In today’s FT, the ever opinionated WA
Wijewardena has reviewed the Dinesh Weerakkody Novel about the November
revolution that presented Maithripala Sirisena as the common candidate, the
best kept secret of Sri Lanka politics for a very long time, completely
outfoxing Rajapakse catching him off guard.
Whilst not having read the book, I am
only commenting on his assertions, and my interpretation based on what he has
alluded to.
In one sentences except for the main
premise, that to overthrow the Rajapakses it had to be done from within,
through parties he least expected, there was NO other strategy on how it was to
be done, except use the unwieldy and disorganized chaos of the UNP party
machinery to achieve the objective.
So it is merely a novel and one person’s
interpretation, with a vivid imagination on the risks involved! of how it was achieved. If only he knew the
risks, I took and the back- up plan I had prepared in the event of
communication blackout had a coup been contemplated on the night of the 8th
of January, my story would be more realistic, and none of my plan had to be put
into action, to counteract such an event.
SO what, now people are openly talking
of wanting MR and his White Van’s back, and the odd collections of bogey men
who run this Country now will be caught flat footed, if they do not listen to
the likes of us from the grassroots, on the urgency and plan of action to counter
the threats at hand.
The powers are seemingly ignorant of
people’s feelings or confident because they have put the trust in some people
who they believe are competent but who are completely impotent in gauging the
pulse of the people.
This is merely a wake up call people
currently in smug satisfaction, going to functions on how we did it then, when just
in the year that has passed since that November Revolution all that has been done
has been undone by the incompetent and “flushed with power” attitude of the people
at the top, who are incapable of proper organization to fulfill the expectations
of the people who voted them in.
It is the next revolution that I am alluding
to, that will change the face of what we know, where all the relics of the past
will be swept aside with ‘Y’ change.
November Revolution hopes have now been dashed by a hugely bureaucratic inefficient organization where no one is willing to take responsibility!
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