‘Rajapaksaism’ Is Not Dead Yet

By Vishwamithra1984 –February 17, 2016

“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.”~ Aristotle

Those who lose at elections don’t seem to realize that they, elections, have consequences. Dulles Alahapperuma, Dinesh Gunawardena, Rohitha Abeygunawardene, Kumara Welgama. Bandula Gunawardana and Mahinda Rajapaksa and some like-minded parliamentarians and elected members to other provincial bodies are still trying come to terms with the humiliating beating that they received on January 8, 2015. It is quite tough for those who had wielded almost unlimited power for a decade or so to first accept the loss and then reconcile themselves to the grueling reality of leading an ordinary man’s life. The so-called struggle that these losers have launched in Parliament to be recognized as a separate entity with a distinct identity as against the regular Opposition in Parliament, suffered an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the Speaker of the House the other day.

The latest cry from their half-baked ideologue, Dulles Alahapperuma that they would carry on their struggle to be heard in Parliament is a gross insult to that eminent assembly. Once crowded by national leaders of the caliber of D S Senanayake, Dudley Senanayake, J R Jayewardene, S W R D Bandaranaike, N M Perera, Colvin R de Silva, Peter Kueneman and Bernard Soysa and the Ponnambalam brothers, (Ramanathan and Arunachalam) G G Ponnambalam, Sir D B Jayatilleke and Arunachalam Mahadeva during the Legislative and State Council days, became something akin to an asylum run by its inmates during the Rajapaksa regime. It was during this blasphemous period of the Rajapaksa regime that Parliament became to be dominated by these losers who are now clamoring for their place in the sun, so to speak. It is beyond the pale.

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