Why Keheliya Says Our Honourables In Diyawanna Must Undergo Psychiatric Examination
By Shyamon Jayasinghe –July 7, 2016
Shyamon Jayasinghe
Keheliya Rambukwella,MP, has proposed to the Speaker that all MPs should go through a psychiatric test. One can speculate that the proposal came from self-realisation.
This gentleman came to Australia while he was Minister under Mahinda Rajapaksa. His son,in the cricket team, was undergoing surgery and fatherly love brought him Down Under at taxpayer expense. He stayed in a Five Star for some days and one fine such day he was reported as having fallen off the third floor of the hotel down to the bushes in the ground floor. Down the palling!
Gossip being the blood of Sri Lankans, stories were constructed about how The Honourable could have had this strange fall. Some gossipers said he was drunk because he had a reputation for intoxication. Others alleged Keheliya stealthily went to peep into the neighbouring room and missed his step. Whatever the truth of all these are The Honourable managed to get some Twenty Million Rupees from the President’s Fund! It is alleged he had also got over a hundred thousand dollars as settlement from the hotel that kept his body and mind. We do not know if he had private insurance, in addition. If so, he is entitled to that,too. Well, let us not envy the poor Honourable bloke. The point is that he fell from floor number three down to floor zero and so one must sympathise.
We have to guess the condition of the mind of a man who would have undertaken such a Quixotic adventure. By the way, this is the 100th death anniversary of the famous Spanish novelist, Cervantes, who wrote the classic Don Quixote. It is appropriate time to analyse this. I wish we had the services of the psychiatrist. Was it a DNA condition? Didn’t Keheliya’s cricketer- son try to open the window of an aeroplane while flying over 30,000 feet high? Whatever, let’s hope Keheliya sets the example, goes to a psychiatrist and assure us that he is fit and running for the post of MP.
