People’s President, Mahinda Rajapaksa will be re-elected as President

By Dr. Levins T.C Rajaratnam

There is no need for canvassing. There is no need for predictions by soothsayers, astrologers and numerologists. It is evident that President Mahinda Rajapaksa would be re elected. The contribution to society over the years has made the Sri Lankans create an impact that there is no other leader who could lead Sri Lanka to prosperity, other than President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

 President Mahinda Rajapaksa has liberated the Nation. He is a People’s President who can mingle with anyone and everyone.

There is a conspiracy to betray the President but it cannot succeed.

“There go my people, I must follow them, for I am their Leader” were the words of Mahatma Ghandhi practiced to the very syllable by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. That is the secret of his success. On the 26th of January 2010 this would be re-endorsed by the Nation of Sri Lanka amidst the turbulent waves of politics and the intricacies of conspiracies by vested interests- President Mahinda Rajapaksa would be re-elected as the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

Thousands of men, women and children driven from their lands are preparing to return home. The demands of an outraged community have been met. We have achieved a victory for a safer world, for our democratic values, and for a stronger Sri Lanka.

Our Air force Pilots have returned to base. The air strikes have halted. The Naval boats have slowed their speed. The Army has slowed its pace. Aggression against  innocent people by the LTTE and the Terrorists also known as militants and Eelamists have been contained and is being turned back.

When the President ordered our armed forces into combat as the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, he had three clear goals: to enable the Tamil people, the victims of some of the most vicious atrocities in the North, to return to their homes with safety; to destroy the LTTE; and to deploy our armed Forces to protect all the people of the North. Those goals will be achieved. Unnecessary conflict has been brought to a just and honorable conclusion.

The Armed Forces should be commended they took the instructions of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Our Nation will express their gratitude to  President Mahinda Rajapaksa  at the Presidential election in January 2010. They will express their profound gratitude to the men and women of our armed forces and those of our allies. Day after day, night after night, they flew, risking their lives to attack their targets and to avoid civilian casualties when they were fired upon from populated areas. The credit would be to the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, President Mahinda Rajapaksa.,

The sorrow experienced by the people and the tears shed by them was for patriotism. We know the pain, the anguish and we too shudder to think of the darkest hours in our history in the process of destroying the LTTE. We appreciate the countries, the local People  who by sending generous assistance to the refugees and for opening their hearts and  homes to the innocent victims made the task of settling the IDP’s easier.

We fought and liberated the people held in hostage, what we achieved and what we have to do now to advance the peace and together with the people , forge a future of freedom, progress and harmony. This can be done only under the leadership of President Mahinda Rajapaksa

The Terrorists were the cause for Men of all ages separated from their loved ones killed and forced to join the Terrorists, children made to watch their parents die; a whole people forced to abandon in hours communities their families had spent generations building.

For these atrocities, the Tamil militants are responsible the LTTE and their allies whether they were in the past or not whether they have reformed or not all of them are collectively responsible for the disasters and killings. We should be cautious not to align them but to treat them and rehabilitate them. Recent history has proved that Terrorists in whatever garb will try to revive their traits in some form or the other and would never be loyal to a democratically elected Leader or the Government.

The President met with the IDP’s. Some of them could barely talk about what they had been through. All they had left was hope that the world would not turn its back. The President was deeply moved by them. The President has settled a large number of IDP’s he has provided housing, shelter, healthcare, education and sustenance. Moreover, by his personal visit he has touched their hearts and in turn they have touched his by their appreciation.

When our diplomatic efforts to avert this horror with the LTTE were rebuffed, and the violence mounted, the President took affirmative action. Now the people are free, the roads that were closed for years have opened, the people have been liberated.

The schools have re-opened , they have freedom to  shape their destiny.

No more nights of hiding in bunkers cellars, wondering if the next day will bring death or deliverance.

Now, the Tamil people must join hands with the Muslims, the Singhalese, the Burghers and Malays and assist President Rajapaksa to continue the development work.

Finally, we have averted the wider war this conflict might well have sparked.  Now, we’re entering a new phase – building that peace – and there are formidable challenges, the foremost amongst them is the stability of Leadership and the Government.

We must get the refugees home safely. Minefields will have to be cleared. Homes destroyed by the war will have to be rebuilt. Homeless people in need of food and medicine will have been assisted and day in and day out they are gradually settled. The fate of the missing will have to be determined. We in the peacekeeping force will have to ensure that Sri Lanka is a safe place to live for all its citizens. But this next phase also will be dangerous. Bitter memories will still be fresh, we have to prevent vested interests from exploiting the situation by mud slinging campaigns perpetrated by the opposition and its allies whilst still be cautious of those amongst us who may betray especially the Terrorists groups whose survival was dependant on the survival of the LTTE. In this regard it was best for President Mahinda Rajapaksa to have visited the North without the assistance of militant groups and their political parties.

When President Rajapaksa addresses the Tamil people directly, he has been and will be acknowledged by the people. All the Tamil groups and parties with blood in their hands cannot convince the Tamil people. The Tamil people have now learnt by their mistakes and misunderstanding that the democratically elected President Mahinda Rajapaksa is their only salvation.

We must pave a path to a prosperous shared future, a unifying magnet more powerful than the pull of hatred and destruction that has threatened to tear us apart.

As long as any form of Terrorism remains and terrorists of bygone eras are allies, as long as we give prominence to criminals and terror groups the journey for development will be far sighted.

Our Government represents tolerance and freedom, not repression and terror. As such every individual or group which transgresses these ideals should be dealt with by the Laws of the land. The people are tired of the few unruly elements.

We have sent a message of determination and hope to all the world. Think of all the millions of innocent people who died in this bloody century because democracies reacted too late to evil and aggression.

Because of our resolve, the new year has dawned, not with helpless indignation, but with a hopeful affirmation of human dignity and human rights for the 2010. In a world too divided by fear among people of different racial, ethnic and religious groups, we have given confidence to the friends of freedom and pause to those who would exploit human difference for inhuman purposes.

Sri Lanka still faces great challenges in this world, but we look forward to meeting them. We can successfully maintain the territorial integrity of Sri Lanka by re-electing President Mahinda Rajapaksa is the only Leader in the world who liberated the country. We must stand united as Patriots of Sri Lanka to support and defend the saviour of the Nation, President Mahinda Rajapaksa