(Lanka-e-News, 22.June.2011, 11.55PM)
National list United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) M P A H M Azwar who told in Parliament that Prabhakaran’s wife and children are being provided protection by the President made an announcement today that was something diametrically different .
Azwar stated yesterday in Parliament ,that the American Forces killed Al Qaeda leader Bin Laden , his wife and children , but Sri Lanka President is protecting the wife and children of Prabhakaran, and those children are attending School. This announcement sent a wave of shock among many people.. May be he made this utterance , because the body of the wife of Prabhakaran was not found although the bodies of the children were discovered.
Azwar , this morning made it a point to first declare that his statement in Parliament yesterday had been misreported. But after the opposition MPs objected and insisted that he did make such a statement and that there was nothing wrong in the reporting , Azwar admitted his serious blunder and tendered an apology . He then claimed that what he meant to say was , Tamilselvan and his wife are being given protection and not the wife and children of Prabhakaran.
It is well to recall that Azwar is a noted ‘ballty baba’ (of course, not one among those sold in the pavements), rather ,he is a somersault expert having changed parties more often than not. Earlier he was in the UNP and then pole vaulted to the President’s camp purportedly to strengthen ‘President’s both hands’. No matter what , his misleading statement in Parliament has become a theme of conversation among all, for, by that , despite the fact that he is a senior politician ,he has made a gross betrayal of his ignorance of a fact that even a kindergarten child is aware – Prabahakaran's wife and children are no more.
