Is a general election the panacea to Lanka’s woe?

The Supreme Court decisions drove the stake into the heart of Rajapaksa plans to precipitate a general election long before its time. Now to find their noses rubbed in the dust by judicial decree which has put a full stop to their ambitious plans known only to them, contained in their secret agenda.

Shortly after the Supreme Court verdict had driven a stake into the heart of Rajapaksa plans to usurp power through unconstitutional means and finding their noses rubbed by judicial decree which put a full stop to their dreams to precipitate an election long before its time and achieve the promise of success to the items in their secret agenda, the Rajapaksa heir apparent Namal tells the media that this must be the only country in the was a general public clamour for general elections in October, even a whisper in the wind that elections were the panacea to the ills that Lanka faced and that a Rajapaksa third coming was the placebo that would turn out to be the miracle cure of our time. Or was I merely a way to stop the new founded highway courts from delivering their judgements expresso?

For what would the nation have gained by a change of regime before the present corpus had expired? Would the nation have taken a quantum leap to prosperity, would the rupee have appreciated against the dollar, would the international community have stormed Lanka’s shores in droves pledging to give even more aid to make Lanka the miracle of Asia as Rajapaksa promised during the sun- shine years of his tenure in office, would they have been able to settle the yearly international interest commitment? Gain international acceptance amongst the league of nations and given a seat at is table with the Rajapaksa regime’s infamous track record on human rights?

Even China, now that she has what she coveted and Lanka lays snared in her spider debt web, may not be that eager to lend the helping hand especially when he finds her own hand grasped in a tight all American squeeze, having to tackle as she does her own trade plight now with Trump in the Oval Office? The world has changed during the last three years since the Rajapaksas walked the corridors of power. It’s time to wise up to changing times.