UPFA Galle District Mp's openly criticize the Anti Democratic Family Goverment !

Parliamentarians representing the UPFA from the Galle District have come forward to openly criticize the anti democratic government as a result of the massive dissension growing within the anti democratic government against the Rajapaksas. These details have surfaced when a journalist had questioned these parliamentarians about the development activities in the Galle District.


Parliamentarian Ramesh Pathirana had said he had entered politics after giving up his job at Hayleys that paid him a monthly salary of Rs. 6 lakhs due to his faith in the promises given by the President. Nevertheless, Ramesh had said he was unable to even get a road built by his late father Richard Pathirana repaired.
 
Meanwhile, MP Nishantha Mutuhettigama has said that although he had worked fro the President's victory by selling his 25 acre tea estate, he did not have any provisions to help his supporters or the people in his area.
Senior Minister Piyasena Gamage had said that he was being continuously victimized by the President, who is angry over the religious activities organized by his sister against the injustice faced by her husband.


He said that when Basil Rajapaksa left the SLFP and worked with then Minister Gamini Dissanayake after joining the UNP, SLFP Leader at the time Sirimavo Bandaranaike never victimized Mahinda Rajapaksa fro Basil's actions.


Several other parliamentarians from the Galle District have also expressed their displeasure over the step motherly treatment meted out to the District. However, they have told the journalist that they were afraid to make any comments at the moment.

Percy Mahinda's Regime won 205, 9 for UNP, 12 for ITAK out of 234 Local Goverment Bodies

Rajapakse Regime had won 205 LG bodies out of 234, United National Party (UNP) had won 9 and Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) had won 12, SLMC 04, National Congress 02, UPF 01, Independent Group 01


The Popularity of Rajapakse Family Regime has gone down in most of the areas compared to the percentage of votes they polled in last General Election. While UNP voter percentage has gone up so far except in Northern Province, where UNP was washed off completly. 


JVP lost it's stronghold Thissamaharamma and slipped down to 3rd place while UNP became opposition their.... 


If JVP had contested in a coaltion with UNP, Oppostion would have won more local goverment bodies.Also if SLMC was with UNP, such a coalition would have also helped to gain some more Local Bodies as well.


Also Urban Counncils Postphoned by Dictator Percy would have easily won by UNP or ITAK if kept with yeasterday's election.  


Beginning of the downfall and end of  Dictator Percy and his family Regime is not much far away...

UPFA 128 UNP 7 ITAK 10 so far !

The ruling UPFA has obtained the power of 128 local bodies at the LG polls 2011, according to the results released in 150 bodies.


Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) has won ten Councils, including Mannar Urban Council and Pradeshiya Sabha, Vavauniya PS, Manathai East PS, Trincomalee UC and Naveenthanveli PS.


The UNP has obtained the power of six councils, including Kuliyapitiya UC, Gampola UC, Bandarawela MC, Kadugannawa UC and Kalutara UC. They would have won more, if postponed Urban Councils were held on this occasion ( Postponed purposely by dictator Rajapakse as he feared that he will lose those urban councils ).  UNP's Voter Percentage has gone up compared to last ruling regime biased general election.  


Three other parties, SLMC, UCPF, National Congress and Independent Group have won one council each.

Minister S.B. is to offer 25000 computer tender to Thilanga Sumathipala !

Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake has decided to offer the tender of buying 25,000 computers for the use of university students to his funding partner, Casino Owner and UPFA MP, Thilanga Sumathipala.

The Secretary to the ministry Sunil Jayantha Navaratne has called for proposals on 10th March 2011. Technical specifications of computers mentioned in the call for tenders were prepared only to suit Lenova brand computers which are produced by a private company belong to Mr Thilanga Sumathipala.

Ministry sources say that many companies planned to apply for the tender were prevented the opportunity as a result.

Billionaire, Casino & Bookie Owner Thilanga Sumathipala has been the main funder for S.B Dissanayake while he was in the UNP as well as with the SLFP alliences. Extremely disappointed of Rajapaksa regime’s politics, the pair is turning into similar tender irregularities to raise funds for a future political campaign against Rajapaksas, say political analysts.

