Yahapalana govt. at the crossroads?
November 14, 2015
The government that came into power promising good governance or yahapalanaya is already showing signs of coming apart at the seams. Even the unexpected demise of Ven. Sobitha was being blamed indirectly on the yahapalana government with the late monk’s closest political associate, Dr Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri of FUTA fame telling The Island that people began questioning Ven Sobitha about the doings of the yahapalana government and were expecting the senior monk to do something to correct the course of the government and that the Ven. monk’s health deteriorated because he just couldn’t take the pressure. It also so transpires that President Maithripala Sirisena had not gone to see Ven. Sobitha during his final illness not necessarily out of callous indifference but possibly out of fear of what the ailing monk may say to him the president’s detractors say.