Like any other election in Sri Lanka, the Presidential election too is getting uglier by the day.
However I am getting confused trying to keep a track of the trends and swings, not because it’s getting uglier but because some of the outlandish claims made by the ruling party.
The first one is that if the main opponent comes to power that he will allow the defeated LTTE to rise up again, when everyone in Sri Lanka knows that the President barely made to the winning line last time even, only thanks to LTTE’s refusal to allow Tamils to cast their votes freely.
The rumours were rife then as to why the LTTE has acted in that fashion to assure his victory and to compound that suspicion, a photograph appeared in the Media not so long ago, the grooming scion was having a meeting with a well known LTTE Diaspora member in one of the western countries that he and his cronies despise so much only in public.
Another rumour now permeates is the way, very large sums of money recovered from one of the notorious LTTE leader now in captivity is being used during the election campaigns.
If the western capitalist societies are as decadent as they publically claimed then why many including his own clan do seek permanent residencies or send their children have their education to those countries.
The other claim is that the Sri Lankan economy is presently doing far better than any of the western capitalists’ economies. If our economy is far sounder than the western economies then why did we go begging to IMF for a massive loan? Has anyone compared the GDP per capita income of those countries with our?
I personally know how many of my countrymen are being stopped daily trying to board a flight with forged travel documents from this part of the world to one of the so-called decadent countries which are economically performing much lower than us presently, according to their claims.
If their comparisons are true and correct then the trend should have been the other way around where we should see many westerners clamouring to come to Sri Lanka to seek refuge, but unfortunately we are yet to witness something of that nature.
As the saying goes, they may be able to fool some people all the time but not all the people all the time.
The Sri Lankan people are much wiser than they think and yearning now for a change and that too also not just a change for the sake of change but a complete overhauling of the existing political dynastic system where a few think that key to public office is one of their birthrights.
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