cinnamon Gardens, but he knew and planned very well and executed his plans to attain the most coveted and powerful position in our country.
Mr.Premadasa earned the position and Mahinda devised a plan to reach the position.
Mahinda may not be qualified in terms of Professionally managing the nation. He knows one thing very well. That is
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT.
Mahinda from my analysis will delegate authority in the administrative areas of his government to professionals and
associate them with the political hounds sitting around him, i.e JVP/JHU.
Mahinda will handle the LTTE on a softer pedal; knowing the strength of the other side which is the weakest link that ensures his strength to prevail the next 6 years.
Mahinda will not be able to keep whatever the big or bigger promises he made to JVP/JHU within the the next 3 years. However he would incline towards the end of his term.
Mahinda's best solution will be to enhance the Status quo with LTTE than aggravate.
Many of us will see this man's abilities in CONFLICT MANAGEMENT than professional administration of the country.
In closing I would say that Politicians are living on ethnic issues than developing the country and providing an acceptable quality of life to the poor and gullibles of my country.
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 19 Nov 2005 01:48:28 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Mr Oopse : The way you determine your political affiliations seems to be, at best, very shallow. In my own case, a party political supporter's regularity of bathing, class or upbringing would not influence my choice for leadership in any way, shape, or form. It should be a simple question of trust. In an ideal world, at the point of casting his/her vote every person should ask the question 'Who will be the best for everyone in the country?'. You then can place your tick/cross in the box with a clear conscience. |
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19 Nov 2005 02:05:20 GMT Report for Abuse
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OOPSE,
You are displaying your true nature. All your friends may be Tamil. But there is a deeper connection due to the common pain that we have experienced. That connects us automatically. Until you feel that pain as if it were yours, you would not relate to Tamils intuitively - but only through logic.
As for me converting personal animosity into ethnic conflict - there was no need to convert. I was showing up what already existed in your mind. You felt superior to me and hence your statements about not reading my communication.
As for shutting up - who are you to ask me to shut up. I enjoy freedom of speech as per God's system of Natural Justice. The Truth I feel must be spoken to benefit many.
As per the system of democracy - if you do not like to talk to or listen to someone - you need to keep your distance from them and not ask them to shut up. Did they not teach you these simple basics in your system?
Gaja
Edited By - Gaja - 19 Nov 2005 02:09:05 GMT |
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 19 Nov 2005 02:34:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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Pera:
You said 'PS: We should invite Anizam and some other Ranil saranam gachchami people too'
My friend im glad to see your having a cheap thrill... :) like you always do. Its ok, have fun cos its not going to last long. Obviously you have not yet understood Why prabakaran went out of his way to ensure a Mahinda victory and the reprecussions that are in store for you... I know its no point me saying anything here RIGHT NOW, because its too EARLY. However, i suggest, you read some of the editorial that and analysis done on the consequences of this elections, that are being written by some well respected people - Actually dont bother - cos you will not understand it YET....
But remember, from the time i first met you on this forum the ONE thing i have been telling you is - this election is WIN-WIN for the UNP...just remember that cos in a few months time i will remind you of that again.
Thanks for the invite to join Mahinda and co - but NO thanks. I dont join BRAINLESS VISIONLESS baffoons. :) :)
In the mean time im just waiting to see Mahinda do the following..
1. Abolish the CFA and negotiate a new one.
2. Stop the killing of all intelligence operatives.
3. Send the Salmon eating Norwegians home.
4. Mahinda go the 'extra mile' and talk to Prabakaran himself.
5. Cancel the PTOMS
6. And lets not forget that Marisakullam camp which was a GRAVE threat to Trinco harbour.
And last but not least - Print money to give all those promises they gave you... :) :) :) - remember the 1300 you were so happy about?? :) :)
All this time the excuse was that CBK did not let Mahinda the JVP do what they want to cos Mahinda was ONLY the PM. Now he is President - I wonder what excuse its going to be. Actually i saw that guy popey has already come up with an excuse - rich businessman WILL obstruct Mahinda.
Now lets give Mahinda a chance to do what he said he was going to do and we will see what happens...
:) :)
PS: ask Mahinda to appoint Somawansa as PM because in all fairness, it was the JVP and the LTTE that made Mahinda the President... :)
PPS: Do you know how POWERFUL i am????? :) :).. One of your friends is saying that I AM the one who Made him a Mahinda supporter.. See the influence i have on people :) :) - Was i the one who made you a Mahinda supporter also????
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19 Nov 2005 02:54:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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(Mahinda may not be qualified in terms of Professionally managing the nation. He knows one thing very well. That is
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT.
Mahinda from my analysis will delegate authority in the administrative areas of his government to professionals and
associate them with the political hounds sitting around him, i.e JVP/JHU.)
Fairplay:
You are more of an optimist than I am and I commend you for that. Granted that Mahinda is a very shrewd operator with excellent survival skills - just look how he manoeuvred himself to be the candidate and then the president. But are his skills good enough beyond the rough and tumble of SL politics; good enough to run a country in this day and age? Where are the professionals you talk about whom he can hand over to? All the professionals (who should know better) are either corrupt or politicised beyond redemption - only one left, may be the election commissioner and he is retiring.
I have a more pessimistic view. I think things work in cycles and this is 1956 revisited. A man rides into power (thankfully not with such a big mandate - although in the old electoral system he would have still won most of the seats in the south) with unrealistic promises and expectations, people get disenchanted and get eliminated ( physically or politically) by their own-hand. A chronicle of a death foretold!
