Sirisena’s good character certificate to MPs

President Sirisena issued a good character certificate to the UPFA members who had raised hell last Friday but who maintained their cool and calm during the brief ten minute Parliamentary session this Monday when the Deputy Speaker adjourned sittings and declared Parliament would meet on Friday.

He tweeted Trump style: ‘“I thank all the Party Leaders and Parliamentarians for adopting a peaceful and consensual course of action at the Parliament today, following my meeting with the Party Leaders last evening.”

Good. Awesome. Good behaviour must be praised at all times. What a pity Sirisena failed to condemn the atrocious behaviour of his own UPFA MPs in parliament last Friday which witnessed a hooligan mob of UPFA members preventing the Speaker from occupying his rightful seat, of the newly appointed Minister of Christian Affairs Johnston, a Catholic, throwing the Holy Bible in the direction of the Speaker and was caught on camera sabotaging electronic devices belonging to the public, some throwing chilli powder mixed with water at the police and at the opposition MPs, Johnston again in chair breaking and chair throwing, another slapping the police and obstructing them in the course of their duties, some dragging the Speaker’s chair away. And Thursday saw, amidst great mayhem, UPFA MP Ranaweera, in a bid to convey that the Speaker had suffered a bout of incontinence in the melee, acting as lavatory coolie and pouring water on the Speaker’s chair to clean up the mess.

Praising the Good is good but condemning the Bad and the Ugly is vital. And should be on the Order Paper every day.

Power that would have been on his platter and would have been his for the taking, had he bided his time and watched with patience the Maithri-Ranil coalition crumble and fall further like a crusty hopper into flaky crumbs, now seems to have given him the cold shoulder and fled to pristine ozone zones where it hovers poised undecided upon whose deserving head to bestow the Lankan crown