Don’t keep deceiving the people by trying to blame only Ranil and others for ‘bad’ Cabinet decisions

After the happenings of October 26, many including President Sirisena keep saying that Ranil Wickremesinghe and the ministers who were members of his party were the ones who are responsible for destructive Cabinet decisions. Two such important decisions being criticised on a daily basis are the leasing out of the Magampura Mahinda Rajapaksa Port and postponing of the PC elections. Both these subjects were handled by two Ministers of Sirisena’s party who are still with Sirisena.

The President now talks like he was alone in the Cabinet – is he trying to hide the fact that he had about 15 Cabinet Ministers from his party who are still going behind him criticising the past Cabinet decisions?

President Sirisena made a wrong calculation and was deceived by the campaign carried out by the SLPP. He thought the SLPP has a large following as they managed to organise several processions and rallies bringing in thousands of people. Many failed to realise that Mahinda Rajapaksa got 5.8 million votes, thus having a meeting with a huge crowd was not a wonder.

They also failed to understand that whatever the faults Yahapalanaya had, that this would not make 6.2 million voters turn to the Rajapaksas although it could have been to some other party. President Sirisena too must have felt that joining with the Rajapaksas would make his second term dream into reality.