Ousting Sirimavo

Ousting Sirimavo

I was practical man was instrumental in getting rid of Sirima, N.M. and Peter Keinaman out of politics. It started when I was an Intern and it matured within 6 years to oust Sirima.

 

Ist Episode

Worked to Rule Campaign 

I was invincible in my work place and I did not behave like a rotten egg, generally speaking, which Labour Union guys are. 

I get activated after 9 P.M. when everybody is retiring to bed.

Work to rule campaign was initiated through messages through our telephone system.

 

Plot is hatched over night, without breaking the law of the country and patients were very well looked after by a skeleton staff.

This is not agonist the poor patients but the rotten government.

 

2nd Episode in UK

When I entered UK, 60% of the Doctors were from overseas. The majority were from Ceylon. We did not have a Union and I closely followed the Labour Union activity in Yorkshire and formed a primitive "Overseas Doctors Association" and got our U.M.T raised within six months.

Then there was a long drawn out action to get 1 in 3 rota.

I never got a 1 in 3 rota for 8 years and by that time I made a firm decision to return home due to many reasons.

British doctors were lazy and never did one in two rota at out time.

 

3nd Episode

Ousting Mahinda Rajapaksa

Plan was well executed and guys like Dulles Alahapperuma did not know from where we operated.

We even had a skeleton International Staff.

That is when he forgot the country and look after only the family and family members.

I do not mind party members left riding up beating the family.

Do not allow the son to rise up.

Let him remain at 10%.

He is a liability worse than Sajith. 

Already an Indian stooge. 

 

4th Episode

In New Zealand

I was getting the salary for three and that actually was very reason for my downfall. 

They could not sack me but reorganized the structure. I stuck to my contract but the one who offered me the job lost his post without compensation.

New Zealand doctors were the laziest and under Labour Law they never worked beyond 40-44 hours but I did over 82 (almost double) on one week.

I threatened to take legal action unless they keep the contract, I signed with them. 

Only think they could do was not to renew the contract.

Two weeks later I was back in Ceylon and of course, I did not want my wife to lose her job in Ceylon. 

She had taken only two years unpaid leave and she returned 8 weeks earlier in good time. If one loses a job in Ceylon it is very difficult to regain or recover.

 

That is the reality.

5. JRJ

I was lucky to be out of this country, for decade when he was in power.

I signed his last blood report and said I am signing a dead man's report and left Navaloka and when I reached Ragama by train, I saw the white flags coming up. I did not pay a visit to him and his final few days were supposed to be pathetic.

I was in Ceylon on holiday when his "Kalagedi Selllama" was on display.

Ever since, I hate this mechanism called referendum.

The distortion and ruin he brought to our simple one past the post system cannot be redeemed.

One crime of my life was voting for him once before leaving Ceylon. 

Of course I was instrumental in getting Sirimavo out.

It was not a "For Vote" but a " Protest vote".

I voluntarily removed my name from the "Voter Register" for over 20 years and renewed it only to get the passport to leave Ceylon for good.

The above piece is to show I had an active service in Ceylon and Abroad.