Dullas & Dilan congratulates Punchinilame!
- Wednesday, 18 December 2013
The Ratnapura high court today (18) absolved Susantha Punchinilame, then a UNP MP and now a UPFA minister, of the murder of MP Nalanda Ellawala and a driver of Dilan Perera at Kuruwita in Ratnapura on 11 February 1997. According to reports, the then closest friends of the murdered MP, Dullas Daham Kumara Alahapperuma and Dilan Perera have congratulated their cabinet colleague over his acquittal.Susantha Punchinilame was also accused in the killings of medical student Padmasiri Thrimawitharana and two others in October 1988 and it is a well known secret that he had crossed over to the government in order to escape from the two cases. Accordingly, the Colombo magistrate’s court a few years ago cleared Susantha Punchinilame in the Thrimawitharna case and 16 years later he was found not guilty today in the Nalanda Ellawala murder. It is ironical that he is getting the acquittal from a SLFP-led UPFA government.
In a show of tribute to his best friend, the murdered Nalanda Ellawala, Dullas Daham Kumara Alahapperuma had named his son after him, but 16 years later, he is shaking hands with the murderer in show of the dark nudity of Sri Lankan politics. As Dullas’ beloved wife, songstress Pradeepa Dharmadasa asks, “Nadu Nethi Ratakata Monawada Payanawada Soorya?’ (meaning – why does sun rises in a country devoid of court cases) we have to ask the same question.
Mangala takes PM's side
- Wednesday, 18 December 2013
UNP leadership council member - Mangala Samaraweera says that leveling baseless charges against Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne is unacceptable.
He was speaking on behalf of the opposition while opening the 14th allotted day for the Committee Stage Debate on the Appropriation Bill (2014).
The UNP MP emphasised that the Prime Minister is neither a fraud nor a drug trafficker.
MP Samaraweera also revealed in parliament that the government has spent funds on 07 MPs of the UK's Conservative Party.
He also questioned as to who came on a jet from Israel to the recently concluded CHOGM.
A heated situation took place in Parliament after the MP raised the question.
Courtesy - Sri Lanka MIrror
