{"id":244193,"date":"2025-11-07T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=244193"},"modified":"2025-11-14T17:50:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:20:42","slug":"clean-sri-lanka-misunderstood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/clean-sri-lanka-misunderstood\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cClean Sri Lanka\u201d Misunderstood"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Fr J.C. Pieris<\/a>\u00a0\u2013<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Fr Chryso Pieris SJ<\/p><\/div>\n

The context<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe the government has not noticed it, but I have. A whole lot of utter rubbish and downright lies against the one-year-old Malima government are being spread in the rural sector and in small towns. The Spring Valley Road in Badulla was a disgrace full of pot holes. It is the road that leads to the (Catholic) Bishop\u2019s House at Rock Hill. For the last 40 years or more every bishop complained to and requested the various powers that were to repair the road properly. Nothing ever happened; only the road became worse after every rainy season. Within a year of the new Malima government\u2019s take over, I was pleasantly surprised to see, the road was beautifully broadened and carpeted. But, believe me, somebody, not an uneducated rustic, told me that Harin Fernando did it. I was flabbergasted! Angrily, I corrected him. This is not an isolated incident; I have heard a few more similar baseless lies. What do you expect from the Baias when their leader loudly and dramatically shoots off strings of lies in the parliament. If you throw a lot of mud, something is bound to stick, seems to be their Goebbel-plan behind their diabolical behavior.<\/p>\n

The latest Lie<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The latest lie propagated by the opposition is that \u201cClean Sri Lanka<\/a><\/span>\u201d (CSL) project has failed and Anura Kumara Dissanayake<\/a><\/span> (AKD) has started a new Big Lie called \u201cRatama Ekata<\/em>\u201d (RE). Those who spread this lie are either total idiots or degenerate scoundrels. \u201cRE\u201d is a national drive to eradicate drugs and drug traffickers from our Island. It teaches us that this enormous task is the responsibility of not only the Police and the Government but also of each and every citizen of this country. When previous governments were in power the normal routine was to take the underworld drug trafficker who is caught to show where the hidden weapons are and kill him off extra judicially. The police do not do this on their own. Somebody who wanted to silence the underworld hoodlum ordered it. It must be somebody above the Police. And that is the government. Now you know who the real drug lords are, and why the present opposition is in a panic mode running around like headless chicken spitting lies endlessly.<\/p>\n

\u201cRatama Ekata\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The national drive to eradicate harmful drugs and to clean up the underworld that spread it was inaugurated by AKD recently. If you have not heard AKD\u2019s speech in that occasion, you have missed something. It was AKD at his best. The very fact that now the underworld traffickers who get caught are not extra judicially silenced proves that the current 159 NPP MPs and AKD are drug-clean. The gist of the speech was that every adult citizen of the country must see to it that the next generation is free of drug use. We owe it to them. All the children of Sri Lanka are our sons and daughters. It is our national parental duty. The RE is one aspect of CSL RE does not replace CSL RE is implementing an important part of CSL<\/p>\n

\u201cClean Sri Lanka\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

CSL is the complete overhaul of our country. It is like pushing your hand into a pillow case and pulling it inside out. Cleaning up the governance has taken place to a great extent. Kudos to NPP. It was not that difficult for all of them were highly motivated and knew what they were getting into. The motivation was nothing less than Love, love for the country and its people. That is the foundation of \u201cPohosath Ratak and Lassana Jeevithayak\u201d. But the vast government administrative sector is not easily motivated and moved \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. unless the wrongdoers are judicially punished. And it is being done, of course, the procedure is slow for the inertia in that sector is legendary. Education reforms are part of CSL. Streamlinning the public transport system both railways and buses is again part of CSL. Every cleaning up, reform, reorganizing, closing down, innovating and COPE\u2019s investigations are implementing the CSL.<\/p>\n

Aragalaya<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The NPP government is the mother of CSL. Aragalaya is the mother of the NPP government. And the mother of the Aragalaya<\/a><\/em><\/span> is the people. Spontaneously without a leader, without a party, without a union they came together in such great numbers that the contemporary evil powers literally fled for life looking for holes to hide. And that is the first and most important value that emerged at Gotagogama, Nirpakshika. It means one does not belong to any political party nor owe allegiance to any so-called leader. It is this gathering of the people that I called along ago \u201cThe Grand Alliance of Good People\u201d. The Nirpakshika person is the model of a true citizen who takes full responsibility for what he says and does, making decisions on his own without any influence. The NPP government must keep in mind that the vast majority of those who supported the NPP are such Nirpakshika people. They are neither JVP nor NPP nor do they belong to any other party; they are sovereignly independent. They do not forgive wrong doers and law breakers even if they are JVP or NPP.<\/p>\n

A humble request<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear AKD and the NPP, implement your manifesto. Keep your hands clean. There are allegations against Vasantha and Manuwarna. Do not allow the allegations to fester. Investigate and let the law do its job. If at all let it be more severe with them than with others. The latest news is that the husband of a PS Malima member is caught with drugs and to make it worse he is the head master of a primary school! The full weight of the law of the country must be applied to these people after a thorough investigation and the judicial process. Let the NPP turn the searchlight of finding the truth on themselves and seek out the weeds and destroy them fast, before the weeds destroy all the good achieved by the NPP so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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