Where is the 2 week's Politics leading to?

Where is the 2 week's Politics leading to?

President Maithripala Sirisena took action in making Mahinda Rajapaksa all of a sudden to make him the Prime Minister around 7.20 on the eve of 2th Friday. Exactly a fortnight later at approximately 10.15 last night (9) the President next has decided to dissolve parliament all of a sudden once again. As such, the Maithree - Mahinda coalition which was effected with parliament closed down came to an abrupt halt in just 2 weeks. But during the meantime the 29 ministers of the cabinet appointed are to be given limited powers until a new government is established as a caretaker

government.

Maithri appointed Mahinda as his Prime Minister with the motive with dreams thinking that Mahinda would acquire a majority in parliament. He thus planned out a transit period of about 3 weeks and thus gather parliament with big hopes of Mahinda would be successful in building up that majority with the aid of his brother Basil.

Instances when Basil had made various trips to meet several people were reported. Mahinda, Namal and even S.B. had spoken in the public media that they entertained no doubts about their majority. During the last fortnight there were 10 instances where ministers were sworn in and a certain strategy was launched where ministerial portfolios were bestowed time and again dreaming of UNP members of parliament and ministers were afforded time to break away from their party and join their clan. However though 6 broke off from UNP and joined Mahinda ... later it came to a halt. Even the operations launched to collect elements from minor political parties reached a climax.

After one MP was preyed upon from TNA, the others happened to collect 15 and went to the extent of throwing threats at Mahinda that they would be opposing Mahinda. In the meantime the UNP too engaged in a process of retrieving the 'break away' crowd and in such circumstances Manusha said in public that he opposed Mahinda. Talks with Muslim members too ended in disaster. To counteract the process of getting caught in the grips of the other party, Badiudeen and Hakeem took steps to take their crowd in parliament on a tour to Mecca.

In the meantime, only 86 heads were present at the meeting to indicate their support to Mahinda. As such it was evident that they could no longer gather the 113 they spoke of highly! Under these circumstances with the estimated crowd not turning up, Maithri on the other hand was thrown into a state of shame by allowing Mahinda to go into the throes of defeat by reopening parliament on 14th. The next alternative was to dissolve parliament in order to erase this utter mess with the hope of getting over the unanticipated embarrassment. 

In fact, Maithri ultimately took steps to dissolve parliament which incidentally was already powered by a majority of over 113. This then was the finale of a defeat of an anticipated struggle for power which dawned all of a sudden, so to say. It is of course true that the public was dejected of Ranil - Mangala economic attitude and other numerous reasons. But on the one hand, everything should happen in line with the constitution. By that time it stabilised government that refuge in the parliament.

There however is no special welfare that the public gained by rooting out a stabilised government which had another one and a half years to complete its period, thus putting it into an unstabilised situation. What legal scholars say is that both decisions taken are not constitutional. But it a debatable question as to whether it could be challenged against the executive President and gain victory in courts. If Mahinda faction is considered separately, this will turn out to be a victory for them. They somehow of other toppled the government. But the Mahinda faction would have looked forward to clearly achieving a massive victory only if they would have been patient the next few months without getting involved in something like this and gaining a win under Gothabaya. A talk goes round that Mahinda faction liked this change to remove legal cases against them or to make influences on it. Whatever it is, after the strength of the new cabinet coming under his purview, the election is to be conducted, there is opportunity for making influence now.

In any case the Presidential Election was scheduled to be held towards the end of 2019 and the general election towards the middle half of 2020, what actually took place as a result of this coercive procedure was a large number of floating votes been dejected over politicians. This then would be a deciding factor at the election at hand. It was those who made a 'jump' who actually became instant millionaires in a financial sense from the  political joke of just a fortnight! As the bulk of them just cannot face the public again, they have no way of climbing over the hill anymore!