 Return to LNP
This News Site:
Lanka Newspapers is the largest Sri Lanka News forum online. Thousands of Sri Lankans from around the world gather here daily to discuss current news events of Sri Lanka. Join Today!
|
|
|
Mangala attacks Bribery Commission, Kotelawala
Friday, 11 November 2005 - 4:43 AM SL Time
|
|
|
UPFA Presidential candidate Mahinda Rajapakse`s campaign chief Mangala Samaraweera yesterday launched a scathing attack on the Commission to Investigate Bribery and Corruption, Ceylinco Chairman Lalith Kotelawela and two private newspapers, all of whom he alleged were biased towards the UNP candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Addressing his penultimate campaign news conference on behalf of Premier Mahinda Rajapakse, Minister Samaraweera charged that Mr. Kotelawela was engaged in an attempt to create racial and religious tensions in the country, by portraying the Prime Minister as a candidate advocating religious and ethnic chauvinism.
'It is obvious that Mr. Kotelawela has no comprehension of history when we see these ads he inserts into the newspapers. He should remember that we are all Sri Lankans first,' Mr. Samaraweera said.
Mr. Samaraweera added that the Society for Love and Understanding which is publishing the advertisements appeared to be a one-man show to fulfill Mr. Kotelawela`s ambitions.
'These ads are just cheap tactics by Mr. Kotalawela to bolster Ranil Wickremesinghe`s campaign and it is pathetic,' the minister charged.
Moving on to the Bribery Commission which dismissed his complaint against the UNP candidate`s alleged computer fraud earlier this week, Mr. Samaraweera said that the commission had seen it fit to inform the newspaper owned by Mr. Wickremesinghe`s uncle and another pro-UNP publication about the dismissal of the case, even before letting him know.
'I received this letter on November 9th, which was dated November 8th and the secretary to the commission had written that they had decided to dismiss the complaint after intense scrutiny of the documents submitted because the case did not appear to be a violation of existing corruption laws. I would like to know how the commission can have claimed to intensely scrutinize the complaint in three weeks, even without recording a statement from me'' the minister said.
Mr. Samaraweera claimed that he was shocked that the complaint had been rejected, but added that the UPFA planned to take further legal action in the future. 'But this is not about the elections, so we will look into the matter further only after November 18,' he said.
Also going on the offensive against Mr. Kotelawela was Consumer Affairs Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle who said that the Ceylinco Chairman who was not even a Catholic by birth appeared to be more protective of the Christians in the country than generational Christians themselves. 'Why is he so worried about them, if we`re not' We are Christians by birth,' charged the Minister.
Also addressing the press briefing, Joint Campaign Spokesman for the Premier Wimal Weerawansa denied that he had ever said that the pledges of the Mahinda Chintanaya would be included in the budget. In a major retraction of a statement Mr. Weerawansa made at a similar press briefing last month, he said that the budget only set out certain policies that would enable the promises in the Chinthanaya to be implemented.
'The Mahinda Chinthanaya is a six year plan, this Budget is only for 2006,' the JVP MP said explaining away the lack of campaign pledges in the budget presented to Parliament on Tuesday. He added that most things will be approved via Cabinet papers after Mr. Rajapakse took office as President. Meanwhile, Chief Economic Advisor to the Premier Ajith Nivard Cabraal explained that there was insufficient time to include the Chinthanaya pledges in the budget for 2006. He said that a budget is drafted as early as a year before it is presented and said that since the manifesto was released only recently, theFinance Ministry did not have sufficient time to study the proposals and incorporate them. 'Besides, some things do not need budgetary allocation to implement,' he added.
|
|
|
YamunaI
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 193
Member Profile
|
11 Nov 2005 01:34:40 GMT Report for Abuse
|
| The only person Mangala does not attack is himself.As a minister he should attack the unemployment problem,the tsunami problem,the high cost of living,the budget deficit,the ethnic conflict.Instead he attacks almost every person his goggle eyes come across.The white dove from the sudun nelum days has turned out to be an owl with bulging eyes!He is an insult to mankind and I wonder how Mahinda intends to usher in a descent society with Buddhist values having Avamangla as his right hand man. |
Lokka
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 161
Member Profile
|
11 Nov 2005 08:03:20 GMT Report for Abuse
|
Simply reflects his own third-class mentality. Having had no proper education, or a proper upbringing, what would you expect?
