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Sri Lanka Govt. trying to win the Derby with a Donkey - Ranil
Wednesday, 3 December 2008 - 4:22 AM SL Time
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Leader of the Opposition Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament yesterday that the Government appointing Ajith Nivard Cabraal as Governor of the Central Bank was like entering a donkey to win the Derby.
The Opposition Leader s comment came after he observed that appointing the retired army officer Asoka Thoradeniya may not help the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation to turn around its loss of Rs. 2 billion and become a profit making corporation. `Maj. Gen. Thoradeniya may have been an efficient army officer but there was a doubt whether he could make the CPC efficient,` he said.
Leader of the House Nimal Siripala de Silva said `We appoint heads of corporations. Please be mindful that the government makes appointments and not the opposition.`
UNP Polonnaruwa District Member Earl Gunasekera, proposing a Rs. 10 token cut on the votes of the Minister of Transport and Highways said the government had not been able to maintain the country s road network in good condition. The British colonial rulers had left the country 75 years ago but the government did not even build a 10 kilometer expressway.
Gunasekera said the roads were so bad that it took more than four hours to travel a distance of about 50 kilometers especially in rural districts. There had been a number of expressways started, but so far the Colombo-Katunayake expressway or Colombo-Matara expressway are incomplete. In fact no work was started on the Colombo-Kandy expressway but the work the previous UNP government started seemed to have been abandoned.
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KURAL
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 2 Dec 2008 22:27:25 GMT Report for Abuse
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Donkey Ranil ??
LOL..
You forgot a semicolon MrBrown. |
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2 Dec 2008 22:30:11 GMT Report for Abuse
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Good man. Not for SL politics.
Agreed 100% !
Edited By - KURAL - 2 Dec 2008 22:37:18 GMT |
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 2 Dec 2008 22:33:11 GMT Report for Abuse
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Donkey Ranil,..good when he is asleep...:):))
no use for the country, no use even for himself..
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 2 Dec 2008 22:39:22 GMT Report for Abuse
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Who is the jockey??
Sure this will make Caba raala very angry.Lets see whats the reaction of Moda raala
Edited By - jacob99 - 2 Dec 2008 22:41:24 GMT |
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2 Dec 2008 22:40:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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You forgot a semicolon MrBrown
? with purpose
this is abuse Mr B. Ranilocide. |
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