A wake-up call for TNA leadership!

The Sri Lankan lawmakers have once again last week acted unethically inside the parliament as many times in the past three years and these episodes confirms once again the need to weed out the corrupt lawmakers to enable the parliament to function properly; as said many times in Northern Breeze, it is up to the people to grab the opportunity and vote in only those politicians who realize the pulse of the people; to reform their political parties as majority of the present countrywide law makers are corrupt and warm the parliamentary seats for power and perks.the Unity Government was never united from the start, with dominant UNP underestimating capabilities of its political opponent, the SLFP with higher share of average law makers, who retaliated back to make life difficult for coexistence to finally ruin it.thus the Unity Government failed to accomplish what they were elected for, be it to curb the corruption prevailing in the country; resolve the ethnic problem to bring about permanent peace to the people and more so those affected by the crude civil war; last but not least to bring necessary reforms to get the country on track for economic recovery. Whereas UNP as the Grand Old Party should have assumed that their opponents, SLFP was smarter and that would have kept them on their toes, but they were sloppy and made many wrong moves in the three years and were unseated by the President. It was this act of the President that caused the current instability in parliament and the clowning acts by some members of the new government were shocking to say the least; the parliament concluded its sessions with the Speaker putting to test the no confidence motion against the new Prime Minister under most unusual circumstances.

The TNA having expressed its willingness for a political solution within a united country, should grow out of their negative mindset claim of being the sole representatives of the Tamils. Sadly, it was expected that TNA would vote for the no confidence motion, but it failed to guide the opposition to follow the parliamentary procedures on the matter, instead moved with the tide. Whereas the Leader of the TNA, who as a veteran lawmaker and the Leader of Opposition should have objected to the proceedings; instead he took upon himself to announce that the no confidence motion was passed in the legislature against the new government; was a sad day for parliament democracy.

The Leader of the TNA, who as a veteran lawmaker and the Leader of Opposition should have objected to the proceedings