Namal says Basil sabotaged CHOGM!

 Thursday, 05 December 2013 

MP Namal Rajapaksa, senior son of the president, is publicly saying these days that despite government claims of CHOGM being a big success, it had been a failure and is blaming it on economic development minister Basil Rajapaksa. The president’s three sons, along with the first lady, have declared war against minister Basil Rajapaksa and defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, according to Temple Trees sources.

The crisis has worsened to such as extent that publicly accusing minister Basil of being biased towards the Indian government, rather than to the Lankan government, MP Namal is even saying to his face that he has become a puppet of India. It is not Jayalalitha, but Basil Rajapaksa who is behind the absence of the Indian prime minister at CHOGM, MP Namal says with full responsibility.

Also, MP Namal has made the president to take firm decisions against Lakshman Hulugalle, the controversial figure these days, in a clear demonstration of the enmity between the young MP and the defence secretary. After Hulugalle was expelled from the director general position at the MCNS, the defence secretary, in a unilateral decision even without obtaining persmission from the president, has appointed him the DG of NGO affairs. With the blessings of his father, MP Namal has now declared war against all of them.

Questions over monies allocated to MCNS in 2014 Budget

 Thursday, 05 December 2013 

Questions have been raised by the main opposition UNP as to what would become of the monies allocated to the Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) in the 2014 Budget.

UNP parliamentarian Dr. Harsha de Silva has posed a question in a television programme about the Rs. 24 million allocated in the 2014 Budget 2014 for the MCNS.

He pointed out that the MCNS was dissolved on an order from President Mahinda Rajapaksa but Rs. 24 million has been allocated for it in the budget.

Dr. de Silva has also said that another Rs.25 million has been allocated for 2015 and Rs. 24 million allocated for 2016 for the MCNS and that it showed that the government has prepared the budget unsystematically and aimlessly.