THE MUSLIMS FINALLY MADE A DECISIVE MOVE TO JOIN THE PADA YATRA FROM KEGALLE, MAWANELLA AND THIHARIYA.
The Muslims finally
made a decisive move to joint the Pada Yatra from Kegalle, Mawanella and
Thihariya. Many Muslims were seen in the march flowing into Colombo. This is
how leading newspapers reported on this new political phenomenon. The Island
Newspapers today (02.08.2016) reported this as: Quote. …..
Kandy
District MP Mahinda Aluthgamage said that the Muslim community of
Thihariya on Sunday threw their weight behind the Pada Yathra. Key
Pada Yathra organizer said that the Muslim community had publicly regretted
voting for Maithripala Sirisena at January 2015 presidential polls. Former
Sports Minister said that the Pada Yathra had proved that former President and
Kurunegala District MP Mahinda Rajapaksa still earned the respect and love of
genuine SLFPers. The real SLFP responded spontaneously to the former
President’s appeal to members to join the five-day campaign, MP Aluthgamage
said. Unquote.
During the Presidential Elections and general elections of 2010,
20% of the total Muslim votes were polled in favour of President Mahinda
Rajapaksa and the UPFA. In the 2005 presidential elections, the Muslims played
a major role in the victory of Mahinda Rajapaksa, it was reported.
The late T.B. Jaya said that “the Muslims should not put all their eggs in one basket”. What did
this mean? It meant that the Muslims should be represented in both the National
Sinhala political parties. Today, for some reason, there is only one Muslim
elected representation in the SLFP/ “Mathri pela”, Hon. Fowzi and NONE in the
“Ekkabadde Vipaksaya” (the Mahinda Rajapaksa group) a political force of nearly
51 SLFP/UPFA “elected” parliamentarians. Therefore
the Muslims do not have a political voice. It is true that we have allowed the
affairs of our community to be taken control of unscrupulous, dishonest,
deceptive, self-motivated, selfish, corrupt and manipulating Muslim
politicians, Muslim political party leaders, Ulema and Media personnel, that
has led our community to be considered as a 2nd., class community in
Sri Lanka. In politics, we are considered as the “community of political
naanaas who turn the way their Fez Cap turns” to support any political party
that comes to power for the personal gains of the political leaders of the
Muslim parties. The Muslim politicians
have hoodwinked and betrayed the Muslim Community wholesale. In the aftermath
of the Aluthgama/Beruwela incidents, the decision taken by the Muslims to steer
clear from these politicians and to take their own political moves was the most
appropriate. But the Yahapalana government has betrayed the Muslim Community by
still NOT making the probe on the violence of Aluthgama and Beruwela which
happened as a result of the communal racist actions of the so-called
nationalist Buddhist clergy organization and Sinhalese groups, which is
suspected to have taken place with the connivance of a Rajapaksa family member,
OR is the Yahapalana government trying to cover-up the involvements of a
prominent former Mahinda Government Minister of the UNFGG's who
won the elections in Kalutara District at the 2015, and left the country on the eve of the violence? Mahinda might have been a bad example of a
leader for the Muslims, between 2010 and 2015, but we cannot discard him as a
political power. The rest we have to leave to God AllMighty Allah. Therefore the decisions for the Muslims of Kegalle, Mawanella and Thihariya joining the “Pada
Yatra” fits correctly to the thinking of the late Muslim political leader at
that time – late T.B. Jaya. News about Muslims joining beyond Thihariya
is not available at the writing of this comment. This is also what “The Muslim
Voice” also advocating, Insha Allah. This is what "THE
MUSLIM VOICE" is striving to do from the wilderness of the Muslim
political arena, Insha Allah.
It is time up that a NEW POLITICAL FORCE that will be honest and
sincere, to stand up and defend the Muslim Community politically and otherwise,
especially from among the YOUTH, and safe guard the DIGNITY of our community
has to emerge from within the Sri Lanka Muslim Community to face any new
election in the coming future, Insha Allah.
Noor Nizam. Peace and
Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP Stalwart and
Convener - The Muslim Voice".
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