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Maheswaran silenced, tears emergency regulations
Thursday, 22 September 2005 - 4:14 AM SL Time
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UNP Jaffna district MP T. Maheswaran caused uproar in parliament yesterday when repeatedly obstructed from expressing his views on the state of emergency now in force.
Mr. Maheswaran raised a point of order after Deputy Defence Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake presented the Emergency regulations in the House, but was not permitted to speak by Speaker W. J. M. Lokubandara.
The Speaker demanded from Mr. Maheswaran to cite the clause of the Standing Orders under which he raised the point of order. However the UNP parliamentarian said he had informed the Speaker that he would express his views in the morning about the various incidents of harassment faced by the Tamil people under emergency regulations.
At this point JVP parliamentary group leader Wimal Weerawansa said the JVP would allocate five minutes of their time to accommodate Mr. Maheswaran`s views. However Chief Opposition Whip Mahinda Samarasinghe said the UNP did not need time granted to them from other parties.
He said the UNP had presented its list of speakers to Mr. Lokubandara.
Mr. Maheswaran however continued to insist that his right had been violated in not being allowed to speak and then he marched down to the well of the House and tore up copies of the emergency regulations and the police report in front of Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake.
The Opposition Whip said that notwithstanding MP Maheswaran having torn the regulations the UNP had decided to extend conditional support for the extension of emergency regulations.
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Pera
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22 Sep 2005 02:05:51 GMT Report for Abuse
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Mr Kerosene Maheswaran was silenced by 'Buddhist' WJM Lokubanda! UNP is starting to show its true colours to wards minorities and secularism.
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22 Sep 2005 04:10:45 GMT Report for Abuse
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And some are talking about Equal rights and NO special rights and also questioning the validity of the notion Majority and minority rights.
I knew that the cat will come out of the bag one day.
It has happened now. |
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22 Sep 2005 04:15:02 GMT Report for Abuse
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Mr Fairplay,
I suppose you are blaming Mr Speaker (he is the one who did that), not me (I have nothing to do with Mr Maheswaran).
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ajan
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22 Sep 2005 09:11:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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Government can continue with emergency regulations, i guess what people will do next is kick the army out of north east by any means.( poisen them, burn them etc) peoples patiens running as ice thin.
when it comes to hurt tamils UNP ,slfp,JHU,JVP all are same. |
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22 Sep 2005 09:18:10 GMT Report for Abuse
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Well done Lokubandara...you should have taken more tuff actions against this idiot maheshwaran who always behave like an animal in the parliment...
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22 Sep 2005 13:25:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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I have made my comments about equal rights and special rights and I stand by my comments. I would like to apply the same comments to this incident.
UNP would have submitted (and they should) their list of parliamentarians to the speaker. MP Maheswaran should have requested his name to be included. Whether he indeed did, whether the request was rejected etc is not known.
The list was finalized and given to the speaker. There is a protocol to be maintained in the parliament and Mr. maheswaran should know that.
Now this is where my query about equal rights and special rights come in.
Should the speaker give MP Maheswaran a special right, break the procedures, give him some time allocation just because he is minority? Shouldnt he be treated the same way as other MPs from the majority? Didnt he decline Sinhalease MPS when they wanted to speak but their name was not amongst the list of speakers? hasnt he repremanded sinhalease MPs for breaking parliamentary procedures?
Why is MP Maheswaran so special that the parliament and the speaker has to bend the laws and hear the man? Why does MP Maheswaran think the speaker should break the procedures? What makes him think that he can go to the parliament well and tear away papers and behave like a common thug?
Does he realize his behaviour closely resembles with that thug Mervin Silva who did similar antics at the parliament? Does he realize he is representing people who voted for him not he himself and the family? Does he realise he is insulting his own constituency not the speaker or even the president?
Why can not he learn from Mr. Sampanthan of TNA who could deliver a speech in a decent manner condemning the emergency? Why does he think his shameful behaviour would help Tamils?
Here are my thoughts. Why should the speaker give MP Maheswaran special rights to speak when there were brilliant speakers such as Mr. Sampanthan have already expressed their opposition?
Equal rights MP Maheswaran. You dont have special rights to barge in and give your view in the parliament when your name is not there. Sure you have a view point. Express that sir, in a different forum or indeed in the parliament when you have been given time?
oh by the way sir, expresss those views more like a gentleman, not like a common thug. After all we were all condemning Mervin Silva werent we? We dont need TWO Mervin Silvas, do we? |
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22 Sep 2005 13:47:18 GMT Report for Abuse
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I have a query to those who know more about SL politics.
If I remember correct, MP Maheswaran was shot at by the LTTE when he was in Colombo. This incident caused him considerable embarrassment because he was going around boasting about his 'links' to the LTTE. He was maintaining a low profile after the incident as his so called 'links' did not even issue a statement about his misfortune. In fact LTTE has repeatedly stated it is the TNA not the likes of MP Maheswaran that it backs.
I think MP Maheswaran is just being a politician. He is getting ready for the election. After all his so called 'links' wont give him the ticket from TNA. He has to get it from the UNP. But of course he has to get Jaffna votes. Of course this is how MP Maheswaran's idea of canvassing.
Hope some decent member from the Tamil community (and there are many still in SL) gives him some sound advice. Behavior in the parliament is considerably different and it has to be different from his usual behaviour.
Can somebody explain to me please what is the difference between MP Maheswaran and Mervin Silva?
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22 Sep 2005 17:29:03 GMT Report for Abuse
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UNP failed Maheswaran.
Maheswaran is the Tamil representative of Northern UNP.
TNA is an Independant representative of Northern Tamils similarly the Muslim Congress although there are spineless muslim Ministers and MP's in the ruling government.
Mahewaran's views and arguments on the Emergency law could and would be different from TNA.
As the single Tamil MP from UNP Jaffna, he should have been given his rightful representation and the UNP failed in giving him the due recognition.
This is food for thought for the Tamils as how they are treated; still being a representative in a moderate national party.
Equal rights is a joke when there is NO room for Tolerance in the hearts and minds of our countrymen except on natural emergencies.
Tolerance begins with studying and appreciating our differences and then learning to embrace others.
The majority should either learn what is Tolerance or they should be taught what is Tolerance.
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22 Sep 2005 23:24:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hi guys
gosl is running for world recod?regarding emergency regulation see the world record
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