by ELMORE PERERA
Your switching allegiance to Ranil and singing the praises of the 17th Amendment and the CFA and thereafter switching allegiance to Mahinda, all in the name of Good Governance, was not only amusing, it also damaged your credibility beyond repair, it seemed. Chandrika is reported to have recently stated that when she proposed to abolish the Executive Presidency (presumably to honour her written undertaking to do so by 15th July 1995) you had said not to and asked her to keep it for one or two years.
On August 4, 2010, waxing eloquent in Parliament you bravely vouched for the honesty and uprightness of Sri Lanka’s Judiciary on the basis that 50% of the judges serving the country at present, including the Chief Justice, had been your students at one time and the majority of these judges were men and women of the highest integrity. Perhaps because you prescribed no remedy to rehabilitate the minority whose shortcomings could have had a disastrous impact on the credibility of the majority, a student of yours felt strongly enough to say that “G.L. Peiris, the Law Professor of decades back is eminently not the same as G.L. Peiris, the expedient politician of the past decade and most certainly of the present”.
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