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(Lanka-e-News- 26.Aug.2014, 11.30PM) It is a universally acknowledged fact that an Elections Commissioner ought to be absolutely impartial given the fact that he holds a most responsible position , and any corrupt activity of his can bring ruination on a country which is depending on him fully just like they depend on elections to elect their right candidate. It is also equally true that the highly valued right of franchise of the people will be rendered meaningless if the Elections commissioner turns shamelessly partial and unscrupulous in order to favor and fawn on the rulers. He cannot therefore indulge in comic and clownish activities although he has been selected deliberately by the equally unscrupulous rulers to be a comedian to serve their selfish self centered power greed.Mahinda Deshapriya , the present elections commissioner of Sri Lanka who is a stooge of MaRa , had already displayed signals that he is not only incapable of being impartial but also incompetent to handle his tasks duly so much so that the staff within his own department itself have turned against him over his obnoxious and shameless conduct.
This resentment against Deshapriya had been triggered following Deshapriya’s disgraceful sordid actions on the 18 th of August and his lukewarm conduct in the past amidst the threats which were faced by his own senior elections officers.
Hereunder is detailed the disgraceful incident that took place on the 18 th of August :
Mahinda Deshapriya who summoned the secretaries of the opposition political parties – UNP, JVP and Democratic party to his elections commissioner’s office for a meeting regarding Uva provincial council (PC) elections , made a beeline to the Parliament to woo and meet with secretaries of the government , Maithripala Sirisena the SLFP secretary , and Susil Premajayantha , the UPFA secretary .
For this meeting Deshapriya has invited additional elections commissioners U. Amaradasa and R .M.A.L. Ratnayake ,deputy elections commissioner (administration) M.M. Mohomed and three most senior elections officers close to Deshapriya .
The superior officer next to Deshapriya is from Beliatta , the village of Rajapakses. Except Amaradasa , the other two officers have rightly opposed this action of Deshapriya.
This same Deshapriya who made a sprint to the parliament with the other officers, crept into Temple Trees in the night under the cover of darkness , met the President over a sumptuous meal and booze and for a secret discussion ( Lanka e news exposed this in its report on 21 st July that while the Uva elections has begun , a secret sumptuous party is being thrown to elections commissioner , chiefs of the forces and the police at Temple Trees).
It is a well and widely known fact that in the whole history of the elections commissioner’s department ,never were its officers attacked , insulted, harassed and threatened as now under Deshapriya’s tenure of office as Commissioner of elections. Yet instead of standing by his officers and acting with a backbone on their behalf , he has all along been emptily bragging about how he was a stupid and spurious pro communist activist when he was a youth in the communist party while in the University. The officers of the department are therefore thoroughly disappointed and disillusioned regarding Deshapriya’s sordid and shameless conduct selling his so called ideologies and soul to curry favor with the most evilly powerful in the political hierarchy. The following episodes further expose Deshapriya’s offensive official conduct …….
* Son in law of Minister Gamini Lokuge scolded Deshapriya’s own subordinate elections officers in most insolent language .
* A provincial council member of the government , Janaka Weliwatte (lawyer) most viciously scolded an assistant elections commissioner and attempted to assault him.
* At Matara , Assistant Commissioner of elections , Aruna Saumya Fernando was assaulted by Rasaputra.
* Recently , when Kurunegala deputy elections commissioner Chaminda Thalangama gave an order forbidding a procession with about 150 vehicles of Anura Vidhanagamage and Thenuka Vidhanagamage at Mahiyangana , Thalangama’s camera was broken into pieces and was nearly assaulted.
In these circumstances of wanton violence and attacks launched on his own superior elections officers by the politicos of the Rajapakse regime , even though Mahinda Deshapriya has all the powers to take action against the wrongdoers who insulted , assaulted and obstructed the performance of the legitimate duties of his superior elections officers , this shameless stooge and lackey had done nothing – not even lifted a finger to safeguard the dignity or ensure the safety of his subordinate officers .
On the contrary , it is the view of Deshapriya that disciplining the party members is a responsibility of the party secretaries. The officers of the elections department are also rudely surprised and angered over Deshapriya’s pretended timidity and fear to object to the printing of invitation cards by the government politicos linked to their elections propaganda, as well as polling cards by the government printing department in violation of election laws. Moreover , Deshapriya has taken no action whatsoever against these glaring malpractices.
Meanwhile Charitha Herath , the secretary to the government’s unscrupulous Ministry of media coolies , had given an unlawful order to the government printing department to print invitation cards of the SLFP. He had further stated most shamelessly that the cost of this illegal printing will be met by the economic development Ministry of Basil Rajapakse.
A JVP member had questioned whether Basil’s Ministry would meet the printing expenses of their own election posters done through the government printer ? Indeed , every party should be given that concession .
The bribes in view of elections which began with distribution of exercise books and spades has now blossomed in all its stench to cellular phones, and even free distribution of tractors in spite of the fact that all these are election law violations. Deshapriya , the elections commissioner remaining deaf and blind to all these raging brazen election violations had irked and irritated the elections officers of his own department . Sadly , Deshapriya seems to be ignorant and oblivious of the treason he is committing by his sordid disgraceful official conduct ,disregarding even the priceless value of the right to franchise of the voters which is going to decide the destiny of a whole country – whether the country is going to be ruled by brutes, foolish brats and stealthy rats in human form or true patriots .