Charitha Ratwatte the new Minister of State Enterprises?

 Jan 23, 2017

When Charitha Ratwatte”s brother Suren who only uses the word F in most of his sentences and his Chairman Dias without telling the board decided to lease out new aircrafts with out the board sanction. Both ran to the Prime Minister for cover. First the brother Charitha who is an Advisor did the selling to the unsuspecting Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister who is getting tired of settling the problems of the Air Lanka Board ask the 80 year ex Chairman of John Keels Balendra to settle the problem. Mr. Balendran intervened and softened the board.

Next Charitha Ratwatte directed Minister Kabir Hashim to approve the lease entered by his brother and Chairman Dias who protects the former CEO of Sri Lankan Kapila from being prosecuted. Minister Kabir Hashim was not willing, as there is a charge against him filed in the Bribery Court. A UNP Minister who wished to remain anonymous said that Minister Kabir is so weak that his ministry is being run by Ratwatte, a man who spent 10 years criticizing the Prime Minister when in opposition saying he is a loser. Now after the party won he and his brother are living off the government he noted. Neither has plunders of the Airline been prosecuted so far by Hashim.

It is a shame for Hashim who is also the General Secretary of the party to be bullied by a man like Ratwatte. By the time the Prime Minister’s friends finish with Sri Lankan, the airline will have to be sold for junk only, observed a captain of the airline. What hold Ratwatte has over the Prime Minister is a mystery for the President and the SLFP.