~ Soren Kierkegaard Can I take that ? If I take it, what can happen to me, my family and my country? These are the nagging questions, the opposition wants the people to ask themselves about the National People’s Power ( ) and its leadership. But would the people ask these questions and if the opposition is correct in their assumption, how would the people answer them? A totally new context is being created. A challenging circumstance is being forced on the AKD and his Party.
As a matter of fact, the fundamental challenge of the NPP remains this very context. And its resolution to the NPP’s favor would be the one they are hoping for. But the NPP cannot vacillate on this very critical issue.
Any hesitancy or procrastination would be seen as conceding to the opposition and that alone would be the death-knell for its desire and wish for an electoral victory, either at Presidential or Parliamentary elections. Seen through the prism of the electorate, these questions are very valid and legitimate. Having launched a political movement in 1971 as a revolutionary party wedded to the Marxian principles and a violent overthrow of an incumbent government, then transforming itself into a mainstream political party committed to parliamentary democracy in 1978 and then again going back or being driven into political exile by the Jayewardene government in 1982, reemerging as a political tool of murder and chaos in the ’87 – ’89 period cannot be deleted from men’s memories so soon.
