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<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nTwo nation theory<\/strong><\/span>
\nWigneswaran suddenly being\u00a0 awoken to \u2018a catch notion\u2019 of \u2018two nation\u2019 theory, and according to some political commentators, is an uncritical and aped transportation of\u00a0 a concept that could probably be applicable to the calcified Israel-Palestine conflict\u00a0 for which there is seemingly no solution with the new mandate secured by Benjamin Netanyahu. People might wish to find out which Western ally is advising Chief Minister. Those Western allies never advised the factions of the 30-year-old Northern Ireland conflict between Protestants and Catholics \u2018a two-nation theory\u2019. The\u00a0 West did not see as a solution to the South Africa\u2019s years of tormenting institutionalized apartheid, \u2018a black nation\u2019 and \u2018a white nation\u2019 theory. Each notion especially of political nature has its own background, history and other factors that form itself. However, such notions are hard to be realized as there is no size fit for all. The sovereign state of Sri Lanka cannot afford to entertain \u2018Wignes-theorizations\u2019 that could undermine much gains of this island-nation having undergone nearly 500 years of colonialism.<\/span>
\nMinoritarian voices<\/strong><\/span>
\nIt must be reckoned that Wigneswaran does not fully represent all minority voices of Sri Lanka. It is in this context Chief Minister\u2019s \u2018stubborn proposition\u2019 of\u00a0 two nation theory becomes pointless and baseless in terms\u00a0 of the mandate he and other Tamil parties have received. The Muslim parties must be consulted with the quivering two nation theory. Where does Muslim voice fit in the Wignes-proposal? What about the different Tamil voices in the Eastern Province, Mannar, Wanni and in the Up-country regions. Would they comply with the Chief Minister\u2019s agenda?\u00a0 It is inappropriate that a minority could decide the plight of a state-of-the-art of governance, neither the majority could do it at its own whim and fancy. Hence,\u00a0 Wigneswaran even though a judicial don is deeply flawed in terms of his democratic considerations and aptitudes as there are serious deficits within his political imagination. <\/span>
\nWickremsinghe\u2019s position is complicated, much worse than the president with the national government agenda, and the shift of alliances and allegiances with Samaraweeran foreign policy.\u00a0 President Sirisena is a cleanly- mandated leader whereas Wickremesinghe is not. He even today can be ousted by a vote of no confidence, but the political deals he maneuvered have become his lucrative luck combined with his own political craft which enhanced his survival in Diyawanna politics. For him, taming the Chief\u00a0 Minister may not be as easy as Karuna Amman for all practical purposes, but his skills are the best in the country for such a task. However, the people who defeated a popular and a powerful president will use same franchise to decide a political future of many now in power because the most powerful in a democracy \u2013 the people. <\/span>
\nMinority in a country must be respected, they must be treated with equal dignity. There is no nation or state without its minorities, de facto they are a strength of a democracy.\u00a0 They are a political touchstone to manage the power mongering politicians, like it happened in the last presidential election. However, minority alone cannot decide the same course of history of a nation. Territories cannot be divided, separated simply because there are majority-minority issues of concern. Partition of India on the basis of religion, recent partition of Sudan on the basis of certain tribal, religious and ethnic grounds, Kosovo certainly on religious and ethnic grounds and Timor-Leste arguably are not the success stories of regional power sharing models. \u2018Wignes-two nation theory\u2019 is a seriously deviant thinking towards a Sri Lankan solution for the majority-minority political impasse. There are ethnographers, historians, demographers through their study, analysis and academic predictions who in fact think that it is the Sinhalese who are a minority in the context of South Asia and in terms of global demographic architecture and not necessarily the Tamil ethnics, ratios are staggering. This is a socio-anthropological matter and not necessarily an ethnic issue.<\/span>
\n\u2018Wignes theory\u2019 might be beneficial for the US-India led solution just like in the manner of the UN pressurized creation of Kosova and South Sudan. Chief Minister can have an opinion, he even could influence the political will some minority groups in Sri Lanka, but what about the national consensus for his \u2018two nation theory\u2019. He must know that he lives in South Asia, and not in the Western World of politics of double standards and hypocrisy.<\/span>
\nNational Government<\/strong><\/span>
\nNational Government is a political device in order to govern a crisis situation in a State or a region and in recent history it has been perhaps formed like a broad based coalition or war councils. World War II is a good example in terms of what the allied forces attempted and the massive reconstruction of particularly the post World War II Germany. <\/span>
\nThe hurriedly argued \u2018national government\u2019 without a template neither from the TNA nor JVP is not a healthy proposition in view of a general election. The UNP and SLFP alone are not a national government; it\u2019s just a two party alliance-governance like in the UK. (Cameron-Clegg, they don\u2019t call it a national government). The TNA\u2019s and JVP\u2019s opting out of any cabinet portfolio is a sign of trust deficit they harbor politically. The national government that is due to be campaigned cannot be \u2018his master\u2019s voice\u2019 or remote-controlled by US-India solution to the local issues. The so-called national government in a vibrant democracy is a historical sign of a weak state that is not able to face opposition and perhaps extra parliamentary pressure groups and civil society bodies which are mature and politically astute in Sri Lanka. The CBK-SLFP-Sirisena and its party protocols are all flouted by the second and the third tier SLFPers across the country with the Nugegoda, Kandy and Ratnapura encounters. Majority-minority issues are in the middle of these political moves. The people are no longer on lookers, but they are keenly watchful.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
– See more at: http:\/\/www.nation.lk\/edition\/insight\/item\/39851-majority-minority-wedlock-or-deadlock?.html#sthash.SBLbczoS.dpuf<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By\u00a0 Dr. Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Saturday, 11 April 2015 00:00 \u00a0 Chief Minister, Wigneswaran did a political stunt just before the arrival of the Indian premier with a \u2018two nation\u2019 theory. The interim (\u2018un-mandated\u2019 as some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-shanthikumar-hettiarachchi","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hettiviththi.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hettiviththi.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hettiviththi.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hettiviththi.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hettiviththi.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hettiviththi.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hettiviththi.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hettiviththi.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hettiviththi.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}