TIME TO EXORCISE “YAMA PAALANA” DEVILS !

One by one, the devils in “Yama Paalana” regime are coming out to the utter disappointment of those who voted for a change.

One would have thought there could be some hidden agenda looking at the way ministers like Ravi Karunanayake and even the Prime Minister defended the actions of the then Governor of the Central Bank.

The fiasco started off with the then Finance Minister, Ravi K. issuing an undated letter saying that the government needed funds which in itself is not the job of the Finance Minister.

The nexus between Arjuna Mahendran and Ravi K. was exposed by a JO member in Parliament at that time but sadly no one took much notice of it.  In fact at that time Ravi K. defended himself branding all others around including government servants, private sector staff and Parliamentarians as rogues.

One may recall the foreign exchange control case where Ravi K. was the accused but he was acquitted due to a technical error and the judge herself is now retired.  One could also remember the CWE fiasco when Ravi K. was a Minister in the short-lived UNP government under Chandrika Bandaranaike.

The latest exposure beats everything else: the one where Arjun Mahendran’s son in law Aloysius went to the extent of paying for a luxurious apartment for Ravi K. and his family.  An open and shut case of undue influence on the Minister to safeguard those accused of the Bond scam.

One should thank the President for boldly going ahead with the Presidential  Commission of Inquiry into the Bond scam in spite of efforts by the UNP ministers including the Prime Minister to white-wash the Mahendrans.

The President should, in the same way, initiate action to summarily sack Ravi K. from the cabinet and also take appropriate action to confiscate illegally acquired assets of the ex-Minister of Finance if the so called Yahapalana government really means business. 

With this exposure it is patently clear that there are no Mr. Cleans in this government and those tarnished with accusations cannot be cleaned even by “Dry Cleaning”

There is an apt Sinhala saying which loosely translated to English goes like this: “ If the paddy is eaten by both the bund and the fence, to whom can one complain”