1st in blacklist as UDA chairman!
Thursday, 22 January 2015
One of the most corrupt persons in the Rajapaksa regime, former secretary to the highways ministry, chairman of National Water Supply & Drainage Board and Road Development Authority, Ranjith Premasiri has been recommended by a brother of the president as chairman of the Urban Development Authority, reports say.
A fortnight before the presidential election, we carried a special report regarding this corrupt man, which described how he had gone to various provinces together with the then finance secrerary Dr. P.B. Jayasundara, met politicians and granted them contracts of the highways ministry.
Born in Beliatte, the hometown of the former president, Premasiri had been employed in the southern development authority in 2005 and had obtained bribes from Rs. 500 upwards at that time. He has become a very wealthy person by amassing wealth by nefarious means in the past nine years.
He has the most number of complaints of election malpractices against his name in the black book maintained by the UNP’s communication unit during the presidential election. We say with responsibility that there clearly are conspiracies to topple the new government.
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Wimal gifts new party to Mahinda!
Thursday, 22 January 2015
NFF leader, former minister Wimal Weerawansa is making an attempt to bring ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa back to active politics. In the light of Rajapaksa’s having lost the SLFP chairmanship, Weerawansa has stressed that it was imperative a new party is formed under Rajapaksa’s leadership by bringing all his supporters together in order to make the patriotic groups active again.
According to the plan, the former president is to be given the leadership of Patriotic People’s Front, of which former MP Piyasiri Wijenayake is the general secretary and under which R.A. Sirisena, a real joker, contested the last presidential election.
Weerawansa wants to contest the parliamentary polls in a few months time under this party led by Rajapaksa. However, sources close to Rajapaksa say his priority now is to strike any deal possible and get the allegations against his children and him covered up, rather than returning to active politics anytime soon.
