An influential figure behind the appointment of Eran as the Chief of SLC Transition Committee: Chamara

Colombo, May 2 (Daily Mirror) - There is an influential lady behind the appointment of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Member Eran Wickremaratne as the Chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) transitional committee, Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) National Organiser Chamara Sampath Dassanayake alleged yesterday.

“SJBer Eran has been appointed as the Chief of the SLC transition committee. He should have been in Maligawatte at the SJB May Day rally. I would like to tell people that certain influential ladies do many things, no matter who the people vote in as the heads of state,” Mr Dassanayake said during the SLFP May Day rally at Campbell Park.

MP Dassanayake then verbally attacked a number of ministers in the NPP government. “There is the minister in charge of justice. He is one Nanayakkara. He is from a family that has embraced socialism. However, he is like John Cena, an American wrestler. There is another one who is in charge of the Ministry of Public Administration. It is better if he remained a monk and enjoyed the Dana offered to him. He could be appointed as a Mahanayaka Thera. The sports Minister is like Sergeant Nallathambi. There is another one in Anuradhapura. One wonders how he could construct a five-storied house by selling the properties inherited from his family. There is another one in Uva who is earning large sums of money by selling pepper. There are more experienced persons in the SLFP who have held various ministerial portfolios. These include Mahinda Amaraweera, Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, Nimal Siripala de Silva and many more,” he said in this regard.

He said those in this government will face a worse fate than the former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa did. “The NPP Government is like a rotting, dead body. The time is ripe to bury it. In today’s context, one has to remove a government from power if it has failed. We tried to save the government of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, but gone are the days when one can save a government,” he said. Hitting out at the government further, Mr Dassanayake said the government has awarded a contract to produce digital national identity cards. “The very people who collected identity cards by force and those who talked of Indian expansionism are awarding tenders to Indian companies. Biometrics of Sri Lankan people will go to an Indian company through this exercise,” he said.