3P or Priests, Politicians and Police
I will deal with other 3Ps first.
1. Parippu or dhal
2. Pol or coconut sambol
3. Pappadum
If one goes to a University Canteen all three are expensive.
But they are also infested by three other gulags.
1. Guys in saffron cloths or priests.
2. Politics and politicians.
3. Police with battens.
I think if we are to avoid anarchy in future we need several prerequisites.
RW and MR should not be reelected to the next parliament.
They will
hide behind the parliamentary privileges and cannot be brought to
justice.
List MPs not elected and not responsible for a particular electorate should be deprived of parliamentary privileges.
Once one becomes a President for more than 3 months he / she should not be allowed to be a member of the parliament for ever.
Then, we can get rid of Maru Sira and Maraya, Chandriaka and Ranil from any form of politics (both party or Parliamentary).
JVP can appoint a guy or girl for this post temporarily and abolish the post of president, in toto.
That was their promise.
It is a theme, sure to gain popularity, as a counter to JRJ referendum.
If they campaign for economic recovery they are bound to fail in less than two years.
They should cultivate relationship with Russia and President Putin.
He has promised free food for the needy.
Once we feed our guys and girls to health, it is mandatory that they
should work at least 8 hours (in schools, offices and public utilities)
a day.
They have 16 hours left for themselves including traveling to work.
They can even run their private tutories, including political tutories.
Ceylon is a country one can travel from one end to the other end by public transport in less than 24 hours.
By air only 45 minutes.
8 hour labour is the UNO or International Labour Regulation minimum
requirement.
Currently, if one works extra hours for any reason one is entitled for bonus pay.
The pertinent argument is the basic salary is not enough to sustain.
No one should be allowed to do extra hours with pay or without pay.
What happens in Ceylon is
they do gossip for 8 hours (free pay) till 3PM and do the normal work
after 4PM.
Three to four is sleeping time at desk.
Mind you, I worked in public service as an administrator.
No cellphones or work from home or video conferences.
They are good for developed countries and not for Ceylon.
The above ploy is a sure way to get at least 80 seats plus the bonus seats.
Otherwise they will get only 60 or less.
Having abolished list MPs and the post of Presidency we should limit the MPs to 99.
The 100th member should be the secretary of the parliament who should be selected by a majority vote of the MPs.
He should serve only two terms.
This officer should give continuity to the establishment during elections and in between elections.
The Cabinet that stay in between elections, do all the illegal transactions and get away scot free.
MPs should hold only 3 terms and no pension for any MP.
New Zealand has 100 seats.
I prefer less than 100.
I think 75MPs are enough for Ceylon.
Only 7 or 8 Cabinet of Ministries.
25 Ministers is too much and no deputy minsters (I call them monsters) but Permanent Secretaries with
high class civil service experience of at least 20 years (in service in
Ceylon and service abroad is discounted).
The Permanent Secretaries should be like ambassadors and only 2 terms of service for them.
Election in every three years as in management practice.
Three consecutive MP posts should last only 9 years.
If they cannot perform in 9 years why extend their term of office to Eternity?
Aren't they white elephants?
I am pretty sure even NPP/JVP cannot bring these reforms.
All these are hypothetical wishes and I wish not to be born again in Ceylon to verify these, in my next birth.
That is of course, if I get a chance to be reborn again as a typical human with hopes not fulfilled in this human life.
I think I have no hope of born again as a human but perhaps as an alien being of reptilian base.
Reason, I fear all snakes.
By the way, I do not hold a brief to JVP and I am opposed to most of
their impractical policies.
I certainly won't vote for them, if I remain in Ceylon.
This antipathy for JVP was not a new phenomenon.
I was fourth in their death list in Digana, in Kandy, 1989.
Even in their peak campaign, I openly opposed them unlike the guys who have become vocal opponents once 139 odd guys were killed in Menikdiwela in Kandy.
JVP asked all of us to join their parade against Senior Premadasa in Digana.