Edited By - hellogoodbye - 19 Nov 2005 03:00:15 G |
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19 Nov 2005 03:08:51 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hellogoodbye : I think it is generally accepted by all clear thinking people of the country that the Sinhala Only Act was probably the most internal self-destructive action of any nation's leadership since Nero ordered the burning of Rome. I tend to think, and I sincerely hope, that 'return to '56' was a simple election ploy by the new President. I think the majority of those in government appreciate this and also realise the dangers of attempting to put into practice what they have been preachng for the last few months. It doesn't matter any more whether they live up to promises or not...the election has been won and will stay won for the next six years.
Edited By - john54 - 19 Nov 2005 03:16:47 GMT |
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19 Nov 2005 03:35:44 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hellogoodbye,
[You are more of an optimist than I am and I commend you for that. Granted that Mahinda is a very shrewd operator with excellent survival skills - just look how he manoeuvred himself to be the candidate and then the president]
We get a chance to share our thoughts again. Thank you for your response. Mahinda is definitely a shrewd Operator with excellent survival skills and one of those being when he behaved DUMB during P-Toms negotiations.
As for professionals, I wish to mention that he already gave life to a trend that he is bound to adopt by recruiting his own brother Lt.Col. Gothabaya. For a US lifestyled man the money he offered was meagre. Now that he is the BOSS Mahinda will remunerate him adequately and promote him probaly as the Minister of Defence or in a Consultant's position that will qualify him to earn the millions of rupees to the equivalent US standards.
Many professionals who are living abroad will be coerced by him with appropriate remuneration to serve in senior administrative positions. Mahinda does not want to show that he is a failure at the highest office in SL.
He will want to live by his aspirations than service to the nation. Living by his aspirations would benefit the administration of the nation than development of the country. Mahinda will spend the millions and billions of rupees on his status quo than on a useless war with LTTE.
Mahinda will go the extra mile to introduce and reinforce his relationship with Prabhakaran. Mahinda's survival skills from political and non political arena is to be displayed from now on.
Mahinda can be seen like Mr.Premadasa but heard.
I have a strong feeling that he will appoint Jeyaraj Fernandopulle as the PM and Mangala as the FM, the relative of Prabhakaran as he claimed few days ago.
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Patrioticson,
Thank you for posting the letter for every body to read. Who ever had written that was indeed a genuine Sri Lankan. Unfortunately the message do not go beyond the person whom it was sent. Political leaders, community leaders, and religious leaders do not have the sincerity to speak the truth and educate people. Successive governments had failed to implement Tamil as an official language when the legislature had passed the bill almost two decades ago. At present Tamils as I understand had given up demanding Tamil language be implemented as an official language since they do have an agenda of a federal state instead.
I do not hesitate to say that we the Singhalese Buddhist Majority had not taken any constructive step to build the broken bridge between our two communities other than signing a CFA with LTTE. Even The bridge that existed between the two communities, Christianity and Catholicism, for 4 centuries is being harassed by us the Buddhist majority with a preposterous and exaggerated claim that voluntary conversion of a small fraction of the poor for material gains and the proselytism carried out by evangelists hurt Buddhism the greatest Doctrine instrumental in building a unique civilization of Singhalese in Sri Lanka. Confused with mytho-history and ignorance , the religious leaders of Singhalese Buddhists, further pushed the two communities apart polarizing them fanning the fire each time a realistic issue of Language , ethnicity, majority and the minority rights were cunningly manipulated by power hungry politicians . Could this presidential election change the attitude of them ? I doubt. |
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 19 Nov 2005 03:39:56 GMT Report for Abuse
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Dear Oopse,
Thank you. I may disagree with you but respect the fact that everyone of us has a right of opinion and we should appreciate that. It also gives us an opportunity to underatnd the otherside and other views.
Let me in the outset say this: I had the opportunity of meeting both Mahinda & Ranil. I should sincerely say that as an individual I like Mahinda than Ranil. He is a nice person and a good listener. Personally I am not an opponent of Mahinda. When it comes to leadeership style and capability I have different views.
We all look at things differently and have different opinions. Similarly each political leader may have the same opinion but differ in their approcah to resolve it. Mahinda & Ranil say they both are not for WAR & want to resolve the ethnic problem peacefully. They both want to uplift the livelihood of the common man.
Who is right or wrong only time will tell. For Mahinda it will be very fast; may be six months to one year.
As for my knowledge about ground situation in Sri Lanka, I may be, in your opinion, out of touch but I can only say that I live very close to reality if not in the middle of it in Sri Lanka.
We have seen how the Minister of Finance and Minister of Power & Energy were trying to reform the white elephant CEB and JVP the partner scuttled it. Even a strong President could not do anything. Result is: as taxpayers we are financing a lossmaking organization and paying the highest electricity rate in the region and it will go up further.
There are many instances like these.
Now with Mahinda it will get even worse as he has committed against any privatization. But he has said he will make CEB efficient.
How?
I am sure he has a vague idea.
He has promised not to privatize any organization to raise money but he would increase the subsidy for fertilizer and give it at Rs 350. How?
Sure he has a vague idea.
He wants to renegotiate the CFA. How? He says he will talk to Prabaharn.
That sounds vague too.
He wanted to include his 'wishful thinking' mahinda chinthanaya into the 2006 budget but Finance refused as they were of the opinion they can't finnace the budget. Now he has the power he has to find money to deliver his promise. Most likely he will forget about the promises.
Or sure he has a vague idea.
We are all going to live in a vagueland. Perhaps many of the guys contributing to this forum do not need to worry.
Living in comfortable and high standard of living countries, some are preaching about unitary and attachement to our history and expecting the people to sacrifice economic well being for emotional attachments.
It is easily said and done when you don't need to do it.
Thanks
Edited By - Christy - 19 Nov 2005 04:22:11 GMT |
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