UPFA Government Heavyweights Urge MR to axe Mahinda Abesundara from all his current posts !

According to the news we received, the several Government heavyweights had asked President Mahinda Rajapakse to take immediate action to remove Mahinda Abesundara from all the posts currently holding which were offered to him by President as well as by Government to protect Namal Rajapakse who too had being criticized for bogus match fixing charges leveled against Mahela Jayawardena and Thilan Samaraweera. 

Currently Mahinda Abesudara hold the following positions;   Presentational Advisor to Percy Mahinda,  Chief Editor Silumina and script Writer for the ITN Vimasumma Programme.

Mahinda Abesundara had told to his news paper colleague's that Sanath Jayasuriya and Namal Rajapakse forced him to write match fixing charges against Former Captain, now vice captain Mahela Jayawardena and middle order batsman Thilan Samaraweera   

LAUGFS GAS PRICES GOES UP by RS.96 in SL- New Price Rs.1652

The price of a domestic 12.5 kg Laugfs gas cylinder will be increased by Rs. 96 from 3rd of March 3. The new Price will be Rs. 1652 per cylinder. Price of Litro gas prices will remain as earlier according to the Consumer Affairs Authority.

The UPFA Government did start printing Rs.5000 notes very recently, which indicates that the value of the  rupee had depreciated. The cost of other good, specially day to day food items likely to rise as a result.

UPFA Minister Ask (as a bribe) Rs.30 lakhs to offer a License & Permission for a Cable TV !

A government minister has asked sum of Rs. 30 lakhs to get the relevant license and permission for a cable TV network to operate in major cities, according to a reliable source from the Media Ministry.


Permission to commence a cable TV network is being sought by a person known as  Sudesh, who operates a private hospital in colombo.


The minister had asked for the bribe to get permission for the cable TV to operate in the Kotahena and Negombo areas.
   

We Will organize a Libya type protests - Says Vijitha Herath

It is the responsibility of the political parties to organize a people’s struggle similar to other countries like Libya. The JVP will undertake this responsibility on behalf of the masses, JVP Propaganda Secretary Vijitha Herath said today in a press conference.


Most political analyst point out that if JVP can get the support of UNP & other minor parties for such a protest, it will be not imposible to do like what happend in Egypt & Tunisia, while in progress in Libya.


Currently the Country is ruled by President Percy Mahinda & his UPFA Coalition.   

More & More Rules to Western Province - New ways to Increase Revenue !

According to a daily news paper,  the Government is going to charge Rs 5000 ($50) from vehicle owners if they park on pavements. When we spoke to several shop owners regarding this new issue, most of them mentioned that "If we can't park in front of our own shop. we will stop doing business here. We will move to some other place or even to Maldives where we can park our vehicles as well as customers in front of our shops! ". Also people who will not use pedestrian crossing will be produce in court.


It is learnt that these are going to be imposed in order to increase government revenue as UPFA Government's internal & external revenue has gone down in recent past. Also the funds forcefully  taken from KP too has gone down (Some believe that his funds were used in 2010 Presidential Election too).


According to another reliable source,  Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) is definitly going to be sold to cover up the expendicture of the Goverment which consist of a massive Cabinet.

Already the ruling party had sold several valuable land at a cheap rate to overseas firms & individuals to start casinos & hotels.


We will have to wait and see what will happen after the upcoming election...

UPFA FILES 20 PETITIONS !

The UPFA today filed 20 petitions at the Court of Appeals against the rejection of nomination papers presented for the Local Government election which will be in May 17th. petitions was submitted by UPFA General Secretary Susil Premajayantha. Several Officials including the Election Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake have been named as respondents.

