Arjuna threatens Anura !

 Wednesday, 04 February 2015

Following the complain made by the leader of JVP Anura Kumara Disanayake against the Cricket Board secretary Nishantha Ranathunga to the commission of bribery and corruption, it is reported that the ports and naval minister Arjuna Ranathunga has threatened the JVP leader Anura Kumara.

Arjuna who has called Anura and asked has he got evidences against his brother to produce in the bribery and corruption and told him not to do false allegations.

Further he has told he is planning to contest in the coming election in the Cricket Board.

Nishantha Ranathunga who is currently the secretary of the cricket board is ready to contest the same position if his elder brother is contesting for the chairmanship.

However there are plans to appoint the younger brother Dammika Ranathunga to the Chief Executive Officer of the Cricket Board.

What The Hell Is Going On?

By Emil van der Poorten –February 4, 2015 

Emil van der Poorten

In a previous column I raised the issue of what, if anything, some of the recently-appointed members brought to the Sirisena/WickremesingheCabinet and its subsidiaries.

While some of those appointments were obviously driven by the political compulsions of a broad coalition, many of them were inexplicable in the context of a government laying claim to any degree of democratic morality and supposedly dedicated to cleaning out the Augean stable of violence and corruption that they had inherited from the Rajapaksa rabble.

Already, the man who had a well-documented track record of being purchasable for the occasional air ticket – John Amaratunge – has effectively proven that he should NEVER have been appointed to any position of prominence. Will the Sirisena/Wickremesinghe cabal even now divest themselves of this guy, when, of all things, he stands accused of being involved in thuggery of a kind that was the very forte of the Rajapaksa bunch and the elimination of which was the avowed intent of the new government? I know that what is invoked every time a suggestion of this kind is made is the tired old saw, applied particularly to criminal conduct, that a person is innocent until proven guilty. However, given the moral foundation that the current government lays claim to, I would suggest that if there is even the hint of unacceptable conduct, those so accused should stand down, at least temporarily, until the issue is resolved. This is not some revolutionary principle that some Sri Lankan genius invented. It is a time-honoured practice that has proven its worth over and over again in countries that practice the governing practice called democracy.

*There are at least a couple of glaring examples in Australia, one of which was simply an attempt to salve the hurt feelings of a woman jilted by one of the Royal Family, the exercise requiring accommodation (and designation befitting an experienced diplomat) for, not only herself, but her family as well!

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