To Your Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa, A Sincere Plea
Dear Excellency,
I am an ordinary citizen of Sri Lanka, born in 1965, twenty years younger than you short of six months and 3 days. You were born on 18 November 1945 and I on 15 May 1965. So I am sure you will take this sincere note as an older brother, or even a father or an uncle would. You are also very fond of children, it is said, especially daughters. I could even be a daughter to you with this age gap. The Mahinda Chintanaya also gives top priority to women. So as a female writing to you, I know for sure you will give this note a thought.
This letter is written in the spirit of “the country and our people doing well”. If you do continue in existence as President for many years, that is not an issue to me personally. I have given up on politics and political parties and have decided not to vote for any of the parties or persons currently in existence, as all have been brutal to the people of this country. We all can remember 1971, 1983, 1989 and 2009. However your continuing to stay for many years could be an issue for good governance, as it is a practice of good governance to rescind power every 5 or 6 years for fresh blood to participate in governing of the country.
In fact if we form a party for animals or the environment, I may vote for them, as the cause is worthy.
Let me begin with the last 5 years. However it was done, you ended the war. I do not support war however trying a situation it is, but you brought the bombs to an end with that able man called Sarath Fonseka. Many people thank you for this, even grudgingly, so do the people of the North and East. I have personally met thousands of these people during the course of my work and this is a fact. There are some post war positive outcomes of your tenure. These are mainly the beautification and cleanup of the capital and some other key cities and we assume that tourism is on the rise. Diaspora are also visiting home, grudgingly admiring the country and coming more frequently. Globally Colombo is beginning to be recognized as some kind of an event hub mainly because of infrastructure development which is considerable. Even though this development may not be pro poor and accomplished not with net foreign investment, but on a number of loans, the result is eye catching and convenient to those who can afford.
