President attacks ministers through Wimal’s website

Wednesday, 04 January 2012

The President is using Minister Wimal Weerawansa’s Lanka C News website to attack government ministers and opposition politicians, a senior government minister said.

The Minister said that website has been used to punish the ministers, officials and businessmen who ignore the President and the First Family and that a head in the Presidential Media Unit has been assigned to coordinate the stories.

The stories published in the website about a letter a sent by Sarath Fonseka’s daughter Aparna Fonseka to the President and of a Minister representing the Hill Country falling on a dance floor after consuming liquor have been given by the Presidential Media Units official.

The President has asked the heads of several corporations to give advertisements to the website for its maintenance and has give salaries to the employees of the website by giving them jobs in the state sector.

Journalist of the Divaina newspaper, Keerthi Warnakulasuriya is the unofficial editor of the website.

The President is now looking at buying over several well known websites in the manner in which he purchased several electronic and print media institutions that were not supportive of the government.