The petitions have been filed for Local Government institutions such as Kilinochchi, Valikamam, Jaffna, Point Pedro, Karainagar, Delft Island, Chavakachcheri Municipal Councils and Velanai Pradeshiya Sabha.The petitions state that the respective District Secretaries had rejected the nomination papers stating errors in the Tamil translations presented with the nominations. According to the translation, "Front" in tamil was used instead of stating as "allience". (UPFA is a Allience not a Front according to the way it's written)


The decision taken to reject these nomination papers is unlawful the General Secretary Susil Premajayantha points out and therefore requests the Appeal Court to order the Election Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayaka to re-accept the nominations.

Sri lanka general election results 2010

General Election Results



UPFA: 4,797,272 (60.43%) (seats: 117)
UNP/UNF : 2,336,691 (29.43%) (seats: 46)
DNA : 439,601 (5.54%) (seats: 5)
ITAK(TNA) : 212,590 (2.68%) (seats: 12)

(180 seats from total of 225 so far)

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Elected Members for the Parliment of Sri lanka
(General election 2010 Preferential votes)

(Western Province)

Gampaha District

UPFA (12 seats):

Basil Rajapakse....................................425,861
Sudarshani Fernandopulle.................186,140
Dr.Mervin Silva...................................151,085
Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera........112,010
Felix Perera............................................69,938
Ruwan Ranathunga...............................66,488
Lasantha Alagiyawanna........................65,939
Sarana Gunawardena............................61,150
Dulip Wijesekara....................................51,469
Wasantha Senanayake..........................51,124
Pandu Bandaranayake..........................49,613
Sarath Kumara Gunarathne................46,040

UNF (5 seats):

Ruwan Wijewardena.............................88,550
Upeksha Swarnamali............................81,350
Karu Jayasuriya....................................60,310
Jayalath Jayawardena..........................58,302
John Amarathunga................................52,331

DNA (1 seat):

Vijitha Herath.......................................50,967


Kaluthara District

UPFA (7 seats):

Kumara Welgama..............................124,766
Mahinda Samarasinghe......................97,778
Nirmala Kotalawela............................82,044
Rohitha Abeygunawardena...............77,205
Rajitha Senarathne.............................66,710
Reginold Cooray..................................60,196
Vidura Wickremenayake...................50,114

UNF (2 seats):

Palitha Thewarapperuma.................51,153
Ajith P Perera.....................................48,588

DNA (1 seat):

Arjuna Ranathunga...........................27,796

Colombo District

UPFA (10 seats):

Wimal Weeranwansa.....................280,672
R Duminda Silva.............................146,336
Champika Ranawaka.....................120,333
Dinesh Gunawardena.....................116,860
Bandula Gunawardena.....................64,654
Thilanga Sumathipala.......................60,848
Susil Premajayantha.........................54,702
A H M Fawzie.....................................51,641
Jeewan Kumaranathunga................51,080
Gamini Lokuge..................................49,750

UNF (7 seats):

Ranil Wickremesinghe..................230,957
Ravi Karunanayake.........................70,328
Mohan Lal Grero.............................60,008
Rosy Senanayake............................66,357
Wijayadasa Rajapakse...................60,030
Sujeewa Senasinghe.......................52,559
Prabha Ganeshan...........................42,851

DNA (2 seat):

General (rtd) Sarath Fonseka.......98,456
Sunil Hadunnethi.............................78,126

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(Southern Province)

Galle District

UPFA (7 seats):

Nishantha Muthuhettigama........124,368
Ramesh Pathirana..........................94,317
Gunarathne Weerakoone..............67,895
Piyasena Gamage...........................66,301
Chandima Weerakkodi..................66,190
Sajin Vaas Gunawardena..............53,620
Mohan Priyadarshana De Silva...48,756

UNF (2 seats):

Manusha Nanayakkara................47,060
Gayantha Karunatilake................46,168

DNA (1 seat):

Ajith Kumara..................................15,872

Matara District

UPFA (6 seats):

Sanath Jayasuriya........................74,352
Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena.....70,439
Laksman Yapa Abeywardena....67,510
Chandrasiri Gajadeera................51,042
Hemal Gunasekara......................51,013
Vijaye Dahanayake......................44,463

UNF (2 seats):

Buddhika Pathirana....................62,499
Mangala Samaraweera...............59,836

