Sampath Hapuarachchige

Banking and Financial industry Professional, Nature lover, mountaineer and an avid reader.

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@trolljeppo ඩොලර් කීයක් හම්බ කරලද දන්නේ නැහැ දැන්

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@Jesii_ca_M Germany🔥

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@canusanka @Chathurangaab

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@KavithaRatwatte @MarkJCarney @johnmcdonnellMP @PresRajapaksa

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@MGaneshathasan @Chathurangaab

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@Thusi_Kumar Too late to post such a fairytale, I guess🤣

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@danukalive Well said👌

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@RobertaFresque2 2 & 3

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@PasinduSenanay7 Will JVP bear the loss by settling it?

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@Im_amila He's saying issues have been identified and corrective measures are underway. What has he been doing all this time? This is another academic with no knowledge or hands on experience to run a business
entity. Lecturing in a university and running a business are two different jobs

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@UmeshMoramudali Increasing tax is not a viable option anymore. People will try to evade tax rather than complying with tax authorities if any further increase. Instead the Govt should try to expand the tax base and cut down its own expenses by restructuring loss making SOEs.

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@PasinduSenanay7 Nobody was against of making it public. Everyone was laughing at the AKD's "Hundu" mentality of trying to gain cheap political mileage over the matter.

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@PasinduSenanay7 JVP is good at only disruption and sabotage. JVP opposed both Sampur and Uma oya power plants with no basis which is acceptable. As a result we faced power cuts and that was the main reason crippled the entire economy.

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@Thusi_Kumar India as a main power of south Asia, plays a much bigger role in Sri Lankan politics than Oxford and Cambridge. This was a good platform for NR to capitalize himself with his own standpoint to a wider audience and I think he did it very well.

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@alisabrypc @OxfordUnion @cambridgeunion This is the very reason why the Tamil diaspora should never be trusted. This is a clear example they don't want to give up on Tamil Ealam. Their true nature will never change and continue to emerge whenever there's an opportunity. කැලේ මාරු උනාට කොටියගෙ පුල්ලි මාරු වෙන්නේ නෑ

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Well said👌

[M U M Ali Sabry @alisabrypc]

The decision to cancel pension entitlements of former Members of Parliament serves no real economic purpose. It is a symbolic act designed to satisfy short-term political optics and play to public anger.

The amounts involved are negligible. Saving this money will not fix the economy, reduce the deficit, or improve public services. Not even marginally.

But the damage this decision causes is real.

I personally know former MPs who relied on this modest pension as the only means of securing a dignified retirement after years of public service. Removing it does not punish corruption, it punishes those who did not enrich themselves in office.

This sends a dangerous message about who politics is for in Sri Lanka.

Politics is now effectively reserved for:
• the ultra-rich,
• those with inherited wealth, or
• those permanently maintained by party machinery.

Talented, capable, independent citizens who are not financially privileged will simply walk away from public life. That is not reform, that is exclusion.

Those who abused power don’t need a pension.
Those who are gainfully employed don’t need it.
Those protected by party structures don’t need it.

But those who served honestly, and left office with little do.

The message is unmistakable:
Politics in Sri Lanka is only for a select few. Everyone else need not apply.

If reform was the true objective, the solution was obvious:
make it optional, subject to application and scrutiny, not a blanket abolition driven by populism.

When viewed alongside other developments, it becomes hard to ignore a broader pattern: the steady narrowing of political space and the quiet encouragement of a one-party-dominant culture.

That will not be easy in Sri Lanka, nor should it be.

Multi-party democracy is in our genes.
We are one of the oldest democracies in Asia.

Reform should strengthen democracy, not quietly hollow it out.
Justice should be targeted, not theatrical.
And governance should be guided by reason, not applause.

This decision deserves serious public debate not blind celebration.

P.S. I have never applied or intended to apply for pension and since my parliamentary term was less than 5 years I am in any event not entitled to apply.

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@NewsCenterLk A joker who once advocated people can violate the constitution.

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@PasinduSenanay7 Simple theory. Kill the opposition members and grab the power...