A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Thursday, June 15, 2017
‘I’ll give Mahinda’s files if my son-in-law is given a ministry’
During
the recent cabinet reshuffle, a certain president’s counsel kept on
telephoning UNP chairman Malik Samarawickrama. Calling him three to four
times a day, this PC requested that his son-in-law, an MP from Matara,
be given a ministerial or deputy ministerial position. Knowing the man,
the UNP chairman tried to avoid him by saying various things. Until the
last moment, this PC had been in the embrace of Mahinda Rajapaksa and
obtained ambassador positions from him and being the ungrateful man he
is, he told Malik, “Malik, get my son-in-law’s matter done. If you do
that, I will give you several files about Mahinda Rajapaksa not even you
or the CID can find. No one else has what I have. For more than 20
years, I appeared for every case of Mahinda. No one else has the
documents I have. If they are exposed, Mahinda can be sent to life
imprisonment.”
In
the end, top figures in the UNP discussed this PC’s offer, and decided
that “After getting so much work done by Mahinda, if he is ready to
betray his client, what damage will he do for the party?” According to
reports reaching us, this PC is now castigating Malik and Ranil
everywhere. “I will do them all. I have the president in my palms.” That
is true, because, the president made him the TRC chief recently.
Maithripala Sirisena does not need a lot of enemies if he has a couple
of friends like him. In the future, this PC will tell Mahinda, “If you
make my son-in-law a minister, I will give you Maithri’s files.”