Prime Minister's friends Responsible for Mahinda's re-emergence !

Jan 01, 2017

The kurunagala MP is now is in no mood to take a back seat like 18 months ago, when he lost 2 elections in a row. The former president last year looked totally stressed out and could visibly seen to be avoiding most people. 

 

18 months later he is seen at every wedding and funeral talking to people and mobbed by people. Recently he made a mockery of the Prime Minister at a meeting in Hambantota. He is a man on a mission to regain his lost glory. All his excesses are slipping away from the public domain for want of action from the government. 

 

Very soon the utterances made by Managala Samaraweera that he stashed away 18 billion dollars oversees, will be viewed as a diabolical lie spread to discredit the former president. All the murder charges and abuse of power against the Rajapakses will be forgotten. The fact that the UNP led government has fallen to such low levels is similar to what happened in 2004. 

 

The Prime Minister did not have the sense to know Chandrika Kumaranatunga was pulling the rug under his feat. His friend Malik Samarawickrama was negotiating with Mano Thithawala when Chandrika Kumaranatunga decided to dissolve parliament very secretly. 

 

History is repeating it self once more. 

 

The same team that led him to his downfall, Malik Samarawickrama, Charitha Rathwatte, R. Paskaralingem, Ananda Authukorala, Sagala Rathnayake and Arjun Mahendran have come back to dig his grave. 

 

Other than Samarawickrama none of them were heard or seen for over 10 years. Sadly it is the UNP supporters who have slogged in the wilderness for over 10 years who will be the final losers. 

 

There are numerous allegations against his friends from nepotism to doing deals. Ajith Dias and Rathwatte's brother have totally mismanaged the airline making the government even more unpopular. They have built a wall round the Prime Minister to ensure their activities don't get exposed to the Prime Minister. 

 

The proposed development bill will never go through according to SLFP Ministers. No SLFP MP wants Malik Samarawickrama to have excess power given his track record in the last 18 months. The group around The Prime Minister wants him to break off and go on their own. A showdown between the SLFP and UNP will come when the bill is presented in Parliament. 

 

The same group will at that stage urge the Prime Minister to a form a government of their own. If an attempt is made the Prime Minister could end up losing his place in history, because more than three people are waiting in the background hoping this would happen, for them to cash in. 

UNP backbenchers say the PMs friends are making him look like an emperor with no clothes on and if the government falls this time these people will not be allowed to get away like in 2004, we will hold them accountable for ruining our future and protest in front of their house , because if we don't watch out the UNP can very well come number three in the local government elections. 

 

That will be the end of the UNP regime a UNP minister remarked. At least in the new year the Prime Minister should investigate and prosecute all the political rogues who are hiding behind his friends.