A peek at Mahindananda’s history!

Friday, 05 December 2014 

In 1987, Mahindananda Aluthgamage was only a collection officer at The Finance company’s Kegalle branch. His wife Asha was an employee at the Kuliyapitiya branch of Singer company. Some years later, she left it and opened a battery store at Kuliyapitiya town.

Mahindananda’s brother Vidyananda was invited by the SLFP to enter politics during the UNP regime in the 1990s. But, Abdul Cader of Gampola and Keheliya Rambukwella of Kandy opposed his politics. Due to the pressure exerted by them, Vidyananda left Sri Lanka for Japan, where he married a wealthy Japanese girl. Then, he started spending lavishly for his brother Mahindananda to engage in politics.

With his brother’s support, Mahindananda contested for the Central provincial council and became its health minister. Thanks to that position, he amassed wealth through multinational companies and tender scams. With the support of multinational companies and those who had obtained tenders through him, Mahindananda built a house at Aniwatte in Kandy, which is far bigger than the biggest house there, which belongs to Rambukwella.

The other person who has helped Mahindananda to amass such wealth is Mano Tittawella, the then People’s Bank chairman and a leading figure of Chandrika’s kitchen cabinet. For example, it was through Mahindananda that his business partner then, Vajira Palliyaguru, got a Rs. 02 million overdraft without any bond within 10 minutes from the People’s Bank to pay the instalments she had missed to pay to People’s Leasing in lieu of her 10 vehicles, just one hour after the leasing company had seized the vehicles.

After that, his position as the deputy minister of power and energy became a wealth-earning treasure for Mahindananda. It was him who had done all the deals, while his minister John Seneviratne just sat on his chair. Mahindananda had done all that deals through Hemantha, who owns Kelani Cables. Those deals went such far that Mahindananda’s wife Asha now lives with Hemantha. Mahindananda cannot open his mouth against either of them. Asha and Hemantha both know everything that had been done in a 27 year period from 1987 to 2014 by this garrulous rascal Mahindananda Aluthgamage. That is the reason for his remaining glued to Mahinda Rajapaksa, even if Namal Rajapaksa leaves his father and joins the opposition.