11 August 2023
Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
13th
AMENDMENT IS DEAD
On 09 August 2023, I received the indication that
Truth has recognised my contribution to Sri Lankan Governance and shared it as
follows, with one of my home-groups through an email addressed to Mr MCM Iqbal:
Mr Iqbal,
Today, in
response to my article ‘EDUCATE THE GOVERNMENT TO
RECONCILE’ a reader directed me to your article on the 13th
Amendment at Devolution of powers under the 13th Amendment in Sri Lanka:
Fact or Fiction? – Groundviews
You
state there :
‘Let us now look at the powers of the
Provincial Ministers through whom the Governor is expected to exercise his
executive power. The 13th Amendment provides that the function
of the Chief Minister and the Board of Ministers is ‘to aid and advice’ the
Provincial Governor in the exercise of his functions. So it is clear that
the Ministers of the Province do not have any discretionary power in the administration
of the province’
This group is confirming why the government has
valid reason not to trust PC’s. They are sure to abuse discretionary
powers. As an honest citizen you have the responsibility to write
about this also. Gaja
The discussion was about money collection to fund
individuals. As per my experience, including in Australian Public Service, the
older a system, the more important Due Processes of law become. They are the mantras
that bring us the Energy. At the University of NSW, I protested against
breaches of Due Processes in terms of Research Grants. I was persecuted for being
‘smart’ and eventually the University lost millions in money and status. Mine
went into the Common Pool of the true Voiceless Opposition. That which
is common, loses its individual identity in the process of becoming common.
Mr Iqbal raises the question ‘Devolution of
powers under the 13th Amendment in Sri Lanka: Fact or Fiction?’
The
indicators are in Mr Ameen Izadeen’s article headed ‘
13th Amendment: Power
devolution and beyond’ in which he states:
‘Despite
a costly separatist war, very little has changed in the attitude of the
proponents and opponents of power devolution since it was first mooted in the
late 1940s by minority Tamil leaders who had little trust in the post independence
Sinhala leaders.’
Hence the 13th Amendment was a fact born to Sri Lankan
Parliament as mother and Indian Parliament
as father. It died when the both parents
neglected it. Now they are trying to beat it back to life.
As believers in the system of Karma and Rebirth, both
groups would know that only our Truth is
reborn in different shape. Tamil politicians
seeking Police powers are promising separatism. Sinhala politicians declining
to devolve power are promising more disorderly supervision of the kind that
happened during the ethnic war, including the Black July pogrom.
Mere word agreement is like the body. The purpose of the
agreement is its soul. This soul already empowers those Sinhalese and Tamils
who trust each other and share that trust with their respective local
communities. In Jaffna social life, I do not know of any ethnic conflict. The
politicians relying on majority power
(Sinhalese in Sri Lanka’s and Tamils in Tamil Nadu’s) lack the intelligence to
work the whole. Both have to draw on the
power of the People who are independent of politicians.
I wrote recently to the above group:
When one gives blindly with belief, there is positive
completion and therefore, the Energy to continue. When one shows respect
without belief, it is false and therefore is for trade-off / quid pro quos.
This results in us becoming satisfied when our juniors also show false respect.
This extended to caste hierarchy. Majority militants who resorted to arms
were from junior castes. This is true of Sinhalese JVP also. Like
idle laws, elders also became idle – especially in democracy.
Fact has death. Intelligence based on Truth has no death or rebirth.
It is Eternally with the person/group that realizes it.
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