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Letter of fire from CBK
Wednesday, 24 May 2006 - 4:33 AM SL Time
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The battle between President Mahinda Rajapaksa and SLFP leader Chandrika Kumaratunga took a new turn yesterday when she fired a letter to the President from London asking what mistake she had committed to grab the party leadership from her.
The dispute between the two started when the SLFP national convention was held in April despite former President Kumaratunga`s insistence that it be put off till she returned to the country.
In a hard-hitting letter Ms. Kumaratunga blamed SLFP General Secretary Maithripala Sirisena for not heeding her request. Despite her appeal, the Central Committee of the SLFP met again and agreed on a resolution to hand over the party reins to the President and sent her a letter seeking her opinion. She replied saying she needed 10 days to respond.
Finally, her reply arrived yesterday saying she felt it was not fair to agree on a resolution and seek her opinion later, while she was still the leader of the party.
Trying to drive home a point that she was not trying to hold onto the party leadership unnecessarily, Ms. Kumaratunga said she even refused the life Chairmanship that was offered to her.
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Sandman
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23 May 2006 22:11:55 GMT Report for Abuse
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The Bandaranaike's need to be taught a painful lesson, that Sri Lanka is not their personal propert, neither is our nation's political future, their prerogative.
The B'ike's have been nothing less than a curse in the overall scheme if things. They were incompetent nincompoops who the British probably thought would screwup the country totally, so that we'd have to beg them to come back and rule us again. They were correct upto a point, only we didn't go begging.
At least now that the country has passed into capable hands, it needs to stay there. The president should just ignore her letters. |
vimukth
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24 May 2006 02:52:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Correct the Father, Mother and daughter together ruled for a very long time, more than they did for the country, they just destroyed.....Today if you look at The Tamil Problem..The Old Man should take the Total Blame, introducing Sinhala as the Main Official Language in 24 Hrs time, Mother should take the Blame for the Slowing down of the Economy to nearly Zero and the Overnight Nationalisation Of All Schools, and the daughter for the final blow of destroying Everything..There is nothing to speak of anything good done by her during the 12 Years of her Rule. and the Lazy Brother for just doing nothing...only drinking and holidaying, Mainly in USA, San Diergo, Palm Springs and California most of the time of the Year. |
mageychintana
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24 May 2006 07:21:58 GMT Report for Abuse
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Vimukth,
Very true. Everyone has the tendency to blame the UNP for the current mess, but fails to look at where it originated from. |
Bonggo
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24 May 2006 08:07:49 GMT Report for Abuse
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Mageychinthana: Worng!
Not everyone blames UNP for the conutry's misfortunes. It is the disgruntled opponents who do that because they are unable to show any positive contribution on their part.
Introduction of Sinhala as the official language did not help to improve the Sinhala language at all. It only put the Sinhalese in a very disadvantaged position. If you look at the contribution to Sinhala literature, giants such as Martin Wickremasinghe, D.B. Dhanapala, Chandraratne Manavasinghe, Gunapala Malalasekera and eminent archaeolgist Senerath Paranavithana you will note they emerged during British era! Can you find anyone of similar stature now?
Also have we produced Gamini Coreas, Shirley Amarasinghes or Wickreme Weerasooriyas, Geoffrey Bawas during the post 1956 era?
These are only Non Tamil names. Tamil names unfortunately I am unaware of, can anyone list some of them?
Furthermore, our standards in Public Service and Foreign Service are so low there is no point in talking about them. I blame the 1956 policies for this sorry state of affairss |
Sandman
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24 May 2006 20:28:24 GMT Report for Abuse
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Vampire:
'Bandaranaike' is tamil in origin and Anglican in faith, not that either is relevant in a true political sense to us realists.
'Sinhala - Buddhist' is just a coat they wear out of necessity, to carry on the family business. This bunch is very much responsible for the on going anarchy, and so is the late jackal JRJ.
If you study economic history, there is an interesting episode at the closing of WW II, when the world was visibly divided among the developed and undeveloped nations, economically. However, there were just five (5) nations that did not fit into either category, since they were economically situated just below the cut off measurement to be categorised with the developed nations, but far above the rest.
Among those five, Ceylon as it was called then, was the closest to the developed category, followed by the others, which I now cannot recall. It was around this time, late 1950's to early 1960's, that Singapore's Lee Kwan Yew made his now famous political promise to 'make Singapore another Ceylon' if he is elected.
The rest is tragic history.
Lee Kwan Yew happened to Singapore, and the Bandaranaike's happened to us.
We lost.
Edited By - Sandman - 24 May 2006 20:30:17 GMT |
mageychintana
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24 May 2006 20:47:31 GMT Report for Abuse
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Bongo,
Agreed. When I said 'everyone', I meant all the anti-UNPers. If we are going to look back in time to blame someone for this mess, why not go beyond 1983. |
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