10 million bribe transforms Mahinda Samarasinghe from ‘Mahinda crocodile’ to ‘Mahinda land reptile’ (Lanka-e-News-05.Jan.2013, 11.00PM) Plantation Industry Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe by granting permission to divide a plantation land into plots after amending the laws illegally had received a bribe of Rs. 10 million according to reports reaching Lanka e news. The Minister after taking the bribe of Rs. 10 million is seeking to divide into plots the large land 25 acres in extent bearing the name Horampelle estate situated on the Colombo - Kurunegala Highway . It is specially noteworthy that this same Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe who prohibited the division of this land into plots earlier.  When a businessman who owns ‘Minuwangoda tractors’ purchased this Horampella estate for Rs. 120 million , and tried to sell it after dividing into plots , Mahinda Samarasinghe had disallowed it. This businessman had then sold this land to another trader . The latter is now preparing to divide the Horampelle estate land into plots and sell them . Mahinda Samarasinghe who refused to grant permission to divide into plots and sell had now permitted it. In this connection the bribe taken by Mahinda Samarasinghe is Rs. 10 million . In other words Rs. 10 million had transformed ‘ Mahinda crocodile’ into ‘Mahinda land reptile’. What wonders bribes work on ‘Mahinda’ in Sri Lanka!