Panduka badly beats up Wijayani who writes ‘mud reports’!
- Friday, 30 May 2014
Panduka Samarasekara, a freelancer attached to the government’s ‘Dinamina’ newspaper, has badly beaten up Wijayani Edirisinghe, an editorial member who writes ‘mud reports’ for the newspaper.
Panduka is a person who often gets drunk and becomes involved in fights with other workers at Lake House. However, chairman Bandula Padmakumara takes no action against him, as the freelancer serves as a number one spy and tale-carrier for him.
Wijayani has insisted to the chairman that she will not write any more ‘mud reports’ supporting the government if Panduka is not sacked. As the situation is not good, the chairman suspended, though unwillingly, his servant Panduka with effect from yesterday (29).
Tele drama performance board dissolved to appease Reginald!
- Friday, 30 May 2014
Director general of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation Chandrapala Liyanage has replaced several members of its tele drama approval board after it had refused to approve for telecast ‘Sakisanda’, a tele drama directed by minister Reginald Cooray, who also plays the main role in the tele drama.
Approval board members Chandrasiri Dodangoda, Bandara Eheliyagoda, Buddhadasa Galappatti, Upul Udulegamgoda and Nishani Dissanayake, editor of ‘Samudura’ newspaper, were adamant that permission should not be given for the minister’s tele drama. All of these members have been now been removed and Neil Gunasekara, Ruwan Nayanajith and several officers of the Information and Media Ministry appointed in their place.
DG Liyanage has told Rupavahini director board members that the president has repeatedly told him to telecast ‘Sakisanda’ in order to appease minister Cooray, who has been criticizing the government and preparing to undertake a new political journey together with ex-president Chandrika Kumaratunga, but that he had no other option but to remove the tele drama approval board members after they refused twice to grant permission for his tele drama.
Minister Cooray’s tele drama is of such quality that even the ITN has refused to telecast it, saying that its prime time belt will be devastated if tele dramas of such quality are telecast.
However, it is an open secret that things happen at Sri Lanka Rupavahini to the wants of officials of the President’s Office, Ministry of Information and Media and the darlings of minister Keheliya Rambukwella, who fulfill his carnal needs.
