{"id":37667,"date":"2015-01-23T20:40:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T01:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37667"},"modified":"2015-01-23T20:40:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T01:40:24","slug":"from-aiyo-sirisenato-aiyo-siripala-the-buzzwords-change-in-sri-lankan-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37667","title":{"rendered":"From “Aiyo Sirisena”to “Aiyo Siripala” the Buzzwords Change in Sri Lankan Political Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

By<\/p>\n

Lucien Rajakarunanayake<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new Leader of the Opposition, Nimal Siripala de Silva, has announced that the SLFP Opposition will also have its own 100-day programme for the coming General Election, while supporting President Maithripala Sirisena to implement the 100-day programme of the current Yaha Palana alliance.<\/p>\n

My first reaction was a loud “Aiyo Sirisena”.<\/p>\n

This “Aiyo Sirisena” approach is very relevant in the crossover politics of today. One cannot forget how soon after Maithripala Sirisena was announced as the Common Candidate of the then Opposition, there were posters all over, put up by the SLFP-led UPFA, making much of the jocular plaint of “Aiyo Sirisena”, in a vicious tone.<\/p>\n

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These posters even showed the Sirisena who had left them, being a stab-in-the-back enemy to whatever cause they stood for. The “Aiyo Sirisena” insult was hurled with much venom by the crowd grabbing speaker Wimal Weerawansa at most pro-Rajapaksa rallies, where bus loads transported public (the bills are yet to be paid to the SLTB) gave the false impression of huge crowds at these events.<\/p>\n

This was the height of political deceit played on Mahinda Rajapaksa, giving him the false impression of winning with a huge majority; backed by the ravings of the fasting-hoax Weerawansa, woman stripping SB Dissanayake and the screaming voice of an Apavithra Wanniarachchi. <\/p>\n

But “Aiyo Sirisena” took a very different turn when Sirisena won the mandate of the people. Those left behind, in the SLFP or UPFA, were racing to come over to the winning side. There were new and desperate pleadings of “Aiyo Sirisena” to take them all to his winning side. The “Aiyo Sirisena” plea got louder when the Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s change of the SLFP Constitution to remove Chandrika Kumaratunga from the party leadership, boomeranged on him, enabling the winning Sirisena, with the pleadings of “Aiyo, Aiyo” behind him, to stride to the leadership of the SLFP; giving the shoving upstairs to Mahinda R, to share what he believed was the insult to Chandrika as Patron of the party.<\/p>\n

What then of the100-day programme of the SLFP Opposition? Will it be a new search of international conspiracies to destabilize this country, or to give new life to the LTTE? Will this include new allegations of how a political plot is being hatched to take Mahinda Rajapaksa to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, and as it was said so often, place him on the electric chair for war crimes?<\/p>\n

Will this 100-day programme include new efforts to place members SLFP or UPFA politico\u2019s families \u2013 whether children, nephews & nieces, or even uncles and aunts \u2013 in the foreign service of Sri Lanka, for which they have the least qualification; and be guided there by a “Monitoring MP” who saw the assault on an ambassador of the county as the height of diplomacy?<\/p>\n

Is it possible for this 100-day programme to include the establishing of yet another TV station, with a Carlton prefix to its name, which will get the most lucrative advertising for sports coverage, which was grabbed from the State broadcasting institutions? Will it include the march further ahead of the “Nil Balakaya” or the Blue Front that looked and behaved very much like the “Baby Doc” gangs in Haiti, with little respect for decency in public, and a special taste for threatening referees in rugby matches?<\/p>\n

It will certainly be a great 100-day move, with all the hope of raising several millions to pay for the cost of the coming election, from people with special links to the huge rackets taking place in the drugs and ethanol sectors, with the distillation of corruption to produce the spirits of the kind that corrupt politicians are ever so fond of.<\/p>\n

The most important feature of the Nimal Siripala 100 day programme is finding another family, like the Rajapaksas, whose trunk is so thick and branches are spread as wide as to cut off the sunlight below, to prevent any other plants to grow, and also creepers to control everything from politics to so-called development in the provinces. Will it be a 100-day plan for a “Divi Besma” \u2013 that rhymes with the all pervading tone of the Basildom of local politics in recent years?<\/p>\n

Looking at all of these possibilities in the coming 100-day plan promised by Nimal Siripala de Silva, my reaction is another big Aiyo, but with a difference. “Aiyo Siripala!”<\/p>\n

Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n

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By Lucien Rajakarunanayake The new Leader of the Opposition, Nimal Siripala de Silva, has announced that the SLFP Opposition will also have its own 100-day programme for the coming General Election, while supporting President Maithripala Sirisena to implement the 100-day programme of the current Yaha Palana alliance. My first reaction was a loud “Aiyo Sirisena”. …<\/p>\n

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