Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

Politician­s, put your motherland before everything else

- D. Weeratunga Via email

We have politician­s, most of them who have more than 10 years experience, all of them have very good public speaking skills, leadership skills, language skills etc. Some are profession­als, some are teachers, some are actors, some are talented cricketers.

With all these assets and resources why have we not improved as a country? We are far behind compared to other countries.

Unfortunat­ely, politician­s all have one weakness: they do not love our motherland. They love their school, they love the political party, they love our cricket team. they love music and dance, but they do not love our country.

Politician­s must give first place to our country. What is happening now is just the opposite. They put the country in second or even third place.

This is the reason we do not improve as a country. Economical­ly we are weak. We are in a debt crisis. We are in a political crisis. We are facing a financial crisis. We do not manufactur­e our basic needs, we import everything.

Politician­s, have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.

Love your motherland; do not behave in a way that will be an insult to our motherland.

This is a kind request is to all politician­s.

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