Aragalaya Was Not A Party Asset
Aragalaya was not merely anti-Rajapaksa. That is the cheap version. The deeper demand was this: public power must stop behaving like private property. That standard does not expire when your preferred party wins. It applies to the Rajapaksas. It applies to Ranil. It applies to AKD. It applies to the NPP. It applies to ministers, secretaries, police, monks, judges, state chairmen, friends, funders, activists and every newly holy person who thinks history has given them a pass. Nobody gets a private entrance into public power. Nobody gets to say: corruption was evil when they did it, complicated when we do it, and sabotage when you ask about it. That is the line. If the NPP wants to prosecute the old order, good. But the same light must fall on the new order. Otherwise it is not justice. It is recycling.
