The politics of class permeates certain societies that haven’t outgrown the idea that certain classes of people should make it their business to be politicians aspiring for leadership positions.įor example, the late Chanaka Amaratunge, the founder of the peripheral Liberal Party of Sri Lanka believed that the landed classes should be in politics and form the leadership elite of the nation at the exclusion of others such as middle-class or working class folk, for instance. It seems to have something to do with what is called ‘class politics’. Jayewardene with his so-called open economy policies.Ĭhandrika is interested in resurrecting the SLFP she destroyed, at least according to Gunadasa Amarasekera? If so, why? Basically she detached the party from its Sinhala Buddhist moorings and married it to the free market culture that was spawned by J.R. Recently, Gunadasa Amarasekera making some observations on the SLFP anniversary said Chandrika destroyed the party. Strange, from someone who seems to have already finished off the job perfectly. Hers was a whimsical comment not a passing one – she says no one can destroy the SLFP. Seems as if the person most interested in the commemoration that hardly took place, was Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the ex-President. Someone made a passing comment on the 75th Anniversary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).
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