Gen (Rtd) Fonseka wants LTTE to fund his election campaign

Commits blunders and contradicts himself:

Political novice, Gen (Rtd) Sarath Fonseka making his debut in politics yesterday morning to announce his candidature for the upcoming presidential election, before the local and international media contradicted the policies of the partners in the opposition alliance sending cross currants among the newly formed alliance, brokered by UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and SLFP discard, Mangala Samaraweera, the Government Information Department website news.lk said.

The retired General who admitted that he had no knowledge of the nation’s economy and its’ operation, confessed that he had accepted the open economic policy mooted by the UNP decades ago, and would follow it upon being elected to the Office of President. Little he knew that his alliance partner,the JVP was a party fully opposed to the open economic policy of the UNP. Political analysts now raise questions whether the JVP would accept such policy of Fonseka which would affect the local industries, slash public sector employment, encourage privatization and also resort to unscrupulous methods of increasing fuel prices.

In another blunder,the General said that the people should be free to consume liquor for mental satisfaction as they wished. Intellects question whether the General, planning to be a President ,wants to turn this society into a state of drunkenness where human morals would be buried.

The worst ever confession by the General was that, he (Fonseka) would even accept funds from slain LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabakaran’s parents and other LTTE supporters to carry out his election campaign. This statement of the General was met with annoyance by the public who said that the General looked to be a part of the LTTE’s overseas conspiracy to destabilize the country. General Fonseka referring to the abolition of the executive presidency, stressed upon the two thirds majority in Parliament to execute that task in ‘practical indefinite period of time’.

This is analyzed by constitutional experts as an impossible mission where the General would never be able to meet or fulfil.”This looks to be an attempt only to grab power and a slogan to reach the masses as done by the JVP and the UNP,” observed an Expert on Constitutional affairs.

All Heads of State in the past too sincerely attempted on that move, but ended unsuccessful as the two thirds majority looked a hurdle under the present constitution.Political analysts said that Fonseka must first try to win the poll before dreaming of impossible distant dreams.

As the belief the tongue speaks the truth than the mouth, General Fonseka admitted having made many mistakes in the war front during his stewardship in the military.

At one point when journalists began to flood him with questions, the General evaded saying he was not politically experienced to answer many of them and urged the media to restrict the number of questions.