This article is about the laughing stock, the people of Maharagama have been turned into, and give an opinion of how their shame can be rehabilitated a little, as otherwise anyone known to be living in Maharagama will forever be damned as IDIOTS who don't even know if they are voting for a dog let alone a dead one!
That is the level the supposedly INTELLIGENT voter of Maharagama has stooped to, a suburb of the Greater Colombo Area that has the educated, professional and supposedly until now the intelligent elite of Sri Lanka. Did they not know they were voting for Cousellers or Members to represent them to make sure the facilities provided by the Local Council were satisfactory for their well being? Instead they got what they deserve a whole unsuitable motley crew of mainly one family in Badalgama, which none of the voters of Maharagama have even heard of, and now have to lie in their own excrement, to put no other pun on this UNLESS of course my suggestion below is adopted.
I note here a link to yesterday's Daily Mirror article which touched on this issue, though they had the misfortune of interviewing the wrong people to get an independent opinion, but that is another story in itself, about media bias and ethics!
I spoke with Counsel, a very proficient senior lawyer in the AGs office to get his opinion on WHY the AG is not prosecuting
these people who have clearly broken the law in a party, entering a lists of
Candidates who have NO connection at all to Maharagama, some having never even
set foot there! What a joke? I can understand that the Elections Commissioner
would not have had the time to investigate this application and throw it out
before it was even submitted as a valid list for the elections. However it is
clear that only those who are ordinarily resident in Maharagama can contest for
a seat in the MMC and these people are clearly ineligible.
What he said was that our adversarial
system of justice is such that a person must first make a complaint at the
Police Station of the alleged infringement and to his knowledge legal steps are
being taken in order to do this. Once it is made by say an voter aggrieved by
this inclusion, effectively compromising his right on the ballot paper to vote
for a qualified candidate, then a case should be taken up by the aggrieved
party, citing the AGs office as a respondent to which the AGs office will offer
NO defense and then would be sent for trial to a High Court to be heard and a
necessary judgment made to
“Deny the Bicycle Party all the votes
cast in favor of them as being invalid, due to various breaches of the letter
and spirit of the law”
I
will call it the Motocycle Madness of the Maharagama Municipal Council
In such an instance, then the Election’s
Commissioner will have to re constitute the results, sans the votes cast for
this GAGGLE of a party, and award a new ruling as to who has been duly returned
to the Maharagama Municipal Council.
In order to free the shame of the people
of Maharagama, who blindly voted for the deaf and blind or live in Badalgama
and be the butt end of the jokes of people in Sri Lanka till the end of time,
let us hope there are sane people left in this Country to see justice is being
done without delay and spare the population of Maharagama from having to commit
Hara Kiri out of SHAME.
There does not appear a basis in law to
invalidate the whole election due to this absurdity, and have a new election,
so let this be done FORTHWITH.
Typical of the herd instinct of the people. The pohottuwa side said to vote for the bicycle and so they did. They had NO clue who they were voting for! What if these people were all presently in jail, how would the voter answer to that allegation?
ReplyDeletePeople in Maharagama are all IDIOTS even those who did not vote for the bicycle for even tolerating such nonsense