Stupidity of splitters 

June 21, 2013

The ‘Vipakshaye Virodaya’ recently met the Elections Commissioner at his office in Rajagiriya and requested him to obtain the services of polls monitors from Commonwealth countries for the Northern Provincial Coincil elections and to appoint a civilian as governor of the province so as to facilitate the holding of a free and fair election.

The LSSP-CP, Rajitha Senaratne, SLMC, and many in the SLFP who don’t want to show their hand, quite rightly oppose watering down or repealing 13A. Though 13A has weaknesses, the motive of the attackers (JHU, Gota, Wimal, BSS) is to deny Tamils self-administration rights Sinhalese have enjoyed for 25 years. The fairy tale that separatists lurk behind every palmyra palm and a Tamil PC is a formula for breaking-up the country is poppycock; a nursery tale to fool the Sinhala public.

But this letter is to draw attention to something else; foolish dissension in the opposition. The afore-named lot campaign on their own, another left oriented group (Bahu, Siritunga, Mano Ganeshan and others), campaigns separately. The first lot (DEW etc) refuses to cooperate with the second. Why; because the second lot cooperates with the UNP.

But who enacted 13A in the first place? The UNP!

DEW, Tissa, even Rajitha (sic), are oblivious to the inane incongruity of their politics!

Kumar David

Colombo