It was N.M. Colvin who called J.R . Jayawardene ‘Naki Naria’ or Old Fox. Later even the foreign media used that name to call JR. Ranil JR. nephew often tries to show that he is a cunning fox like his uncle. Sri Lanka Latest News
When relating this fox story, I remember the story of ‘Fox and piece of cheese’ that I heard when I was a child. There is also a crow in that story. The story tells how the fox tricked the crow to take the piece of cheese from the crow.
During the ‘aragalaya’, the strugglers called Basil the crow. Ranil, the sly fox, tried for two years from the day when Basil got together and made Ranil the president to take the cheese from Basil’s mouth. Ranil was waiting to buy that piece of cheese until the date of the presidential election was fixed. But like the crow in the story of the fox and the cheese, Ranil never gives up the cheese no matter what song he is asked to sing.
‘Why don’t the Rajapakse family including Basil give candidacy to Ranil?’
In all recent opinion polls, Pototuva is ahead of the UNP. Pohottuwa is on top of the UNP at a time when Pohottuwa has not named its candidate. If you want to raise the bud from there, they may be counting on the leader not being overthrown. They think that to raise the pot, a candidate from the pot should be presented in the presidential election.
The best example is the 2020 general election. The UNP was swept away in the 2020 general elections because of the sins committed by Maithri and Ranil separately or together. Basil fears that if Ranil is defeated in the presidential election, Pohottuwa will suffer the same fate as UNP in 2020. When Maithree left in 2019, he had completed UNP together with Ranil. Ranil is going to lose after ending the partnership with the Rajapaksa.
The UNP has understood that they will separate from Maithri and go to the opposition without committing the sins of Maithri. Even though the leaders told Ranil, the prime ministership was too big for Ranil.
If the Rajapaksas had separated from Ranil earlier, this disaster would not have happened. The Rajapaksas did not separate from Ranil because they were afraid that Ranil would break the party and to take advantage of Ranil’s position as president.
‘But now Ranil has broken the party…?’
Ranil has broken few Pohottuve MPs . The MPs of Pohottuwa joining Ranil, UNP MPs joining Sajith is not one but two. When Sajith and UNP MPs leave Ranil, they are more popular than Ranil. Ranil has led the UNP for nearly 30 years after losing one vote after another and winning two votes. That is the general election of 2001 and the general election of 2015. Both these votes were won by Sajith and UNP Because of MPs. When they left Ranil, he could not win a single seat.
Mahinda is not like that. In 2010 and 2020, MPs won first as United People’s Freedom Alliance and secondly as Pohottuwa because of Mahinda’s popularity and image. Maithripala Sirisena, Wimal Weerawansa and others were making a name for themselves among those MPs. All the others are candidates who asked for votes wearing Mahinda’s picture. UNP When the candidates asked for votes, they did not put Ranil’s picture on the poster because of the fear of losing because of Ranil.
The best example is the 2015 General Election. In the 2015 general election, S.B. Dissanayake and several others took over as ministers from the Maithri-Ranil government and contested elections by holding Maithripala’s picture. S.B. and those people were defeated in the election. Maithrie took them in from the national list. After that, SB said that it is not possible to win votes until Ranil is in the prime minister’s ship. Later, Mahinda himself decided that he could not win votes even with Maithri.
‘Will the same thing happen to this set that goes with Ranil…?’
Everyone in this set who goes with Ranil has either a ministry. Or there is a deputy minister or a state minister. Or a brother or sister, daughter or son has a job in a foreign embassy. They think that if Ranil wins, they will be able to keep the positions that have been held by this family of MPs and Ministers of State for one more year.
For example, Dinesh is going to keep the prime minister ship for at least another month. Mrs. Bandaranaike told Dinesh’s father that he stabbed her in the back and joined the UNP.
Dinesh’s father Philip’s politics ended there. Dinesh followed the same path as his father and pointed the trigger at U.N.P. Joined the leader.
‘How can Ranil win…?’
If Ranil wins, the MPs of Samagi Jana Balavega will not work for Ranil and stick to Ranil. They did not join Ranil because he could not win votes, not because of love. Especially the minority parties of Samagi Jana Balawega are afraid to join Ranil and Ranil will lose his position in the next election.
‘Then how can the MPs who go to Ranil in Pohottuwa think that Ranil will win…?’
Nimal Siripala may be going to Ranil as if he doesn’t know the name of the set. Because Sajith does not even take them to the border. Susil Premajayan also looked at Sajith, but Sajith looked away because they are so out of touch with the public.
This President and Cabinet of Ministers consist of a president elected from the national list without any public opinion and a cabinet of ministers elected from the national list. The President does not even have 25,000 votes. Strong ministers are made by national list MPs who can’t even find family votes. Anura Kumara has always called them the cocoon of the Gota-Mahinda wave.
Mahinda is worth the money. In the 2020 general election, the MPs who think that Ranil, who did not get even 25,000 votes, is as popular as Mahinda, who got more than 5 lakh votes, should do business, not politics. Ranil drew the presidential election map thinking that Mahinda would be right.
Like the story of the fox and the piece of Cheese, the fox and the grapevine are also very popular. These days, when Ranil and Ranil’s pohottuva brigade say that it is a good thing that the Rajapaksa’s are not there, it reminds me of the story of the fox saying that the grapes are bitter.
