MaRa regime’s ‘castle in the air’ collapses : Hambantota ‘gold coast’ begins and ends as an empty boast

(Lanka-e-News -12.Nov.2011, 3.30PM) The MaRa regime’s vainglorious foolish attempt after wasting about a one billion rupees of people’s funds to hold the Commonwealth games festival 2018 at Hambantota Town went up in smoke, according to reports received from St. Kitts. 

At the ‘bidding’ event for deciding on the venue for holding the Commonwealth games 2018 , Sri Lanka could poll only 27 votes whereas the competing country Australia polled 43 votes. Accordingly , it has been decided that the Commonwealth games shall be held in Australia’s ‘Gold coast’ Town.

It is well to recall how the regime chief after saying ‘ aney hamaduruwane , I am not used to lying’ , shamelessly acted in breach of his solemn promise to give a Rs. 2500/ - rupee salary increase to the workers. This same regime chief had no qualms about getting ready to spend or rather waste a colossal sum of Rs. 8 billlion rupees to hold the commonwealth games 2018 , which attempt fortunately for the people did not materialize. But for this event flop , Rs. 8 billion of people’s money would have been wasted just for obscene ostentation of the ruthlessly profligate regime . The regime’s monumental profligacy and fiscal blundering is all the more unpardonable , because the regime is fully aware that its people are hard put even to have one square meal a day. This attempt therefore only betrays the hypocritical love this regime professes for the people. 
Even this dastardly wasteful attempt was characterized by regime’s characteristic corruption and malpractices from the beginning . How this sum of Rs. 8 billion is going to be raised is not mentioned in the expenditure estimate. Just to prepare the document putting down details of the project, a sum of Rs. 400 million had been wasted. The cost of chartering a plane to go to St. Keet to organize the biding which was an eventual failure was Rs. one billion ! Mind you , 165 members went on this tour to influence the commonwealth countries to vote for SL as the venue . All to no avail . These are not monies belonging to the private dowry coffers of the Rajapakse medamulana , these are people’s funds , medamulana Rajapakses are playing ducks and drakes with.
They did not care two hoots for the common man or their acute sufferings. What concerns them is frivolous ‘sport and play’ at people’s expense with the sole objective of projecting to the world vainly that they are unparalleled . Truly speaking , towards this event , if it were to take place , at least 12000 officials and delegates have to be provided with comfortable abodes with all facilities . If they were constructed , to whom can they be given after the event ? Are they to be given on rent to tourists ? In other countries , after such an event , those units are sold. But in poverty stricken Hambantota , to whom can these 12000 single dwelling abodes be sold? Unfortunately for the Rajapakses this attempt imbued with the worst stupid and economically bungling features failed , but the people must thank theirs stars that the moronic and despotic regime’s utterly meaningless venture flopped despite its diligence shown towards achieving it without caring for the people , country or country’s present economic meltdown.
Sri Lanka’s Jane nona in Hambantota today has to spend the same amount of money to eat an egg as a ‘Suddha’ (white man) has to in London . But Jane nona ‘s monthly income is only Rs. 10000/- but a Suddha ‘s monthly income even if he washes cars in London is Rs. 200,000/- minimum. One can therefore imagine to what desperate level Jane nona’s livelihood has been driven into today ,by Hambantota medamulana moron Rajapakse’s moribund regime.

It is therefore for the people in Hambantota to decide whether what is most necessary for them is commonwealth games in their midst wasting billions of rupees of the people by a regime which shows no concern for their untold woes and takes decisions unilaterally heeding nobody’s advice , or the bare essentials for their living including at least one simple meal a day , clothing and shelter.

Of course there is nothing that can be done to those Hambantota ‘umbewansalas’ who prefer the commonwealth games because they imagine they can tie themselves to the bullock carts with the maroon shawls and compete with the other local bullocks.