‘Govt for equality of opportunity and democratic rights’

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), ending the 30-year-old ethnic war. But a political settlement eludes the country. In this interview with R. Bhagwan Singh at his Temple Tree residence in Colombo, the President spoke about relations with India and China, and the difficulties in relation to the Tamil question.

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socio-economic scene

Pulling our socks up

Individual countries in the Eurozone have put their own needs before that of the entire European economy. This in turn has been driven by the inability of individual companies and investors to put the needs of the mass before their own greed for profit,

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Realizing the Mahinda Chinthanaya... an LSSP perspective

At a political level the closer the governed are to those governing, the better the interaction and the answerability. With the 1978 constitution this gap was widened by making the district the electorate, and for local government a whole division. As a result the link between the elector and the elected has been more or less severed, and the MP can act without any responsibility towards the voters.

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