Hambantota District

UPFA (5 seats):

Namal Rajapakse......................147,566
Mahinda Amaraweera.............105,414
Chamal Rajapakse......................79,648
Nirupama Rajapakse.................39,025
V K Indika...................................37,626

UNF (2 seats):

Sajith Premadasa.......................74,467
Dilip Wedaarachchi...................47,160

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(Northern Province)

Jaffna District

ITAK (5 seats):

Mavai Senathirajah...................20,501
Suresh Premachandra..............16,425
A.Vinayagamurthi.....................15,311
E Saravanabawan......................14,961
Sivaganam Sridharan................10,057

UPFA (3 seats):

Douglas Devananda...................28,585
Silvestri Udayan........................13,128
M Chandrakumar.......................8,105

UNF (1 seat):

Maheshwaran Vijayakala..........7,850


Vanni District

ITAK (3 seats):

Selvam Adaikkalanathan.........17,366
Sivasakthi Ananthan................11,674
S Primius Seraiva.....................10,609

UPFA (2 seats):

Abdul Rishad Bathiudeen....... ?
Unais Farook............................ ?

UNF (1 seat):

Noordheen Mshoor....................9,518

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(Central Province)

Matale District

UPFA ( 4 seats):

Lakshman Wasantha Perera..65,077
Janaka Bandara Tennakoon...47,133
Nandimithra Ekanayake.........35,754
Rohana Kumara Dissanayake.32,803


UNF ( 1 seats):

Wasantha Aluvihare.................31,529


Nuwara Eliya District

UPFA ( 5 seats):

Arumungum Thondaman........60,997
V.Radhakrishnan......................54,083
Sudaram P Rajadurai...............49,228
Navin Dissanayake...................43,514
C B Rathnayake.........................41,345

UNF ( 2 seats):

Palani Digambaram..................39,490
Sri Ranga Jeyaratnam.............33,948


Kandy District

UPFA ( seats):

UNF ( seats):

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(Eastern Province)

Trincomalee District

UPFA ( seats):

UNF ( seats):


Batticaloa District

ITAK ( 3 seats):

S Logeshvaran......................20,569
Pon Selvarasa.......................18,485
P Ariyanenthiran.................16,504

UPFA ( 1 seat):

M L A M Hisbullah.............22,256

UNF ( 1 seat):

Basheer Shegudawood.....11,678


Digamadulla District

UPFA (4 seats):

S Weerasekara...............54,373
A L M Ataulla.................36,943
Sriyani Wijewickrama...33,810
P Dayarathne.................32,915

UNF ( 2 seats):

H M M Haris.................44,755
M C M Faizal.................41,852

ITAK (1 seat):

P M P Piyasena............11,139

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(North Western Province)

Kurunegala District

UPFA ( 10 seats):

Jhonston Fernando................136,943
T B Ekanayake.......................112,420
Anura P Yapa...........................98,380
A M Shantha Bandara.............86,353
S B Nawinna..............................74,976
Jayarathne Herath..................64,645
Salinda Dissanayake...............56,842
Neranjan Wickremesignhe....54,572
Indika Bandaraayake.............48,665
Tharanath Basnayake............46,079

UNF ( 5 seats):

Dayasiri Jayasekara.............132,949
Akila Viraj Kariyawasam.......66,476
Gamini Jayawickreme...........44,131
Ashok R Abeysinghe..............32,990
Shamal S Wijesignhe..............30,687


Puttalam District

UPFA ( 6 seats):

Priyankara Jayarathne.........56,098
Arundika Fernando...............55,889
Dayasritha Tissera................37,704
Victor A Diyanwala...............35,299
Neomal Perera......................32,181
Milroy Fernando...................31,509

UNF ( 2 seats):

Palitha Range Bandara........36,861
Niroshan Perera...................28,077

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(North Central Province)

Anuradhapura District

UPFA ( 7 seats):

S M Chandrasena...............112,644
Duminda Dissanayake.......101,384
Tissa Karalliyadda...............55,017
Asanka S Semasinghe.........46,115
Sarath C Muthukumarana.44,645
W B Ekanayake...................40,634
W Dissanayake....................27,102

