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I did not
know his back ground other than that he was the General Secretary of the
JHU. He was outspoken and seemed to have
a sincere and a definite political
direction to be with the President Mahinda Rajapakse to take
Sri Lanka
At a time
when I wrote a serried of article on Sarath N Silva to the Sri Lanka Guardian,
I had the opportunity through a good friend in UK
He was very
understanding and spoke to me encouragingly about the government of the
President Mahinda Rajapakse and that he is pleased to work with him as a
President taking Sri Lanka
But his
political affiliations during the latter part of 2014 took a surprising uturn. I refused to put him in a bracket with
Athuraliye Ratana thera whose politics
was a mixed confusion. I thought differently of Patali
Champika. Champika was so close to the
President Mahinda Rajapakse, therefore his sudden change of heart with a
strange 19th Amendment with 10 demands put along with Ratana Thero
to the President for immediate acceptance failing which threatening to change
camp to support the Common candidate,
was a shocking revelation of the man’s unpredictability.
But it is
now that we see clearly that, Champika had been right along playing a role
besides Athuraliye Ratana. His action in
quitting President Mahinda Rajapakse to put his weight behing Maitripala
Sirisena was second only to the action taken by Maitripala Sirisena
to eat hoppers with the President at night, and declare the following
day that he has accepted to be the Common Candidate of the UNP and the
Opposition. But I had naively
believed that Patali Champika was made
of better stuff.
What made
him take that sudden decision ?
It could not have been a question of Corruption
of the Mahinda Rajapakse and his government because if it were that he could have quit the government long
before, but why now to put his weight besides
an unknown, untried, weak politician, without
any strength of character; leaving a charismatic, strong , patriotic leader,
capable of taking firm political decision knowing very well which way to take
the country forward, veering away from
political obstacles put on his
path by strong reactionary forces ?
Is he so
strongly determined to highlight corruption of the former President and his government,
because he has himself something to hide, therefore projecting a pretended visage of an
honest man fighting against dishonesty ?
If so what
is the skeleton Champika is hiding in his proverbial cupboard ?
On 11th
February;2015, Daily Mirror Reported, “….
Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka today vowed to publish a
blacklist exposing all the VIPs and higher-ups who have allegedly amassed
billions of rupees and dollars of ill-gotten lucre and other assets during the
tenure of the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime. He had said “I have credible information about their bank accounts,
the amount of filthy lucre and their sources. I expect to expose all of them
with their names shortly,” adding that, “
taking legal action against them would not be a difficult task because the list
would contain the necessary hard evidence.”
Apparently
it is not the first time Champika makes such allegations earlier
on 1 September, 2014 he said he looks forward to expose the fuel mafia,
and then he was to expose corruption in
the CEB.
He had said
that he had in fact published a book in which he had included all cases of
corruption in the CEB. Then later, when
the
Minister Wanniaratchi exposed a fraudulent substandard coal deal during the period the
Ministry was in charge of Champika.
He then said that he knew about it, though he
did not include that in his book of corruption in the CEB. He said that he had made a complaint to the
CID, but he was ousted from the Ministry before he received the report. However, the CID had said later that no such complaint had been received. That does not leave Champika entirely free of
his responsibility for at least the fraudulent substandard coal deal.
Does that
and his removal from the Power and Energy Ministry have something to do with is
u-turn to support Maitripala Sirisena ?
If not what
is the reason for his deep seated
vengeance against the President Mahinda Rajapakse ? Could
it be that he nurtured a secret desire to take his place ?
The Daily
Mirror further reported, “Commenting on the corruption and mismanagement under
the Rajapaksa regime at the Lanka Electricity Company Ltd. (LECO), the minister
said when institutions of law and justice and law like the judiciary and the
Attorney General’s Department work hand in glove with protect corrupt
politicians and officials, the prevention of corruption was extremely
difficult.”
Champika was the Minister in Charge of Power and Energy , therefore can he wash his
hands from his own responsibility as the Minister in Charge of the Ministry for corruption and mismanagement at the Lank Electricity Company Ltd.(LECO) by putting it
under Rajapakse Regime ?
There is
some thing fishy about it ?
Champika
you do not seem to be that clean as you pretend to be.
It was on
the 11 February, 2015, that Patali Champika Ranawaka vowed to publish the
blacklist exposing all the VIPs and
higher-ups who have allegedly amassed billions of rupees and dollars of
ill-gotten lucre and other assets during the tenure of the Mahinda Rajapaksa
regim ? It is overdue. People are awaiting, stop the bluff and come
out clean.
It is recently
that I happened to come across the video
where Professor Nalin de Silava, who had known Patali Champika Ranawaka from
his student days exposed what Champika had been
and the reason why he is with people
we thought were completely outside his professed political principles as the
Secretary of the JHU.
But from
what we gather from what he had been, as
Professor Nalin de Silva who knew him
before 1987, that is well before he
became the Secretary of JHU, we can now understand that he is after all with like minded people now and
that his patriotism and his pontifications about corruption and filthy lucre
and their sources are also bogus pretensions to cover his search for his
personal political power, caring less for the well being of Sri Lanka .
Patali
Champika had been jumping from, ‘ one political pillar to
another political post’, in search of political power to some
day assume the leadership of a political
party.
Nalin de
Silva however exposes his political hypocrisy in a
video :
In this he
says that Ravaya has credited Champika
with the Jathika Chinthanaya, which he never was and Ravaya has no right
to credit Champika as the initiator of Jathika Chinthanaya. Champika had never been a patriotic nationalist.
Though
Champika has joined hands now with Ranil Wickramasinghe, it was Champika who
had taken the students on to the road to manifest against Ranil’s white paper.
In Horana
Champika was the JVP student organiser. He was a JVP activist when he joined
the Moratuwa University
He refused to be a patriotic nationalist
saying that Nationalism is a dead carcass which he does not want to carry.
When he
left JVP he joined Mangala
Samaraweera to form the Ratavesi
Peramuna, and worked for Mangala Samaraweera in 1994.
Then along
with Mangala Samaweera he joined Chandrika Kumaratunga and supported her infamous package to the terrorists. Champika
who along with Ratana thera
claims to have worked to defeat the terrorists seems to be a another false
boast.
Nalin de Silva says Champika carried out a poster campaign
against war-against terrorists . He
jumped from being a Marxist to become a Nationalist, and even supported Tamil
racism.
Nalin de
Silva says that Champika would ride on the shoulder of any one to realise his dream
of taking over power, and finally joined
JHU having chased S.L.Gunasekara.
Then Champika
was for a time with the President Mahinda Rajapakse. Now he has joined with
Maithripala, Ranil and Chandrika to condemn Mahinda Rajapakse. He does not even give credit to the President Mahinda
Rajapakse for the elimination of terrorism and the tremendous development he
undertook completing 72 percent of the total projects under taken by the for
mer President Mahinda Rajapakse as shown
in the report Develoùment Performance
2014 (http://www.pmm.gov.lk/resources/Development_Performance_2014.pdf
Champika is a great fraud. His past should also be investigated for corruption.
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