I wonder whether he was like this when he was a batik salesman, sucking up to the sudda's to make a living!
Or maybe, if someone had a look at what he had to sell, but ended up not buying... he'd start to berate them accusing them to to be mafia gangs sent by his competitors...
What a loser! |
David
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 48
Member Profile
|
11 Nov 2005 09:20:39 GMT Report for Abuse
|
Oh Dear, What desperation!
And that statement 'Mr. Kotelawela was engaged in an attempt to create racial and religious tensions in the country' - what a load of crap.
If you want to see people who have engaged in creating racial and religious tensions in the country, just look at some of your partners in this election. The ones you so much wanted to bring in to the fold and embrace.
The nation looks forward to sunrise on 18 November 2005. Oh what a wonderful day it will be. You and your cronies including those who have engaged in creating racial and religious tensions in the country will be heaped with the dung thanks to the peace loving and tolerant citizens of this land. |
john54
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 44
Member Profile
|
11 Nov 2005 10:53:16 GMT Report for Abuse
|
| Samaraweera sham of an accusation has been exposed as what it was, an attempt to shield Rajapakse from some of the flak over Hambantota. It has failed. He should now just try to keep his head down and hope that people will forget about it, as trying to extend the matter makes him look even more ridiculous. |
Capslock
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 34
Member Profile
|
11 Nov 2005 15:30:05 GMT Report for Abuse
|
| Lalith Kotalawela is a Christian fanatic. He has been fanning the divisions of religion by funding the extremist campaign of the Christian evangelists to convert non-Christians into Christianity by hook and crook. And he is running scared because the electorate has reacted against Christian fundamentalism rampant in Sri Lanka. |
anizam
Senior Member
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 1867
Member Profile
|
11 Nov 2005 15:42:49 GMT Report for Abuse
|
If Mahinda and Mangala have even an ounce of brains They would have just ignored the whole thing and this news would have died a natural death. However, these two fools keep this in the news for weeks -
Mangala you are doing a wonderful job for ranil :) :) |
Capslock
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 34
Member Profile
|
11 Nov 2005 16:00:04 GMT Report for Abuse
|
The types of things this Lalith Kotelawala funds:
Christian evangelists are on a roll in Sri Lanka. During the past few decades many reactionary Christian organisations originating in the west have swept into Sri Lanka with the single aim of converting all non-Christians to Christianity. Having arrived in a 'third world' country,their reasoning is that all niceties and norms of decency can be dispensed with; evangelism is carried out through whatever means necessary without any thought for the consequence, even if this means creating a religious conflict. Sri Lanka must be on high guard if she is to preserve her religious harmony, for looking around the world it can be seen that religious conflict has not been far behind wherever Christian evangelists have set up shop.
http://www.geocities.com/focussrilanka/towards.htm |
anizam
Senior Member
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 1867
Member Profile
|
11 Nov 2005 16:16:12 GMT Report for Abuse
|
Hey All:
If you can read Sinhalese read this on Lankadeepa. A JVPer who crossed over to the UNP is killed and his body is dumped in a well....
See how close the LTTE and the JVP are.... :) :)
http://www.lankadeepa.lk/2005/11/12/front_news/8.html |
maharoof
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 125
Member Profile
|
11 Nov 2005 16:20:03 GMT Report for Abuse
|
Anizam,
do you want us to believe what pro unp, pro ranil lankadeepa writes? |
Capslock
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 34
Member Profile
|
11 Nov 2005 16:27:23 GMT Report for Abuse
|
| I can only hope the evangelists haven't managed to place their fingers into Ranils posterior. If not for the Christian evangelists and their facist campaign of conversion the JHU would never have arisen. |
|
