Wigneswaran saga is not a political issue – Sampanthan

I belong to Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka belongs to me – Opposition Leader R. Sampanthan

Courtesy: Sunday Observer

( September 6, 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) After finding one’s way up four flights of the dusty and poorly lit outside staircase to Rajavarothiam Sampanthan’s flat in the MP’s housing scheme at Keppetipola Mawatha, Colombo, on Friday evening, one cannot but feel for the 82-year-old lawyer-cum-political leader. But, despite the usual health challenges of age, physically frail, the somewhat portly, cherubic patriarch of Tamil politics is not. And this veteran politician remains as mentally astute as he always has been over his decades-long leadership of his community as, relaxing in verti and bush-shirt in his tiny sitting room, he laughs away concerns about his housing inadequacies, and replies probing questions about his outlook as ‘Leader of the Opposition’ in Parliament.

Wigneswaran Saga is Not a Political Issue – Sampanthan by Thavam Ratna