What Mahinda Means

There’s no way in hell I’m voting for the UPFA this time, because Mahinda is there. In case you’d forgotten, this is what Mahinda means:

  1. Mahinda everywhere: I’d almost forgotten, but Mahinda used to plaster his face everywhere. During the Presidential election you literally could not go 100 meters without seeing his face. It’s just arrogant and gross and speaks to bad character. You don’t see Maithripala’s face everywhere, because he’s not a pompous ass.
    • As a side note, haven’t you wondered who paid for all of Mahinda’s marketing? It was either us, through our tax money, or it was Mahinda supporters, who expect to be paid back via contracts and favors. Both annoying and corrupting.
  2. Idiots everywhere: Mahinda’s douchebag brother-in-law running SriLankan Airlines like a brothel, his golaya Sajin Vaas slapping our UK High Commissioner and the High Commissioner losing his job for it, his sons deciding to be astronauts or sailors or Bollywood playboys on our dime. Fuck that.
  3. Wastage everywhere: Aside from the face litter, Mahinda blew tremendous amounts of money on Mihin Lanka, unwanted development in Hambantota (people literally dry paddy on highways now), trips abroad (more than 2 billion from 2012-2014), and God knows what. He literally used the country as his personal piggy bank, and I don’t want that no more.
  4. Law nowhere: Mahinda did free the country from terrorism, but you still had to be terrified that any johnny that cut you off in traffic or spilt a drink would be connected. There was that Pradeshiya Sabha guy in Tangalle who killed a tourist and raped his girlfriend in public, and the cops still took months to arrest him. There was the young rugby player Thajudeen who it now emerges was stabbed and murdered, but whose death was never investigated.
    As ‘safe’ as the country was from suicide bombers, it was still a mafia state where the connected were above the law, and where they could take your life, bodies or property at any time. Don’t want that no more.

Honestly, that’s just the start. I really don’t want Mahinda back. I have hope that even if he does claw the Prime Ministership back, he will be well checked by President Sirisena, but I don’t want him back in power at all. To be completely honest, his two terms were finished. He could have retired with respect – from me also – but he keeps clinging to power. I think it’s partly personal greed, but also because the entire mafia behind him wants the old days back – the big contracts, the cars, the trips abroad, the ability to rape and kill and steal. That’s who’s backing Mahinda, not the SLFP, who he is basically a cancer on.

So I don’t want that. Mahinda means mafia to me, and I’m not in the mafia. This election I’m going to vote for good governance. And yes, for me that means the UNP. 6, 21, 12.

64 Comments

  1. We can either have a stable Mahinda led government which was controversy plus results or a UNP + TNA government which is nothing but a big gaping black hole towards chaos.

  2. Underworld figures rising their head, people being killed in broad daylight, human bodies in suitcases, toddlers raped and decapitated, Rs. 50 billion gone up in smoke, a country on the verge of splitting, a leader who grants political positions on homosexual favours and one who cannot emphasise with the middle – lower class.

    Your choices are so colombo-hipster and know nothing beyond the comfy gates of the Colombo 7 mansions they reside in.

    Please… this is very unbecoming of you as a blogger. There are things you understand and things you never will so please enjoy the billions of Dunamis you married into (yeah, all 32 million shares x Rs.30 of it) and wait.

    Remember that Mahinda is merely a single candidate standing from Kurunegala. Why are you so afraid?

  3. One of the more interesting things about this elections is how the internet is either balanced or possibly slightly in favor of Mahinda.

    On a side note, right now JVP is emerging as a very real threat to the UNP. The JVP is siphoning a lot of votes from the UNP/Yahapalana camp. And the recent infighting in the UNP and other comedies by Ranil is not helping them.

  5. True, we do not want to live in fear. Though terrorism is over we face another kind of terrorism by the mahinda government. We want to live in peace. So therefore i would like my country to have a peaceful atmosphere without any jvp violence, ltte, or muslim riots. The government that comes into power by this election should keep that in mind.

  7. @patriot, Im most afraid of you deluded ignorant yokels, probably never picking up an independent news article and using whatever is left in that empty cavity above your head. Atleast now we have somewhat competent people in positions trying to repair the damage of public opinion that MR’s cronies have unstilled in the government. MR had a chance. He accomplished a great feat, freed us of terrorism and then used this to instill an oligarchy of favorites and abolish term limits. Term limits are inspired by the Roman Hero Cincinnatus, who used to take the sword and the position of “dictator” to defend Rome against barbarians and then reliquised his power once the threat was dealt with. This is the example of public service followed by great men everywhere, what we got was a man who did something great, got it into his head, and you “bumkins” going all out to make him the next Robert Mugabe. All anyone asks is to vote your conscience. MR is a strong leader, no doubt, but consider whom he brings along to run our country. So educate yourselves and choose wisely, not out of some blind loyalty.

  8. Niu,

    I have a Bachelors, Masters and Attorneys from places you won’t be able to afford in 5 generations :). So please, do not rattle on about the non existent.

    You speak of great men relinquishing their power but RW has held the leadership position of the UNP from 1994 under 4 separate SLFP leaders, lost 29 elections and still manages to run his dictatorship in the UNP by relegating everyone who opposes him to the boondocks. 21 years of authoritarian control!

    MR is running as a candidate from Kurunegala. That is all. The Prime-Mistrial candidature of the UPFA has not even been decided yet.

    So please think of the following quote before you speak next time;

    “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.” – Marcus Aurelius

  9. From lee kuan yew to mahathir mohomad to park chung-hee didn’t respect the western definition of term limits. Now see where their countries are compared to countries like Sri Lanka that respected everything that was taught to us by the west.

    what ever the theories, the people decided that they don’t like a president holding the position for 3 terms. That is a done deal now. This is a parliamentary election and UPFA is the safe bet considering that Ranil, CBK, various war time NGO activists, foreign countries could not have got together without a reason. If we need this country to continue as one strong nation and not two loosely coupled states UPFA is the safe bet.

  10. So please don’t vote….there are people who will….
    Don’t think of people who support MR as idiots…they just see something you cronies are not willing to see..before you guys start banging around saying nonsense about my educational qualifications…I like to say that I’m a medical doctor and proud of supporting MR.

  11. What will be will be. One will only know after the 17th. August amidst the present chaos prevailing in both major parties. All our opinions are irrelevant.

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