UNF ( 2 seats):

Chandrani Bandara............29,884
P Harison.............................24,675

Polonnaruwa District

UPFA ( 4 seats):

Maithripala Sirisena..........90,118
Roshan Ranatunga............56,223
Siripala Gamlath...............53,973
C Sooriyaarachchi.............44,356

UNF ( 1 seat):

Earl Gunasekara..............26,925

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(Uva Province)

Badulla District

UPFA ( 6 seats):

Nimal Siripala de Silva...141,990
Dilan Perera......................69,610
Leel C Buddhadasa..........42,856
Udith S Lokubandara......38,124
Rohana Puspakumara.....36,080
Amith T Vidanagamge.....34,742

UNF ( 2 seats):

Harin Fernando................49,073
Lakshman Seevirathne...31,560

Monaragela District

UPFA ( 4 seats):

Jagath Puspakumara......67,903
G Vijith W Zoyza.............54,516
Sumeda Jayasena...........45,837
Vijitha Berugoda.............43,001

UNF ( 1 seat):

Ranjith M Bandara.........15,105

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(Sabaragamuwa Province)

Kegalle District

UPFA ( 7 seats):

Ranjith Siyabalapitiya..141,935
Athauda Senevirathne...67,719
Kanaka Herath...............63,136
Y G Pathmasiri..............61,582
Lalith Dissanayake........49,224
Jagath Balasuriya..........47,294
H R Mithrapala..............37,745

UNF ( 2 seats):

Kabir Hashim.................48,344
Champika Premadasa...40,914

Ratnapura District

UPFA ( 7 seats):

John Senevirathne.......125,816
P Wanniarachchi..........110,220
Premalal Jayasekara......73,175
Janaka Wakkubura........70,473
Vasudeva Nanayakkara.56,493
Ranjith de Zoyza..............47,147
Sunny Rohana..................37,902

UNF ( 3 seats):

Thalatha Athukprale......64,592
Rajan Ramanayake.........59,318
Dunesh H Gankanda.......34,219

Sanath Jayasuriya coming to politics while still being a national team player

One time master blaster now had entered politics.Any one has the freedom to come to politics but the bad thing is that he had entered to politics while still playing for Sri Lanka National Team.So UPFA had brought politics to current cricket players too.Arjuna Ranathunga and Hashan Thilakarathne came to politics after saying good bye to cricket as they are real Gentleman's according to myself.

He is an outstanding attacking batsman and a good part time spinner who had served the country at many a times without any dought but last 3-4 years he represented national team thanks to the head of Sri Lanka (as Sanath is still his favorite).Many youngsters couldn't get an opportunity as he had being occupying the national team opening batting slot for last few years even without any good batting performance.Cricket is a sport that can make you get lot of dollars in legal way to hand while politics is another way that it helps to get dollars or rupees in legal as well as other way. So all can understand very well what is he up to?(but I hope he will do better for country too like in 1996 worldcup if gets elected!).

Also according to some sources,Current SL Vice Captain Miralitharan is to contest Nuwara Eliya District from UPFA.Some says that these are candidates fielded in UPFA under the support of "Nil Balakaya"(Blue Brigade) of Namal Rajapakse who too contest from Habbanthota but some says Murali was brought to contest by S B Dissanayake. If Sanath wins,he will win with a large number of votes but if he loose,it will by a large margin.Still can't say anything about Murali.

Finally what I have to say is that, it is really bad to bring politcs to national cricket team.Also cricket fans will too get politicized as a result and it will lead to the rapid (as it is already happening to some level)downfall of cricket in Sri Lanka.

Ranil Wickramasinghe a clean politician but the weakest party leader in Sri Lanka

In Sri Lanka,a political party leader should have a strong backbone when taking decisions but we don't see it from him since 1994.His party which is the biggest party in Sri Lanka had being now in opposition for nearly 14 years since then.So many party stalwarts had crossed over to government as most of them had understood that under Mr.Ranil Wickramasinghe's leadership, they cannot come in to power (most of the cross overs may not be clean but cannot help under the way Sri Lankan politics is done).

