Rajpal, who lost his trousers in Geneva, writes love letters to Vickramabahu!

Friday, 06 February 2015 

Daily News editor Rajpal Abeynayake, who lost his trousers along with the purse and the passport at a brothel in Geneva’s Red Light District and then campaigned on behalf of the Rajapaksa regime, has begun a new game in order to safeguard his position, say Lake House sources.

That game is to invite opposition activists, whom he had called until now as tiger, pig, traitor and wretched, to write a column for Daily News. He has remembered all of them due to the fear that he would lose his job. By inviting traitors to write columns for Daily News, he tries to suggest that the newspaper has now become democratic.

Once, international media described as how he had tried to attack Callum McRae, Jonathan Miller and other Channel 4 television personnel during a debate after failing to answer their questions. Since Channel 4 personnel were cultured ones, they did not retaliate, but it is Asoka Samararatne, owner of Samararatne Associates law firm, who has taught him an unforgettable lesson. When Samararatne responded to Rajpal, who had abused prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in filth, he had to be hospitalized.

Karu Paranawithana, at the time Lake House editorial director and presently the information ministry secretary, paved the way for Rajpal to enter Lake House.  Rajpal too, is a person like Mohan Peiris, both of whom do not have any sense of shame. He has sent a message to the media ministry saying that he was prepared to write anything as wanted by the government. That is the same story told by Mohan Peiris to Ranil. If Rajpal does not resign, the best thing to do would be to appoint Asoka Samararatne as his deputy, say the legal fraternity.

This man Rajpal grossly misuses his twitter and facebook accounts. During the presidential election, when Risath Badurdeen came to support common candidate Maithripala Sirisena, Rajpal described him as a ‘bloody pig’, the worst insult possible for a Muslim. When Sanjaya Senanayake, son of the late Sunila Abeysekara, died untimely, Rajpal wrote in his twitter that a dog has died. Is it good governance to allow such wretched persons to hold editor positions?