‘When Media Minister quotes an unknown website, it shows the fear the govt has against us’ - Namal slams govt.

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Says articles against his qualifications keep surfacing when govt. is attempting to cover up its own failures
Media Minister Nalinda Jayatissa citing an unknown website report in Parliament shows the govt.’s desperation to hoodwink the public
Calls on govt. to fulfill its pledges as one year gone with no results
SLPP MP D.V Chanaka says the government should instruct the CID team who are presently in London to probe Ranil Wickremesinghe’s expenditure to also visit City University of London to verify Namal’s credentials

Colombo, Nov. 19 (Daily Mirror) - National Organizer of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa today called on the government to concentrate on fulfilling its long overdue pledges made to the public rather than focusing on spinning lies against the opposition members.

Speaking to the Daily Mirror, Namal said that an article which had surfaced on an unknown website had claimed that his law degree was questionable and also blamed the Sri Lanka Law College for accepting his admission, putting into question the entire Law College admission procedure.

Namal said that for a media minister to raise an unverified report in an unknown website showed the government’s desperation to spin lies against him and stressed that this was done just days ahead of the opposition’s November 21st rally.

“When the NPP was in the opposition they raised allegations against my qualifications as and when it suited them. Now they are doing the same in the government. Infact the matter is being investigated but they are unable to prove their false allegations. This allegation has been surfacing every now and then for the past ten years. It shows the NPP’s failure just as the allegations of the Uganda monies,” Namal said.

Namal further cautioned that there was a dangerous path being set by the government of using questionable ‘investigative journalists’ to spin out fake articles against the opppsition members and said that the fact that this article came out days before the opposition rally on November 21 is questionable.

“Clearly the government is worried to set this so called article published just ahead of our rally. They know they have failed and are now unable to answer the public,” he said.

SLPP Parliamentarian D.V. Chanaka urged the government to utilize the CID team who were presently in London to probe the allegations against Ranil Wickremesinghe to also visit the City University of London to verify Namal Rajapaksa’s qualifications.

Chanaka said that rather than publishing unverified articles on unknown websites written by questionable journalists, the government should prove its allegations rather than just words.

He also called on the government to stop exposing its fear against the opposition rally on Friday and called on them to provide answers of the false doctorates given by their own NPP Parliamentarians and provide answers to the pledges given to the public a year ago.

Comments - 6

rbh Wednesday, 19 November 2025 05:49 PM

The country is not bankrupt, every one in oppossition are speaking like it. and Japan has once again come forward to invest in Sri Lanka. In the past, Japan withdrew from several major projects because of bribery and corruption cases under previous governments. At the same time, drug trafficking was openly growing, yet no strong action was taken to stop it. Serious incidents like the Easter Sunday church bombings also took place under those leaders, raising many questions about security failures and political negligence. Now the same past leaders are accusing the NPP of running the country bankrupt, even though the economic collapse was caused long before. They are also condemning the Rs. 200 wage increase for tea labourers, which is a basic humanitarian requirement, not a political mistake. In short, the people who were responsible for corruption, failed security, drug growth, and economic mismanagement are now blaming others for problems they themselves created.

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Mina Wednesday, 19 November 2025 06:22 PM

People are very happy with this government and thousands of promises you all have made during your governments for decades ,should be probed before you pin point your finger against the 1 year old government. They cut your perks, they sent your papa out from the palace like building, they increase the salaries of government servants. Remember they have done much more than what you all did during the years of your governance.

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Mina Wednesday, 19 November 2025 06:22 PM

People are very happy with this government and thousands of promises you all have made during your governments for decades ,should be probed before you pin point your finger against the 1 year old government. They cut your perks, they sent your papa out from the palace like building, they increase the salaries of government servants. Remember they have done much more than what you all did during the years of your governance.

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Mina Wednesday, 19 November 2025 06:22 PM

People are very happy with this government and thousands of promises you all have made during your governments for decades ,should be probed before you pin point your finger against the 1 year old government. They cut your perks, they sent your papa out from the palace like building, they increase the salaries of government servants. Remember they have done much more than what you all did during the years of your governance.

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Lokka Wednesday, 19 November 2025 06:39 PM

Why don’t you go to judiciary rather than shouting and file a law suit against those who challenge your qualifications in public domain which tarnishes your image. It is amount to character Assassination so go to courts and punish the wrongdoers.

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pardeep Wednesday, 19 November 2025 07:53 PM

The people who pushed this country toward total failure and bankruptcy are now trying to give advice on how to govern it, even though it is finally on the right path. What a joke!”

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