*Opposition planning for Iranian-style chaos after election*
/Posted on January 23rd, 2010 /
/H. L. D. Mahindapala/
What is already known is that President Mahinda Rajapaksa will win
on January 26. The question then is: what will the opposition do on
January 27? Informed sources predict that they will come out crying
foul on January 27 and ask for re-count or another election with the
JVP-led mobs taking to the streets, hoping to create chaos.
Reason: The NGOs, JVP, UNP and some sections of the local media have
already launched a massive campaign to invalidate the election on
the lines of the Iranian election of 2009 which declared the
incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner. Another ominous
pointer is that the Daily Mirror has already come out saying that it
is legitimate to invalidate the election on grounds of violence.
In Iran pre-election polls predicted accurately that President
Ahmadinejad would win. But the opposition, manipulated by foreign
agents, took to the streets protesting that the election was rigged.
But this lie was exposed by The Washington Post. Under the heading,
The Iranian People Speak, written by Ken Balley and Patrick Doherty,
The Post confirmed that the polls predicted a victory for
Ahmadinejad. It reported (Monday June 15, 2009): “Many experts are
claiming that the margin of victory of incumbent President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad was the result of fraud or manipulation, but our
nationwide public opinion survey of Iranians three weeks before the
vote showed Ahmadinejad leading by a more than 2 to 1 margin —
greater than his actual apparent margin of victory in Friday’s
election.”
The opposition, together with the NGOs, is alarmed by the two
opinion polls which have predicted a victory for the Mahinda
Rajapakse regime. The two polls conducted by Viplav Communications
(Pvt.) Ltd., and Kelaniya University predicted a clear victory for
Mahinda Rajapakse. Faced with this inevitability the only response
available to the defeated opposition is to deny the legitimacy of
the elections with accusations of rigging and violence.
The usual suspects in the NGO mafia are preparing the climate to
mount Iranian-style chaos after the elections. “Paki” Saravanmuttu,
Sunila Abeysekera, whose father Charles Abeysekera founded a
lucrative NGO after he left the public service under a cloud of
malpractices, and the former JVPer now turned into a bleeding heart
human rights activist, Basil Fernando – all anti-Sri Lankan agents
of foreign-funded NGOs – have ganged up to issue statements
questioning the validity of the forthcoming election.
They all have one common agenda: regime change. They have no qualms
about supporting “Roti” Fonseka *, the retired General, who was
condemned by them as a prime violator of human rights. “Paki” has
been agitating globally for regime change. His way of singing for
his supper has been to denigrate the Sri Lankan Army and the Sri
Lankan government. Now he is maintaining a grim silence about the
General whom he ridiculed and attacked when the Army was on the way
to decimate the Tamil Tigers.
Having failed to stop the war and having failed to mobilize the
foreign forces to paralyze or crush the elected government of the
day “Paki” and his gang are maneuvering to invalidate the election
results. “Paki” who normally is the first to conduct opinion polls
on previous elections has been very backward in coming forward this
time with a poll. Why? Obviously, the poll results predict doom and
gloom for “Roti” Fonseka – the last chance for NGOs and
Wickremesinghe. Besides, “Paki” has denied having conducted a poll.
This is most intriguing. Why hasn’t “Paki” conducted a poll this
time?. Isn’t this the most critical election for the “Paki” who now
appears regularly with Wicky on thinly disguised political platforms?
Whether he has conducted a poll or not “Paki” like Wicky has been in
the camp of born losers. The only option available to the losers is
to prepare the ground for Iranian-style agitation after January 26.
Creating chaos after the election will be the last tactic available
to the Wickey-Paki-Haki-Mangy-SomaHansa mob – all of whom are
desperate now, knowing that victory has slipped away once again.
Their campaign has run out of steam mid way and the counter-attack
from the Mahinda camp has begun to bite. Besides, the solid bloc of
votes behind Mahinda Rajapakse in the Provincial Council elections
of 2009 remains intact, despite the confusing crossovers from both
sides.
The propaganda mills of the opposition have succeeded in creating
illusions among the chattering class in Colombo about their victory
but the interior, where the solid blocs of votes are, is unperturbed
by the Twittering and the SMSing elite. This is similar to buzz that
the Lalith-Gamini whipped up against President Premadasa. At the
height of the impeachment crisis Colombo was agog with the political
demise of Premadasa. But it was Lalith-Gamini-NGO-Western bloc that
bit the dust.
Similarly, the excitement felt by the
Wickey-Paki-Haki-Mangy-SomaHansa mob is not backed by opinion polls.
If the opposition had a favourable opinion poll they would have hit
back by now. But their grim silence indicates that they have lost
the battle.
Their only hope is to agitate after the election is over. This will
be a move to destabilize the nation for foreign interventionists to
mess around with Sri Lankan politics after the elections. The public
should be aware of this and not play into the hands of a bunch of
blithering buffoons who never had a viable formula either for war or
peace.
The future certainly is not in the hands of the discredited
opposition. That is one of the most positive silver linings in the
horizon right now.
* “Roti” Fonseka: he forcibly thrust a roti down the throat of his
cook because it was misshapen.
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