Like any other election in Sri Lanka, the presidential election is also getting uglier by the day.
However, I am getting confused trying to keep track of the trends and swings, not because it’s getting uglier but because of some of the outlandish claims made by the ruling party.
The first one is that if the main opponent comes to power, he will allow the defeated LTTE to rise up again, when everyone in Sri Lanka knows that the President barely made it to the winning line last time, only thanks to the LTTE’s refusal to allow Tamils to cast their votes freely.
Rumours flew that the LTTE had acted in that manner to ensure his victory, and to add to that suspicion, a photograph appeared in the media not long ago, showing the grooming scion meeting with a well-known LTTE Diaspora member in one of the western countries that he and his cronies publicly despise.
Another rumour now permeating is the way very large sums of money recovered from one of the notorious LTTE leaders now in captivity are being used during the election campaigns.
If western capitalist societies are as decadent as they have publicly claimed, why do many people, including his own clan, seek permanent residency or send their children to study in those countries?
The other claim is that the Sri Lankan economy is presently doing far better than any of the western capitalist economies. If our economy is far sounder than the western economies, then why did we go begging to the IMF for a massive loan? Has anyone compared the GDP per capita income of those countries with ours?
I personally know how many of my countrymen are being stopped daily trying to board a flight with forged travel documents from this part of the world to one of the so-called decadent countries, which are economically performing much lower than us presently, according to their claims.
If their comparisons are true and correct, then the trend should have been the other way around, where we should see many westerners clamouring to come to Sri Lanka to seek refuge, but unfortunately, we are yet to witness something of that nature.
As the saying goes, they may be able to fool some people all the time, but not all the time.
The Sri Lankan people are much wiser than they think and are yearning now for a change, and that too, not just a change for the sake of change but a complete overhauling of the existing political dynastic system where a few think that the key to public office is one of their birthrights.
I would see many westerners clamouring to come to Sri Lanka to seek refuge, but unfortunately, we are yet to witness something of that nature.
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