‘Younger brother lost to the country’s good fortune’ – Chamal
- Saturday, 17 January 2015
“I came to understand that there still is protection of gods and Buddhas in this country on the day my younger brother was defeated. Wrong is wrong if it is done by anybody, even my younger brother. I cannot think what would have happened to the country had he won. Still, this country has the protection of the gods and the Buddhass. That is why our younger brother lost,” speaker Chamal Rajapaksa told SLFP seniors at his official residence at Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte on January 14.
“None of you had the backbone to point out when the president was wrong. What you all had done was to feed on what was given and just look on. None of us thought Maithri was a person with such a backbone. Had he lost, Maithri would have been inside, just like Fonseka. Not only Maithri, they had planned to do harm to Chandrika Madam too. But, our country is fortunate,” he said while having tea with the SLFP seniors, who had been waiting for the arrival of president Maithripala Sirisena. At that time, the former president, too, had been in a different room at the speaker’s residence. The party seniors listened silently in approval to what the speaker told them.
Bar Unanimously Calls For De Facto CJ Pieris To Step Down
anuary 17, 2015
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka today called upon De Facto Chief Justice Mohan Pieris to step down from the position.
Mohan Pieris
“At an emergency meeting of the Executive Committee of the BASL, which was attended by close to 90% of its members, it was unanimously decided to issue a statement calling for the resignation of Chief Justice Mohan Pieris in order to preserve the honour and integrity of the Judiciary in view of the grave and continuing damage being caused to the entire Judiciary as a result of the recent events and uncontradicted reports that Mohan Peiris, while functioning as Chief Justice, was at Temple Trees from prior to dawn of 09th January, 2015 at a time when election results were being announced and political and executive decisions were being taken.” Upul Jayasuriya told Colombo Telegraph.
