Resigned Lakbima Editor Believes Mahinda, Gota, Sajith And Tiran Want Him To Go
May 6, 2014
The editor of the Lakbima newspaper, Saman Wagaarachchi has resigned today.
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The owner of the newspaper, ruling party MP Tilanga Sumathipala had been under intense pressure from the President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa, UNP MP Sajith Premadasa and another newspaper Ceylon Today’s owner – DNA MP Tiran Alles, the editors’ resignation letter implies.
According to the resignation latter seen by the Colombo Telegraph, Wagaarachchi named above persons and says they had visited the house of the newspaper owner Sumathipala and urged Sumathipala to remove Wagaarachchi from the post.
