Gajalakshmi
Paramasivam
05
November 2019
NO
TAMIL CANDIDACY – NO RIGHT TO DEMAND TAMIL STATE
The laws that an individual is regulated by, confirm
her/his position in that environment. The wider the coverage the
higher the status. Whether that individual is facilitated to take that position
or not – it exists and when needed, the individual will take that place to
confirm the order in her/his home group. Those who use outcomes instead of laws
– confirm that their relationship with the group is weak. It is for this reason
that in families money based interactions without the blessings of the senior-most
person are banned. Families that measure
through money disintegrate. Likewise, countries.
As
per EIN Presswire report headed ‘Major Tamil Political Parties Jointly Submit
Demands to Presidential Candidates for Response to Decide Tamil's Position’:
[Five Major Tamil political parties have agreed on basic demands to
be submitted to the Sri Lanka's major Presidential candidates for response to
enable them to decide Tamil's position in the upcoming Presidential election.
This initiative was coordinated by Tamil University Students.]
The ‘demands’ are those of the University students and they are way
beyond their jurisdiction in submitting them to politicians. It is most disorderly
and shameful. Even if they were initiated by Politicians – they do not belong
during election time. The value of each person’s vote is as per their belief in
an issue. Such belief is confirmed by their true needs. The system of truth
manifests it through the appropriate candidate in the appropriate environment.
This may not be the election environment or even political government. The
deeper the need the greater the assurance of return.
Any politician who needed to give form to Tamil
expectations ought to have contested for that very purpose. To the extent Tamils
overwhelmingly vote for that candidate the values that s/he represented would
be confirmed as being legitimate. That
is what the franchise is all about. That
vote is the demand. No politician who is not participating has the right to
formulate that demand to influence the voter one way or the other, leave alone
promote themselves in an election where they have no representation.
As per Ceylon Today article headed ‘Gotabaya
rejected 13 proposals ; Sajith is mum – Wiggy - Have to check if ‘Unitary State’ has different
words in Sajith’s manifesto’ Mr Wigneswaran’s
mind-structure is presented as follows:
[‘if none of
the leading candidates accept the
proposals he will ask the people of the North
to refrain from voting for them and instead vote for some other candidate. “Under
no circumstance will I ask people not to vote” he stressed]
Given that no Presidential candidate is a Tamil – the need here is for community
leaders to identify with the relevant values in the leading candidates who have demonstrated
commitment to democracy and therefore separation of powers where a particular
group has demonstrated diversity by structure and / or conduct. As a former
member of the Judiciary Mr Wigneswaran needed to know this at least after the
experience of Dr Shirani Bandaranayake – the Chief Justice who was dismissed by
the Rajapaksa government. Remembering that breach and how we balanced it in our
own minds becomes our true armour against such forces in our current environments.
As per the Island article ‘PM says no secret pacts
between Sajith and Tamil parties’ :
[Prime
Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday that New Democratic Front
candidate Sajith Premadasa had not reached any secret agreements with Tamil
political parties.
The Prime Minister was quoted by his office, in a media statement,
as having said at some meetings in Jaffna yesterday (3) that the NDF candidate
had made known his position on women, youth, etc. "The parties that agree
to these ideas have joined forces with our candidate."
Only the NDF camp has offered a solution for the national problem
that is acceptable to the North and South alike, the PM’s Office has said.]
That confirms commitment to Unitary State and Equal
Opportunity principles. Out of all the current politicians – Mr Wickremasinghe
has demonstrated global mindedness which makes Sri Lanka attractive to global
investors. More impressively – ordinary Australians living in Canada have demonstrated
such merger by compensating for the damage done by Australian Government. SBS
Reports as follows under the heading ‘Meet
the Australian expats helping ex-Manus Island detainees get a fresh start in
Canada’
[Laura Beth Bugg
doesn’t live in Australia anymore, but the plight of refugees stuck in
Australia’s offshore processing system hasn’t left her mind.
“My family is still in Australia. My friends are still in
Australia. I’m Australian – and as an Australian, I feel responsible to do
something about this,” Ms Bugg told SBS News from Toronto.
Ms Bugg is part of the Canadian branch of Australian Diaspora
Steps Up (Ads-Up Canada), a group of Australian expats and Canadian locals
helping to resettle refugees from the Manus Island and Nauru detention centres
in Canada.]
Global minded Tamils likewise
have the opportunity to groom Sri Lankan Tamils into democracy and therefore
globalization. If the Sri Lankan government is committed to democracy – the network
would include the government. Otherwise it would bypass the government and work
through private groups. In his Daily Mirror article ‘Tabs, Pads and so on…
Promises – if Kept, a Paradise!’ Mr KKS Perera analyses as follows:
[Voters are flooded with all kinds of
promises, our politicians hardly address the priorities, the real wants of the
people, and instead they aim at winning the gullible poor masses. Campaign
promise is a promise or an election guarantee made to the voter by a candidate
or political party that is trying to get elected. The UK, Spain, Sweden,
Portugal and Canada, we find the highest percentages of promise fulfilment by
government with one party rule, with lower percentages in the Netherlands,
Germany, Austria, Italy, Bulgaria and Ireland in most of which, the governments
are alliances or coalitions. ]
The sanitary pad
request by women cadre in the LTTE was immediately satisfied by leader
Prabhakaran. I learnt about it from the women cadre. That was their measure and
not mine. As per my measure, it was
highly unlikely that Prabhakaran would have become democratic leader of the
Tamil community. The one party system works better when the juniors leave it to
the government to govern including in their local home environments where truth
ought to govern. . While Sri Lankan Tamils claim to be self-governing, they
failed to resist militancy because they left democracy to the leaders whilst
they themselves practiced autocracy wherever they found dependent groups –
including amongst politicians. The University student group is confirming to be
such an autocratic group.
First among the ‘demands’
is listed as follows by EIN
Presswire is:
[Reject Unitary State in
the new Constitution and establish a Federal State for Tamils.]
Despite the leadership of Mr Wigneswaran as Chief
Minister – Jaffna Public Administration is seriously lacking in democracy. Once
there is Federal structure – we are assured to become like the Sinhalese
government and would promote internal militancy led by University students. Leaders
who keep blaming others without looking at themselves – turn wrongs into sins. Once
they are sins – there are beyond our
control. Dictatorship in Northern Sri
Lanka where the Vaddukoddai Resolution was given birth – is WRONG. When we let it become a sin – even god will
not come to our rescue.
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