Just a few days back, our Minister of Disaster Management, Mahinda Amaraweera, was seen driving on the wrong side of the road up Bauddhaloka Mawatha, damaging another vehicle and subsequently threatening the female passenger of the damaged car for taking pictures of the accident scene, whilst a policeman stood in the middle of the road and observed the whole incident nonchalantly. Some goons of the Minister then entered the scene and threatened the lady and grabbed her camera. One of the goons then occupied the driver’s seat claiming that he was the one driving the vehicle and the Minister then went away – all the while the cop just standing and pretending not to have seen the incident. A passing three-wheel driver who observed the whole incident muttered: “this is what happens when one votes for animals” – which in one sentence summarized the very precarious situation the whole country is in. When the new IGP took over, one of his lofty ideals was to clean up and improve the Police service and when one witnesses this sort of incidents, one can easily surmise to what extent he has succeeded!
There are enough media reports of the so called “doctor” Minister Mervyn Silva threatening and tying government officials to trees and decreeing that in his fiefdom of Kelaniya, he will not permit the sale of beef and chicken, and sometimes back he even announced that he will ban bringing in vegetables to Kelaniya as he wanted every one living in his electorate to grow at least one vegetable in their gardens!
One wonders if this particular minister owns that part of the country which he claims to represent because if such prohibitions are to be implemented – most probably due to the ushering of a Dharma Raajya – then such bans should apply to the whole country, because as far as we know there is only one government in this country.
With all this talk of Kings and royal families with crown princes, and the ordinary people in their foolishness believing that the whole granary and treasury belongs to the King and his family as in the days of the ancient Sinhala kings, the inevitable question that arises is : Who owns this country?
There are enough media reports of the so called “doctor” Minister Mervyn Silva threatening and tying government officials to trees and decreeing that in his fiefdom of Kelaniya, he will not permit the sale of beef and chicken, and sometimes back he even announced that he will ban bringing in vegetables to Kelaniya as he wanted every one living in his electorate to grow at least one vegetable in their gardens!
One wonders if this particular minister owns that part of the country which he claims to represent because if such prohibitions are to be implemented – most probably due to the ushering of a Dharma Raajya – then such bans should apply to the whole country, because as far as we know there is only one government in this country.
With all this talk of Kings and royal families with crown princes, and the ordinary people in their foolishness believing that the whole granary and treasury belongs to the King and his family as in the days of the ancient Sinhala kings, the inevitable question that arises is : Who owns this country?
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