We will support MR if they reduce powers of PCs : Patali
The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) General Secretary Patali Champika Ranawaka yesterday said that his party would consider supporting the incumbent president if he brings amendments to the 13th Amendment to reduce powers of the Provincial Councils before the presidential elections.
We asked him to remove the power which a provincial council has to merge with another council and to increase the power of the governor but he did not do it and we ask him to do so now if he could,” Mr. Ranawaka said.
However Ranawaka said that he was convinced that the present regime would not do it. He recalled that the present regime always had connections with the LTTE leadership and was reluctant to start up military operations to crush them, adding that it had also failed to take over the wealth of LTTE strongman Kumaran Pathmanathan, as promised.
(Daily Mirror)
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Why, again pabakaran is not good than MR for you? Try to decide before 8th, where to support.! This’s the world’s 1st political school…
Get rid of PCs altogether, as they were imposed on SL by our enemy India with a loaded gun on JR’s head. PCs cost the nation too much which should be used to develop the country. Many PC members have no proper education. They are thugs and upstarts who are bleeding the country dry.
Reference to Blog 2,
There are 3 outstanding Chief Ministers of Provincial Councils, Dayasiri Jayasekera, Sasheendra Rajapaksa and C Vickneswaram.
The contributions made by these 3 CM’s surpasses the contribution, if any, made by the Cabinet.
The 3 CM’s are Presidential material with Sasheendra leading followed by Dayasiri.
The remaining Provincial Council leaderships leaves much to be desired. Some of them are “thugs and upstarts” but it is the peoples of these provinces who elected them and the people deserve the leadership which they elect.
In the forthcoming elections, the people shall elect a leadership of their preference. One candidate is tried and tested with excellent delivery credentials. The other is a bleating goat, untried, untested, being fostered by failed leaders and funded by the west. The latter talks of good governance and supremacy of Parliament; these are invalid because one does not fathom the composition of parliament on 9 Jan.
The incumbent offers stability, growth and peace while the opponent, most likely,will trigger socioeconomic unrest.
Peoples of Sri Lanka, the choice is your, choose wisely.