PREACH LIKE US THEN DO THE OPPOSITE PM HIS SON MUST GO

Heroin racket: PM’s son benefited from suspects – Monks

December 24, 2013, 12:00 pm 

National Organiser of the National Sangha Council, Ven. Pahiyangala Anandasagara Thera stresses a point at the media briefing. Ven. Rajawatte Wappa Thera (centre) and Wattahene Vijitha Thera look on. 
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By Madura Ranwala

President of the National Sangha Council (NSC) Ven. Rajawatte Wappa Thera yesterday alleged that the provincial council election campaign of Prime Minsiter D. M. Jayaratne’s son, Anuradha Jayaratne, in  September, had been funded by those who brought in a container where heroin was subsequently found concealed in cans of grease.

Addressing the media at the All Ceylon Buddhist Congress Auditorium, at Bauddhaloka Mawatha, with National Organiser Ven. Pahiyangala Anandasagara Thera and Wattahene Vijitha Thera of the NSC, Ven. Wappa thera said that they had received information, from people in the area, that the PM’s son had spent millions of rupees to get the highest number of preferential

votes at the Central Provincial Council election last September.

The Thera also criticised the Bhikkus and other religious leaders, of the Inter Religious Alliance for National Unity, who backed the premier at a recent media briefing and added that they were interested only in their personal gain and not the country’s interests.

The Thera said that the coordinating secretary to the Premier had told the media that he issued the letter with the consent of the premier and therefore the premier should explain his stance without criticising the Bhikkus, who exposed his involvement in the incident, as it was the right of the Sangha to do so.