The UNP called
in their future leaders to a gathering of the Baby Elephants yesterday at
Temple Trees.
A diktat went
out from the General Secretary to all UNP Electoral Organizers to send 10 of
their most active Youth to the event. They duly acquiesced, so a contingent of
1,500 were present of the best of the party if the Organizers did as they were
told.
Including lunch
the whole proceedings were only from 10am to 2pm even though it was scheduled
to start at 9am. 99% of the people attending this event felt their time,
energy, and money was WASTED as they came with nothing, and they went with even
less.
A promise from
the PM was not enough to satisfy their desires, and the only fun they had was
taking selfies with some of the leaders. The problem with most of those who are
hooked on selfies, is that they have NO vision, on how to attract youth,
talent, and life as well as youth leadership to the party. A good hard hitting
statement SHOULD HAVE SAID “ One of you here, under 35 will be the prime
minister of our Country in 15 years, we will prepare you for that high office
by giving you leadership from now” BUT NOT ONE SPEAKER DID THAT. It shows how
bankrupt the thinking is!
Those gathered
yesterday could have been empowered to win the next general election, by the
following statement – “You can go back to your polling booth divisions, and
with the most active female youth member of that division, as the leader, go to
200 homes in your polling booth division where there are females under 35
registered and speak to them, and give them our policy for youth. If you convince
125 of them to vote for the UNP next time, you will have changed the 1,000,000
female youth who voted for Mahinda and 500,000 to Maithripala, to change to
1,000,000 voting for Ranil and 500,000 for the others, giving a full 1M vote
advantage to the UNP, as 500,000 more votes for the Elephant with a similar fewer
votes for the Bulath Kolaya! And then we will promise”
“Each and every
one of you here if you want will be provided with a job, commensurate with your
ability and you have my word on it.” How powerful will those words resonate
with the people present, and what more power when they go home and relate this
to their kith and kin.
Wont they also
want to join this winning team? Give them all the T shirt to be proud of their
attendance instead of a biriyani lunch and send off!
Give workers a
chance, and send them on a leadership training course to further empower them
in the cause, just give the time servers a title and send them to Siberia. It
is the time servers of the UNP that are spoiling the party, and preventing the visionaries
from moving the party forward to the new age of Global thinking and doing.
In short accept
this event as an utter unadulterated failure, learn from it and take a cue from
this blog entry and follow some of its thinking, there is NO way if this
thought process is followed you can lose, and it is all free advice to those
sensible enough to take it.
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