He had appointed as well as favor only politicians who are not a threat to him as well as most organizers are weak political wise in their respective areas.His deputy too is a weak character (who crossed over to the government and then came back!).He does not take any advice from politicians who are well favored and/or respected by common people.

A political party should have politicians who can talk well for the masses at various situations,but now UNP has only very few like that as most had crossed over.Dayasiri Jayasekara,Sajith Premadasa,Buddika Pathirana (Recently emerged) and Ranjan Ramanayake (Recently emerged) and few more.So who knows what will happen for some of them after upcoming General Election?.

Also if he had managed to hold power some how in 2003 current situation wouldn't have occured.Also he had a chance to take power in 2004 election too as UPFA had only 105(+1 EPDP) seats which was a minority and if he had taken the support of JHU.Now the UNP voter base had got eroded to a vast level which is at a situation where recovery is some what very difficult.

UNP had won only 2 elections since 1994,So continuous loosing of UNP is not something for us to wonder..! It will continue as long as he is the leader....!

Sri Lanka General Election 2010 Prediction / Likely Results

Considering the recently held Presidential Election Results (if results are true!) the Government Coalition will have a majority in Parliament.The following is the predicted results after analyzing 2010 Presidential Election together with 2001 and 2004 General Elections.

UPFA : 124 (+4 or -4)
UNP(UNF/NDF) : 75 (+ 4 or - 4)
TNA : 18 (+-3)
EPDP: 2
SLMC: 6 (-1/-2)


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Total: 225
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But results can get change to some extent or even completely other way around,if something happen to General SF.

Note: SLMC will get above no of seats in areas where it will contest along.Also above results are including all districts as well as National List Seats.If JVP contest along they will get between 1 -5 seats which has to be deducted from UNF/NDF.

Sri Lanka Presidential Election 2010 Results:


Mahinda Rajapakse (UPFA) : 57.88% (Votes: 6,015,934)
General Sarath Fonseka (NDF): 40.15% (Votes: 4,173,185)


Sri Lanka General Election 2004 Results:


UPFA: 109 (Votes: 4,223,970 Percentage: 45.60% Seats: 92 National List: 13)
UNF: 77 (Votes: 3,504,200 Percentage: 37.83% Seats: 71 Natioanal List: 11)
TNA: 20 (Votes: 633,654 Percentage: 6.84% Seats: 20 Natioanl List: 2)
JHU: 16 (Votes: 554,076 Percentage: 5.97% Seats: 7 Natioanal List: 2)
SLMC: 5 (Votes: 186,876 Percentage: 2.02% Seats: 4 Natioanl List: 1)
UPF: 1 (Votes: 49,728 Percentage: 0.54% Seats: 1 Natioanl List: 0)
EPDP: 1 (Votes: 24,955 Percentage: 0.27% Seats: 1 Natioanl List: 0)


Total: 225
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Sri Lanka General Election 2001 Results:


UNF: 109 (Votes: 4,086,026 Percentage: 45.62% Seats: 96 National List: 13)
PA: 77 (Votes: 3,330,815 Percentage: 37.19% Seats: 66 Natioanal List: 11)
JVP: 16 (Votes: 815,353 Percentage: 9.0% Seats: 13 Natioanal List: 3)
TNA: 15 (Votes: 348,164 Percentage: 3.89% Seats: 15 Natioanl List: 1)
SLMC: 5 (Votes: 105,346 Percentage: 1.18% Seats: 5 Natioanl List: 1)
EPDP: 2 (Votes: 72,783 Percentage: 0.81% Seats: 2 Natioanl List: 0)


Total: 225
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(UNF is a coalition formed by UNP while PA & UPFA are coalitions of SLFP and some other parties-The Ruling party had a majority support but then President Chandrika Kumaranathunga dissolved the parliament using her executive presidential powers which she later said it was a big mistake done by her in her life).