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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Friday, September 30, 2016
PC Kalinga finds new god!
These
days, one of the personalities with the biggest demand in the legal
circles is president’s counsel Kalinga Indatissa. Anyone summoned to the
FCID hurries to meet with him to obtain legal advice. For the first
meeting alone, he reportedly charges several millions of rupees. It is
said that three or four million rupees is nothing for those who are
having the FCID-phobia.
Anyway, Kalinga is a capable person. His Devale is being used as the
abode by various gods from time to time. Once it was Lalith Kotelawala,
then Mahinda Rajapaksa, now Pujith Jayasundara. The entire set of old
friends of the UNP is these days having Kalinga’s Devale as their abode.
When PC Kalinga writes letters to the police, he calls them as ‘My Dear
God,’ it is said. Seeing that calling, those in the police are much
flattered. And, there is nothing more left for Kalinga to flatter them.
The other thing is that PC Kalinga is a very honest man. More than Gods
Vishnu, Kataragama, Saman and Vibheeshana, it is those from the police
who fatten his bank account. Therefore, rather than the unseen gods,
what is wrong in calling the policemen who are visible to the eye, to be
called ‘My Dear God?’
Furthermore, just like he says, those who are being summoned by the FCID
are not those who observe Sil on the four Poya days of the month, but
those who had swindled money for the past 10 years. The first thing
those who swindle money should do is to save something for their court
cases. So, what PC Kalinga is asking for is that money.
Kalinga reveres those in the police, while those in the police revere Kalinga.