Exercise your patriotic duty to the nation
A.A.M. Nizam
The people of the country gave a mammoth victory to President Mahinda
Rajapaksa in the recent Presidential election defeating the
conspiratorial anti-national elements brought together by the persuasion
and financing of the International and Tamil Diaspora rogues, expressing
their gratitude for eradicating the terrorist menace from this country
and articulating their trust that President Rajapaksa is the only person
who could develop this nation and re-establish the pristine glory of
this country destroyed and lost following the invasion of Western
imperialists and erroneous policies of the imperialist stooges who ruled
the country in the past.
The majority he obtained surpassed all previous records and a careful
analysis of the votes polled showed that people living in hitherto
undeveloped and neglected non-urban village areas were the main
contributors to this epic victory.
General election
The country is now set for the General election to elect
representatives to the Parliament for the next six years and the
Government is fervently hoping to get at least 150 members elected from
the Government group and thereby get two thirds majority to implement
the long due Constitutional changes without having to depend on the
support of others who could dictate terms to the Government or force it
to abandon its envisaged futuristic and populist measures.
There are certain articles arbitrarily introduced in the Constitution
of 1978 without giving an opportunity for the populace to provide their
opinion and suggestions. One such article was the change of the
traditional first the past post system into electoral district system
and introduction of the preference vote system.
This method has deprived the masses the opportunity of electing a
member to represent their respective electorates and it has become
absolutely impossible for a deserving patriotic person to get elected,
if he is unable to spend a colossal sum of money on his election
campaign.
Due to this despicable system many electorates were devoid of a
member to represent the people in the area and certain electorates,
particularly the urban electorates, had a cluster of members
representing it.
The leader of the United National Party Ranil Wickremesinghe, who act
according to the dictates of the Western nations and the Western Embassy
cabal based in Colombo, and always stand against the desires and
aspirations of the general public has already launched a campaign to
deny and obstruct the new Government getting a 2/3 majority. Although
his party would get a fair number of seats under the present district
electoral and proportional system, despite the inability of his party to
get the lead except in four or five urban electorates in the whole
country, being an experienced politician he knows very well that this is
the only chance the people of this country will be able to elect a
Government that could change the obnoxious articles and clauses in the
present Constitution, and hence his aversion to facilitate the changes
to the Constitution.
People’s welfare
Wickremesinghe had demonstrated umpteen times in the recent past that
he always looks at Sri Lankan politics in a selfish angle, and he never
considers the country’s and people’s welfare over and above his personal
greed.
It was with this objective in collaboration with the anarchist JVP he
attempted to fool the masses recently that the present Constitution
should be abolished saying that they are committed to abolish the
Constitution and restore the Parliamentary system, just because of his
hatred towards President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
His ignoramus deputies and political cohorts also mouthed this slogan
albeit the Constitutional provisions warrant a 2/3 majority in
Parliament for such a change. If they were really desirous of changing
the Constitution, what the UNP leader should do is to desist from
becoming an obstacle.
The UNP leader now eats his own words about the need to change the
Constitution and making a complete volt-face he is in a desperate
attempt to prevent changes taking place to the Constitution or
implementing a Constitution empowering the sovereignty to the people
through an elected Parliament and establishment of other proposed
administrative institutions such as Jana Sabhas, Gam Sabhas, make
changes to Provincial Council system and other administrative structures
imposed on us and convert them to suit this country, establishment of a
Senate and election of Parliamentary members through re-introduction of
constituencies and make Presidency as Trusteeship.
Vision for the Future
These proposals were clearly stipulated from pages 52 to 56 (both
numbers inclusive) in the ‘Mahinda Chintana - Vision for the Future’
presented as a policy document for the Presidential election and the
people have endorsed these proposals by the overwhelming majority given
to President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the December 26 Presidential election.
Through these proposals that require changes to the Constitution, the
people of the respective areas will be empowered to formulate their own
proposals to overcome the difficulties faced by them, initiate
development projects giving priority to utilization of resources
available in the respective areas, and become responsible and active
partners in the development of the country.
This is how the country was developed at the times of our ancient
kings and the country was made a glorious nation in the Asian region.
Wickremesinghe, who detest and mortify the cultural, and ethical
values of this nation, miss no opportunity to deride the religious
dignitaries, and strongly believes that salvage lies only through
adopting Western values and governing in accordance with Western
principles has become the biggest hurdle for empowering the people to
become the masters of their own destiny and for the endeavour being made
by the patriotic masses to regain the lost prestige of this nation.
Genuine UNPers
Also, the myopic policy of the UNP leader has placed the party in a
great danger of minimizing genuine UNPers getting elected in many
districts, including UNP’s traditional turf of Kandy district and
instead many communalists, terrorists proxies and international agents
are bound to get elected based on the nomination lists submitted.
This has even led to UNP General Secretary frightened of contesting
elections from the Kandy district and has sought refuge in the UNP
National List.
Results of not only the Presidential election but even the elections
held earlier indicate that there is a clear polarization of people in
the country where majority of the masses yearn and aspire for
strengthening of the cultural values of this nation and develop it
utilizing the indigenous resources thereby minimizing the country’s
dependence on foreign countries and foreign technology.
The present polarization offers the best opportunity to make changes
to the Constitution and if it was missed the possibility of getting
another occasion to do so is very remote.
It is the wish of the communalists, terrorist proxies and
international agents now contesting under the UNP nomination lists that
this system should prevail, so that they will be able to manipulate the
main political parties and get their parochial objectives achieved.
Anyone who has an iota of patriotism in his soul should consider the
forthcoming General election as a decisive moment and shun all party
allegiance and other petty interests and join together to enable the
Government to get 2/3 majority in the next Parliament and venture with
the Constitutional changes required for the betterment of the country.
Let’s free Sri Lanka from the shackles all bondages and strengthen
people’s sovereignty, so that our joint efforts could make this nation a
vanguard of development in the Asian region and ensure a better and
prosperous future for our posterity. |