Pushpa Rajapaksa, too gets Chinese attention
- Thursday, 17 July 2014
The Economic Development Ministry has got the Chinese government agreed to allocate 100 million dollars a year from the annual Chinese loans to Sri Lanka to ‘Liya Sarana’, a private project by Pushpa Rajapaksa, the wife of minister Basil Rajapaksa, say ministry sources.
Such a massive allocation from the loans obtained at very high interest is being made to realize her dream of becoming the wife of the country’s prime minister, and ultimately the first lady soon, say the sources.
Attempts by Basil Rajapaksa to get his wife nominated as the chief ministerial candidate at the last western provincial council election failed due to strong opposition by first lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa.
Chinese gimmick to win votes!
- Thursday, 17 July 2014
The external affairs ministry is planning to bring the Chinese president and the Japanese prime minister to Sri Lanka soon after the conclusion of the Uva provincial council polls, say ministry sources. The government is preparing to launch a massive media campaign to deceive the voters by using both these visits politically, say the sources.
The main objective of that campaign is to tell society that China’s government will take charge of Sri Lanka for a five year period. Advertisements in the media will tell the people that the massive aid being received from China and Japan will be used to make Sri Lanka a heaven on earth.
An advertising agency has already been given the responsibility of creating computer graphics of villages developed through that aid and these graphics will be shown by video at pocket meetings at village level. The plan is to get these advertisements published free of charge in the state media as development advertisements, while getting them published in the private media by paying exorbitant payments. The private media is also to be bribed to carry news and current affairs programmes disadvantageous to the opposition candidate, reports say.
