Rajapakse Govt. has no plans, no policies, no programs - UNP

(October, 09, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sri Lanka main opposition United National Part’s member Johnston Fernando addressing a Media briefing today (09 Oct) at the UNP Media Unit said that President Rajapakse who pretended as the Hero of the cause of the labourers and workers of Sri Lanka before becoming the President is now viciously destroying their rights . When graduates who have been deserted by him strike, he takes Court action or uses Police force. Similarly, when workers fight for their legitimate rights, he craftily uses his powers to jail or remand them. Can you believe that this is the Hero who even brought legislation in Parliament though unsuccessfully under SLFP in favour of the workers? He asked.

This Hero has now become Zero in all aspects of his Presidential performance since his advent. Not one promise in the Mahinda Chintana has been honoured. On the contrary, every solace promised to the people has been made a menace to them.

This is the first time in Sri Lanka; everything has gone out of control including control over the largest Cabinet of Ministers in the World. Price hikes on goods are made by the hour. The price in the morning is not the price in the evening – it has risen! What his Ministers say today is not what they say tomorrow. One Minister makes some utterance only to be contradicted by another, the next moment. President promulgates one policy here, when he goes abroad he talks of another. What he promises today is forgotten when he wakes up .Only one thing the President does well is unjustly nourishing himself and his family by corruption and nepotism at the expense of the interests of the country and the people .

Every Ministry is in a muddle. After the Education Minister ruined the education of the children, now Minister for Health, Nimal Siripala is trying to introduce a Health Management Service .The whole objective of this sinister scheme is to promote all his incompetent political appointees who are in thousands to this Managerial grade. This is another characteristic of this Govt. which always seeks to serve only its political expediency, and not the country’s interests.

When price hikes are imposed on the already suffering masses, each Minister has a comic answer in keeping with his ‘joker’ character (Cabinet now comprises Jokers, not Ministers). The Minister for Consumer Affairs, more popularly known as the joker of the century, after raising the price of bread says, bread is injurious to health, and that is why he raised it.

‘The President, when the price of milk food is raised, asks the people to drink buffalo milk. May be, he has realised this after he rubbed shoulders with his buffaloes at his recent buffalo display in the paddy fields. The agonised public, of course, are of the view that he has buffalo milk and not mother’s milk in his system.’ he quipped.

In the history of Sri Lanka, this Rajapakse Administration has created a record for becoming the most unpopular, the most corrupt and most tyrannical Govt. ever to have exploited its powers (given by he people) and country’s resources only for self nourishment of its family and its 108 Ministers (largest Cabinet in the World) destroying the freedom., liberties and peace of the people driving them to abject starvation and frustration..Johnston said, the Govt. too is aware of this, but its greed for power and corrupt desires do not permit it to hand over the reins gracefully. Therefore, it will get the G R O B R (Good riddance of Bad rubbish) very soon. The UNP will decide when this should be done, he concluded.