Saboteurs Try To Disrupt Sobitha’s SI Campaign: Sobitha Must Reaffirm His Stand

By Kumar David -March 2, 2014 |

Prof Kumar David

Maduluwawe Sobitha hamuduruwo has made his stand absolutely clear: “I will be a Single Issue (SI) presidential candidate for the purpose of abolishing the Executive Presidency (EP) within six months of election. Then I will quit; let the people elect their next government on the new constitutional basis which will be put in place within the six months”. The second pointHamuduruwo has emphasised is that since he has no governmental ambitions, since he has no greed for power, and since he is doing this only as public service and not for personal gain, he hopes that he can be supported by everybody. He hopes to be a National Common Candidate (NCC) exclusively for the stated SI objective, if the nation wants him to do this service.

 Now I have got information from reliable sources, two of them within Hamuduruwo’s inner circle that a group of saboteurs led by an ex-JVP person has infiltrated and is attempting to undermine all three core principles of the SI-NCC concept. First, this group is doing all it can to seduce the inner circle to give up the SI concept and instead include broad governmental programmes in the campaign. Then comes the evil part; why doesHamuduruwo need a broad governmental programme if he is going back to the pansala in six months? The evil objective of these saboteurs is to undermine the morality of the campaign and spread distrust thatHamuduruwo will try to hang on to power. This leads to the third pillar of the SI-NCC edifice that they are attempting to disrupt, the NCC part. They strategy is to sabotage the common candidate element. What is the logic of a common candidate strategy if the objective is not a Single Issue strategy to get rid of the Executive Presidency, but an underhand plot to form a government and hang on to power for six years? Why should others – the UNP, the JVP, Muslims, Tamils – lend their support to this subterfuge? If you want to enjoy the presidency for six more years, or god knows how many more terms, declare that openly and don’t hide under SI camouflage, they will say.                                       Read More