Stable Govt for comprehensive development

Human Rights and Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe:

Although there had been speculation from time to time, about various shortcomings, no one has yet shown or proven substantially that there were violations by our Armed Forces. So far, we have answered the speculative allegations concerning war crime charges raised against Sri Lanka by various elements locally and internationally, in a comprehensive and successful manner.

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People’s gratitude and ‘Suba Anagathayak’

The THIRD EYE - Political Perspectives

‘I am fortunate to be the leader of a country of fathers, mothers, and children who know the value of gratitude.’ That is how President Rajapaksa referred to the new mandate he received, during the course of his independent day speech. The question however is: was this statement a courtesy paid by the President to the nation for voting him to power or did the President fervently believe that the people voted him because they were nothing but paragons of gratuitous virtue?

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Presidential Poll result an SLFP victory:

Mobilizing people with innate native values

Mahinda Rajapaksa’s charismatic qualities of leadership reached its Himalayan peak during the course of the campaign and the ordinary rural vote, including the down-trodden in the urban areas, saw him as the sole saviour of the nation, and it was his populist style of leadership with which he reached the rural voter whose attendance at public meetings was at its historic height. His gift of grace, as Max Weber described, was ‘the absolutely personal devotion and personal confidence in heroism or other qualities of individual leadership’.

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