Anura Senanayake is certain he can poll 

300,000 votes if he contests!

Tuesday, 12 August 2014 

“I am a very popular person among the Colombo people. If I contest, I can very easily obtain 300,000 votes. I am a person like that but, the president of the Bar Association says he cannot trust me. I am very sorry that Mr. Upul Jayasuriya has thought very lowly about me,” said DIG in charge of Colombo Anura Senanayake at no: 01 courtroom to Coombo chief magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya today (11).

He said so while making a lengthy speech, to the laughter of the lawyers, before the magistrate in response to notice issued to him to appear before the court. Thumping the desk before him, the DIG said further before the chief magistrate,

“I am experienced in court matters. Magistrate courts, high courts, appeal courts, supreme courts all are familiar to me. These lawyers, judges all know how much I am committed to my work. I am very sad when there are charges that a person like me cannot be trusted. I admit that a motorcycle had ambushed Mr. Upul Jayasuriya’s vehicle. I deployed 26 of my best men to investigate. I will somehow arrest those responsible and produce theme before court. When the Bar Association charged that they cannot trust me, I felt sad, wrote a two page letter to the IGP and withdrew from the case.”

At this juncture, presidents counsel Thilak Marapana and Srinath Perera, who represent the interests of the BASL president, said that without beating around the bush, that what they want is the deployment of two policemen for Mr. Jayasuriya’s security. Rejecting that request, Anura Senanayake said that he cannot do that, but it was up to law and order ministry secretary Nanda Mallawarachchi to do so. Since he is overseas at present, the senior DIG said, he could not say for certain how long it would take to provide that protection.

Specail thanks - BASL secretary, Attorney at Law  Ajith Pathirana