Rajapaksa’s War Exhibition Temporarily Halted
anuary 19, 2015
The government today announced that it has made a decision to tentatively suspend holding the Deyata Kirula exhibitions that were held during the Rajapaksa regime wasting exorbitant amounts of public funds.
But the government stated that despite halting the exhibition temporarily, the development activities out to be implemented subsequent to the exhibition will continue as planned minus the unnecessary costs.
UNP and JVP slammed the government for proposing the Deyata Kirula exhibition during the previous years, stating it was wastage of Rs. 26.5 billion state funds. Despite the protests and objections however, it continued and in 2012 alone the Rajapaksa regime spent a whopping Rs. 25.5 billion for the event which was held in Oyamaduwa, Anuradhapura.
CT Forced To Cold-Shoulder Recently Awakened Gamini Keerawella
January 19, 2015
Prof Gamini Keerawella, an avid commentator in another era who maintained a conspicuous silence for almost nine years on the many excesses of the recently ousted Mahinda Rajapaksa regime whose ideological preferences were at odds with his, has requested Colombo Telegraph to publish one of his articles.
Prof. Gamini Keerawella
Keeerawella wrote to CT; “I am sending herewith an article on the defeat of Rajapaksa regime. I wish to publish it in Colombo Telegraph also as it has wider circulation.”
Colombo Telegraph is not inclined to publish his article in the usual format reserved for contributors for the following reasons: a) Keerawella’s strange and unacceptable silence over the past 9 years explanation for which he is yet to furnish, b) the fact that Keerawella was a beneficiary of monies running into millions during Chandrika Kumaratunga’s tenure as President when he served in several organizations such as NIPU which did little justice to the investment made.
Keerawella is an advisor to the former President Kumaratunga (2002-2003, 2004-2005) and received a political appointment as the Secretary to the Ministry of Ethnic Affairs, National Integration and Mineral Resources Development (2000-2001).
