Two opposition MPs join the Government
Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma
(Pix by: Chandana Perera)
Two opposition parliamentarians Prabha Ganesan and P. Digambaram have crossed over from the opposition and joined the Government this morning (5th August) at Temple Trees .
Prabha Ganesan of Democratic People’s Front and P.Digambaram of the National Union of Workers Front contested the last General Election in April 2010 under the elephant symbol of the United National Front from Colombo and Nuwara Eliya districts respectively. According to the government information and President Media Unit, after a brief meeting with the President Rajapaksa today, both opposition MPs agreed to extend their support to the government.
However Prabha’s bother and the leader of the Democratic People’s Front Mano Ganesan was not present at this occasion. Former MP Mano Ganesan who campaigned with the opposition front against President Mahinda Rajapaksa lost in the last general election.
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The crossover of the two Tamil MPs from the opposition benches is good news for HE the President’s genuine efforts for peace and reconcilliation in the aftermath of the complete annhilation of the evil LTTE terrorists and the liberation of our nation of diverse cultures and races. The Tamils are thereby showing to the world we are one multi cultural and multi racial nation called the Sri Lankans. We are proud to be Sri Lankans working together as ONE to rapidly develop our country to be economically and culturally the richest nation in SE Asia. The imperial West can then come begging one day, cap in hand, to our door.
The message is loud and clear to the extremists who try to sow the seed of dissention, though we have distinct ethnic origins from ancient North and South India with distinct cultures, over the many centuries we have developed to be a distinct Sri Lankan nation. It is only the few rabid extremist elements among us who try to cause racial hatred and strife. This paved the way for the imperial West to once again stir-up such rivalries, fish in troubled waters, for their own evil scheme of neo-colonial rule over us. The simple peasant from Medamulana put-paid to the imperial West’s grand scheme of superpower control over us, as the Lord above has decreed. Today the imperial West is struggling to survive with their own economies in doldrums. I cannot help but gloat at their downfall. Greece, Spain, Portugal, Britain and Ireland are all heading for banruptcy. They have no more small nations to pillage and grow rich in as in the colonial times. They have now a huge problem in their hands to rebuild their battered capitalist economies. Damn good!