I remained in the village with my staff and enjoyed V.S.O.A, instead.
Of
course my residence was vacated (house No 1) and we moved to a secret
location (vacant house) for our feast.
Sinnappan our supply officer (he had adequate supply of foreign liquor) was all ready to join the protest parade and I stopped him and said, if we are to die we should give a fight and die in our safe house.
All agreed.
Had we joined the parade we would have been among the 139.
Senior Premadasa ordered the police to open fire and that is why I still hate him and never voted in his favour.
In fact, I abstained from voting for nearly 40 years.
Only innocent village people died in this incident and JVP guys eloped well before police goons arrived.
Then in 1971, in the Peradeniya Campus, the JVP hide the explosives
on the ceiling of our room 11.
Then, they tipped the army guys to our room
for search.
Army came in to round up the JVP guys and remove the explosive devices.
The lieutenant was one of our colleague guys and by stroke of luck I escaped detention.
He asked the names of JVP guys and I said, none in our hall of residence, having known them by names.
One of those guys became a lifetime friend of mine and I helped him to complete the course of studies, in his field.
None from our Hall of Residence was taken into detention.
In our first year, Army was stationed in the gymnasium in preparation for the Independence day celebration in Kandy.
If I remember right, speaker of the house was bucketed, in front of Wijewardena Hall. I do not remember why he visited the University.
May be to organize the Graduation Ceremony or the Independent Day Ceremony.
We did not have a graduation ceremony for nearly 2 decades. Reason given by the Minister Badudeen Mahmood was the government did not have money to buy the special paper necessary to print the degree certificates. I do not rember when I finally got the certificate, may be 30 years later when I was working in New Zealand.
I boycotted all the Convocations even though, I was involved in initial preparation of the event.
I have never worn the garb but preferred English 3 piece suit for ceremonies.
I only have warn the cloak only once in my life when we had farewell photograph to Professor Ama Mia (JICA) with the Vice Chancellor attending.
He arrived one hour late, to the embarrassment of all who participated.
He was a stooge of Chandrika and no wonder he followed Chandrika's tradition of coming late.
She was very late to the opening ceremony of the Dental School which was a gift from JICA.
I was to usher her to the auditorium and her private secretary kept me informed of her movements every 15 minutes but I did not tell anybody of my regular communications.
I was the Only Cool Guy but others were fully tensed including the undergraduates.
Coming back to the Speaker of the House!
He said, "I am the Speaker of the House".
"Do not con, Uncle" was the reply from the guy who bucketed him.
On an earlier occasion, Dudley Senanayake was not allowed to enter the (stopped at the Galaha Junction) the University for a ceremony come a political address.
This day, I had gone home and I was stopped entering the University premises by an Army Officer.
He said; "I am Army Officer ************"**. STOP"
I just waited in front of Botanical Gardens.
It peted out without an incident and the Army withdrew and a brief ceremony held.
I did not attend.
Dudley was not a guy who would retaliate.
Placing Army in the Gymnasium was designed to teach our undergraduates a lesson by I.M.R.A Iriyagolla.
We (I did not) hooted the Army from 8AM to 1PM.
Rumours spread that they were preparing to assault us after the Independence Parade.
The university was closed.
I shaved my beard and kept my suitcase in a nearby house and escaped just before the army dinner time.
Of course Army, vandalized two of the Halls of Residences.
Those who left their belongings inside were vandalized (books and clothes).
When I reached Kandy, the army guys in civilian cloths were assaulting young guys who pretended to be University Students.
One guy asked me are you from the university.
I asked what is university? and saved myself of a thundering clout on my ear.
Luckily my elder brother was in the bus queue and I boarded the bus before him and sat on a middle seat.
Army did a full search of the bus and my elder brother saved any
embarrassment to me.
I looked very young then and nobody would have
(with a clean shave) passed me as an undergraduate.
I never trusted police nor army all my life.
I used to give a real workout for police on duty when I was the District Medical Officer.
That was the only clinical post I held in Government Service.
