Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
Truth becomes true law in Sri Lanka
Sri
Lankan politicians have confirmed that they cannot conduct themselves as per
their own Constitution. The first and the highest citizen is the litmus test
about the workability of the Constitution. It is obvious that the President did
not make a strong contribution to the Constitution nor that he mentally
respected those who did. Hence the current state of affairs at the top.
When
we fail to respect the law and invest in it – our Truth becomes the law. This
would usually include some investment in law at the junior level. To be fair to
Mr Sirisena he is in this current situation because he was tempted by being the
President and therefore the boss of his then boss Mr Mahinda Rajapaksa. Mr
Sirisena may have the senior position status ; but the one who can work that
position is Mr Rajapaksa. The Tamil parallel of that in Northern Sri Lanka is
that while Mr Wigneswaran held the position of Chief Minister, it was Ms Ananthi Sasitharan who had the LTTE
power to work that position in current Northern Province which is ‘foreign’ to
my generation. I had a dose of this demotion yesterday also when I rang the
Registrar of Mallakam District Court in Northern Sri Lanka just to find out the
progress of Due Process – and he said that I needed to come through our lawyer.
He said that was the Judge’s order! In other words – in that court the Public
will be ‘told’ by the Judges and lawyers. This eventually leads to internal
divisions of the community served / led by the judiciary.
There are ‘rights’ and there are ‘benefits’. Those
truly driven by rights would naturally unite and those truly driven by ‘benefits’
would naturally divide. This week I received emails inviting us to donate to
prevent war-widows who were selling their kidneys to survive. The invitation
came with the note shown above. It translates as one Mr Krishnapillai – the Minister’s
special secretary having received Rs 200,000 from Mr Sripathi, to be handed
over to Mrs Ananthi Sasitharan. The memory that my Truth invoked was that the then
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M G Ramachandran who earned big brother status from LTTE leader Prabhakaran received the kidney of a young
relative. Money that does not go through common values of our positions, come
with the true values. Hence the kidney sales by war widows who are the
parallels of the poor relation of Mr MG Ramachandran.
As of now, Mrs Sasitharan is yet to demonstrate appropriate structures through which these
donations would be processed to make them ‘Service’ to the whole.
This is the parallel of Mr Sirisena’s personal
decision to make way for his former boss.
Now that we know that the law has been abandoned, we
need to abide by the law that our own personal truth tells us. Each one of us
has our own constitution as per our Truth. When we are marked ‘right’ or ‘wrong’
by that true law – we live in inner harmony.
The President’s true law has marked him wrong in democracy.
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