Ranil escapes assault
February 6, 2014 
United National Party (UNP) Kalutara District MP, Palitha Tewarapperuma, yesterday attempted to assault Party Leader, Ranil Wickremesinghe, for not giving nominations to the candidates suggested by him. The incident had taken place during the UNP Parliamentary Group meeting.
At the beginning of the meeting, UNP Colombo District MP, Sujeewa Senasinghe, had complained about the step-motherly treatment he had been receiving from the party leadership. While Senasinghe was expressing his views, MP Tewarapperuma had requested an opportunity to speak.
Soon after Senasinghe had concluded the speech, Tewarapperuma had started strongly criticizing Wickremesinghe and Chairman of the Leadership Council (LC), Karu Jayasuriya.
Addressing Wickremesinghe using the derogatory term 'thamuse,' Tewarapperuma had claimed that his son was not given nominations to contest the upcoming Provincial Council election due to his surname, 'Tewarapperuma.' He also said his son even went to Kachcheriya to change his surname. Tewarapperuma had emphasized, unlike the many sissies in the UNP he is a real man and those sissies do not allow any man to come up in the UNP. He claimed, "Sissies in the party are afraid of real men like me, hence they only work with other sissies."
While Tewarapperuma had been continuing his diatribe, Wickremesinghe had attempted to leave the room. However, Tewarapperuma had tried to drag him back into the room by grabbing hold of the Party Leader's coat.
When Wickremesinghe had started screaming in protest, only John Amaratunga and Akila Viraj Kariyawasam had come to his rescue. When Wickremesinghe's security detail had come into support him, Tewarapperuma had scolded them and chased them away.
At that point, UNP Vice Chairman, Lakshman Kiriella, had tried to intervene, but Tewarapperuma had scolded him too.
Tewarapperuma had then returned his appointment letter as electoral organizer to Kiriella. Furthermore, it is learnt that Kiriella had apologized to Tewarapperuma.
