Russel recalls how Sanath, the thug, raised clubs to attack
- Friday, 13 June 2014
Former cricket captain, Matara district MP and posts deputy minister Sanath Jayasuriya, who had stormed the Ruhuna University along with a group of thugs to attack students who had opposed plans to hold Deyata Kirula exhibition in the campus premises, in a statement to ‘Ada’ newspaper has said that “I have never raised a club to attack in the whole of my life. I do not have a group of thugs. I do not engage in such politics.”
However, former opening Test batsman and commentator Russel Arnold has recalled, in a Twitter message, how Sanath had raised clubs to attack.
Russel says,
“Oi..@sanath07 mokada me? Mathaka nedda mata wicket eken enna daa?”
Responding, Sanath Jayasuriya has said,
“@RusselArnold69 mama polu ussala naa bang [@RusselArnold69.”
Commenting on this, a political analyst in Colombo said that although Sanath tries to claim himself to be a character without a blemish, he cannot escape from the dirty politics which he represents. He cannot escape that easily from the accusation that he had led thugs, and that he had been with them, to attack students of the Ruhuna University, and taking the Rajapaksa politics as a whole, Sanath just another thug, said the political analyst.
IPs complain to SC against IGP 
BY STANLEY SAMARASINGHE
Twenty one Inspectors of Police have complained to the Supreme Court that the Secretary to Ministry of Law and Order, Nanda Mallawarachchi and Inspector General of Police, N.K. Illangakoon, have intentionally violated the country's rule of law.
They made this complaint in a Fundamental Rights application filed in Supreme Court against the scheme through which Inspectors are promoted to Chief Inspectors.
The petitioners have cited the Secretary to Ministry of Law and Order, Inspector General of Police and 79 police officers, who have been promoted as Chief Inspectors.
According to the petitioners, they are inspectors of the regular service who have been promoted to the post of Inspectors.
The petitioners placed their grievance under Article 12(1) of the Constitution where the decision to promote 240 Inspectors of Police to post of Chief Inspectors of Police, based on an unjustifiable formula and failing to administer the impugned promotion scheme in a reasonable manner.
Due to arbitrary manner in which 79 respondents have been promoted to the Chief Inspectors of the Police, petitioners state that their seniority within police has been lost to the said 79 respondents.
The petitioners state that among the 240 officers who were promoted, 79 Inspectors of Police have not fulfilled the requirement of eight years service in the active service but they were absorbed as regular inspectors when they were serving as reserve inspectors.
The petitioner states that Secretary to the Ministry of Law and Order and the Inspector General of Police had violated the Establishments Code and the Constitution and regulations by the arbitrary decisions.
The petitioners requested the Court to declare that the respondents had not acted upon a valid promotion scheme and direct respondents to restore petitioners lost seniority within the service by quashing the promotions.
