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15 June 2024

Gajalakshmi Paramasivam

 

                                                    Picture courtesy  koormai.com

 

 

COMMON OPPOSITION TO SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT

ARE COMMON VICTIMS OF AUTOCRACY

 

Mr Neelaakandar Kandasamy of the Sri Lanka Reconciliation Forum Sydney,

said , discussions in Tamil community, were currently cantered around the Common Presidential   candidate in the upcoming Sri Lankan elections.

This has been confirmed by  Mr.Amirthanayagam Nixon, Senior Journalist, Editor – koormai.com, in his Colombo Telegraph article, headed ‘Why A Tamil Common Candidate In The Presidential Election?’ I thought about it. In 1977, Tamil politicians were promoted to Equal status in national parliament. This happened due to common voters in all communities, including Sinhalese who felt Sri Lankan, in their own ways.  My reasoning for this included    Vaddukoddai Resolution 1976.  Truth delivered Equal status outcome in the National Parliament,  including through Sinhalese voters, who demoted the Sinhalese government. That is the way of Truth.

 

Mr. Nixon  seates:

‘Civil society organizations are leading this initiative in a democratic way. Attempting to field a Tamil common candidate in the presidential election is not a racist act. It is a democratic right.’

 

So one needs to appreciate that the victims of autocracy are reason for defeat of an autocratic government. In other words, the group becomes common victims. One who continues to be self governing in autocracy, becomes a leading reason for change. S/he is the cause of change.

Reliable Administration is the Natural Opposition of  majority power.  Former is vertical power and latter is lateral power.  The right to be Equal before the law is fundamental in democracy.

One who is true to fundamentals of democracy, will oppose unequal opportunities. This accumulates ownership through an alternate pathway. But the corpus needs to be the same. One cannot be north and the other south.

To be effective, all minorities, including Muslims & Burghers , need to be represented in the Opposition. After the expulsion of over 70,000 Muslims from the Northern Province, in 1990, is a block against forming democratic commonness. But where majority in opposition are against such expulsion, the power base becomes clean.

If majority seek to be democratic Equal Opportunity is essential. It requires forgoing  higher status to be Equal except in Administration. Tamils have a rich heritage in reliable administration. This is the pathway to develop Opposition to the autocratic presidency.