We all, including even ardent UNP supporters accept the fact that Ranil is not a genuine leader nor he is having great personality. He got into politics due to his family background and his uncle J R cleared the initial path of Ranils political career. Afterwards it was just windfalls all the way into the post of Prime Minister.
Ranil was ever dumb sitting in the side of his uncle JR when the infamous Indo-Lanka peace (or rather piece) accord was signed while the leaders like Premadasa and Athulathmudali were against it considering the negative effect of this accord for the country.
Later, when Lalith and Gamini were fighting for democracy with the president Premadasa, Ranil was playing his ever dumb and passive role gracefully.
He got his initial rewards for being dumb in the post of 'leader of parliament'. It is a well known fact that Premadasa always kept people with leadership qualities at arms length while keeping mere characters in the key posts. While D.B Wijethunga was Premadasa's choice for the post PM, Ranil was his obvious dumb candidate for the third in the rank.
Ranil met with more windfalls when LTTE start killing the real leaders of UNP, namely, Premadasa, Lalith and Ranjan..
Still this dumb character lost its party leadership when Gamini came back to the UNP grab the leadership back from Ranil.
It was LTTE again came to rescue Ranil by brutally killing Gamini in the middle of presidential election campaign.
The story behind Ranil's political career is as simple as this. Being dumb and get the rewards.
There are parties who love dumb and muppet leaders, because they know that only muppets that can be danced to their tones.
That is why LTTE and international community love this clown so much.
'Being dumb and get the windfall'may be a great success for Ranil's personal goals, but this has greatly blocked the progress and nurture of true leadership within the UNP itself and for Sri Lanka.
It has proved from well over dozens of election results that 'being dumb' may get through the party hierarchy and there are handful of dumbers in the UNP itself to accept Ranil as their party leader, but the people of this country are not dumb to elect and accept a dumb character as their national leader.
Now, UNP is paying the price for working with a dumb leadership for too long. It's the responsibility of UNP members and supporters to work and come out of the culture of dumb leaderships before it's too late.
Ranil was ever dumb sitting in the side of his uncle JR when the infamous Indo-Lanka peace (or rather piece) accord was signed while the leaders like Premadasa and Athulathmudali were against it considering the negative effect of this accord for the country.
Later, when Lalith and Gamini were fighting for democracy with the president Premadasa, Ranil was playing his ever dumb and passive role gracefully.
He got his initial rewards for being dumb in the post of 'leader of parliament'. It is a well known fact that Premadasa always kept people with leadership qualities at arms length while keeping mere characters in the key posts. While D.B Wijethunga was Premadasa's choice for the post PM, Ranil was his obvious dumb candidate for the third in the rank.
Ranil met with more windfalls when LTTE start killing the real leaders of UNP, namely, Premadasa, Lalith and Ranjan..
Still this dumb character lost its party leadership when Gamini came back to the UNP grab the leadership back from Ranil.
It was LTTE again came to rescue Ranil by brutally killing Gamini in the middle of presidential election campaign.
The story behind Ranil's political career is as simple as this. Being dumb and get the rewards.
There are parties who love dumb and muppet leaders, because they know that only muppets that can be danced to their tones.
That is why LTTE and international community love this clown so much.
'Being dumb and get the windfall'may be a great success for Ranil's personal goals, but this has greatly blocked the progress and nurture of true leadership within the UNP itself and for Sri Lanka.
It has proved from well over dozens of election results that 'being dumb' may get through the party hierarchy and there are handful of dumbers in the UNP itself to accept Ranil as their party leader, but the people of this country are not dumb to elect and accept a dumb character as their national leader.
Now, UNP is paying the price for working with a dumb leadership for too long. It's the responsibility of UNP members and supporters to work and come out of the culture of dumb leaderships before it's too late.
