President turns down Killi’s request to appoint Tiran

- Aug 19, 2015

The president has steadfastly turned down a request by Sirasa Media Network owner Killi Maharaja to name corrupt businessman Tiran Alles as a national list MP of the UPFA, reports say.

President Maithripala Sirisena has kindly informed Killi that he cannot violate his slogan of eliminating the corrupt at the general election by appointing Tiran. He has gone onto say that he has a justifiable suspicion as to why Tiran has not yet been arrested over the swindling of tsunami money of RADA.

Tiran is boasting these days that attorney general Yuvanjan Gunatilake, a pupil of his mother, will never order his arrest. The flowers sent every year by the AG on his mother’s birthday was brought this time by Tiran to his Mawbima office and put it on display. Among his friends, he refers to the AG as ‘Yuvanjan Aiya’. With the aid of Yuvanjan Aiya, Tiran Malli is getting, through the Supreme Court, his arrest delayed by the week. Without stopping there, he tries to enter parliament somehow. If he succeeds, he can use parliamentary privileges to his advantage.

During the general election, Tiran tried to get friendly with prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe by publishing his advertisements in Mawbima free of charge, say sources at the newspaper.