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Gamini worked for economic development of country - Navin Dissanayake

by Sigiriya group correspondent

My father late Gamini Dissanayake did not like the disenfranchisement motion being brought up against Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike. At a Cabinet meeting he vehemently spoke against the move. However he failed to get his view materialized under the collective responsibility of the Cabinet under the rule of former President J. R. Jayewardene. I say this now, because I knew this well.

This had been a rare quality of his leadership, said the Deputy Minister Navin Dissanayake at a public meeting at Hasalaka where the school Pallewatta was re-named after his father as "Gamini Dissanayake Model School.

Deputy Minister Navin Dissanayake said acquiring leadership in the Kandyan region is an affair of hardship, which his father late Gamini Dissanayake secured. He said Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike's emergence into leadership was an accidental episode, not by merit, or inborn talents, but by sympathy over the sudden demise of late S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike. However I pay my tribute to her leadership. Late Hector Kobbekaduwa had been a great leader. He too failed as he had opposition from his own side.

The next is former President D. B. Wijetunga. He had secured Presidentship, but he too failed to get this position established. But my father got his goal achieved. Mahaweli, Rantambe and Randenigala are living monuments that demonstrate his unparallel leadership, said the Deputy Minister Navin Dissanayake.

He said he was happy for naming a school in Dumbara Valley after his father. He thanked the public of Ududumbara and the Minister of Central Region Development Tissa Attanayake, another leader in the Kandyan Region who follows his father's path - for the gratitude paid his father by deciding to name this school after Gamini Dissanayake.

He assured that he, his mother, along with Tissa Attanayake, would bring this school into prominence during their lifetime and requested the School Development Society to make a development plan. Navin Dissanayake gifted a computer to mark the occasion in memory of late Gamini Dissanayake.

Minister of Central Region Development Tissa Attanayake said this is done with purity of mind. This is to honour the late Minister and to continue his service further. Late Gamini Dissanayake, like late D. S. Senanayake had a far-sighted vision. He had been a theoretician of policies and economics. At the very outset, he advocated the theory of decentralized power. He envisioned the gruesome consequences of war - which has only loosers, but no winners. But southern opposition made his views slackened. Had his visions been implemented we would have come to an early settlement with the LTTE years ago, the Minister said.

Even now - the war-mongers are superstitious. They speak about Eelam - which even Prabhakaran now rejects. There he faces problems. But the Premier has been able to get the LTTE to get them accede to a Federal form of power sharing under one sovereign. Now we have reached the stage 5 of the discussion.

Late Gamini Dissanayake too had this concept of power sharing. He believed economic growth cannot be achieved in a state of turmoil. That is why I have said, his visions will be pursued by honouring him. Finally I call upon everyone to follow the paths of our great leaders to understand where we had gone wrong. Now it is time to act wisely. Not to break further delays, but to act with restraints to achieve the final goal - the PEACE.

 

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