Told off by president Mahinda, Hakeem goes to meet Geneva Mahinda!

 Monday, 03 March 2014 

Soon after being severely reprimanded at the cabinet meeting last Friday (28), justice minister Rauff Hakeem had gone with a very dejected face to the office of plantation industries minister Mahinda Samarasinghe, known among his cabinet colleagues as ‘Geneva Mahinda.’ 

Minister Hakeem has gone there at the invitation of minister Samarasinghe. Soothing the former, who was almost crying, the latter has advised him not to take decisions in a hurry.  “I can understand your situation. What you did was to tell to the world the injustice caused to the people who have voted for you. But, communalistice groups poison the mind of the president. They want to see that you leave the government. But, do not commit the folly of giving into them. Try your utmost and cling on. Wait for the right time to come.” Saying thus, Geneva Mahinda had kept his colleague at his ministry for nearly two hours.

Encouraged by the words of his friend, minister Hakeem has left, saying, “A time will come for all of us to come out. Let’s be patient until then.”