I, Me And Myself Syndrome – The Dilemma Of Sri Lankan Governance
The Reversal:
People’s sovereignty is supreme is the familiar phrase that is bandied about in the world. In some countries this holds true, but in Sri Lanka this is reversed, so much so that it is felt that there is no turning back. People through the constitution have vested their power with the Judiciary, the Executive and Legislature for right action to bring about justice and well being. In Sri Lanka today this has taken a full turn.
The Dilemma of Sri Lankan Governance
Let me be very plain and simple. What has happened to Sri Lanka? The country is a failed state, despite its grandiose façade of Singapore style city development – enjoyed by the elite few. In contrast there are yet villages, even those not so rural and fairly close to cities that have no basic road access nor transport. Let us have some of the organic muck back in the cities, interspersed with the vestiges of good governance that we had. But the threads of governance are slipping away slowly and surely from the fingers of the people, the polity, the citizenry. The concept of people’s supremacy, have we forgotten this? Who is serving whom? The people have been designated to serve as lackeys of politicians. The concept of the servant of the people too has gone to sleep in the way bureaucrats on the one hand, lick the hands of the politicians and kick the citizens who have to be served. Are they being paid with tax payer’s money? One fails to remember these facts.
Who has brought this upon ourselves? Let us have an open analysis about this sad state of affairs. The root cause being the I, ME AND MYSELF syndrome.
