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Birthing a Nation - The Island
During the recent debate on the No-Confidence Motion (NCM) against Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody, Illankai Thamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) Batticaloa District lawmaker, Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam, warned that the next NCM would be moved against Fisheries Minister Ramalingham Chandrasekaran. Rasamanickam accused the National List member of corruption, a charge vehemently denied by the NPPer. The NPP/JVP needs to initiate an internal inquiry before corruption allegations overwhelm the party that received the full advantage of Aragalaya to transform the outfit from just a three-member parliamentary group, in 2024, to a staggering 159, a year later. The UNP and SLFP led alliances were dealt harshly by the electorates for want of action to curb corruption. Today, the UNP and SLFP are not represented in Parliament, while the SLPP, that secured 145 seats at the 2020 general election, was reduced to just three with its parliamentary group leader Namal Rajapaksa entering Parliament through the National List. Rajapaksa junior obviously feared to face the Hambantota electorate at the last general election. That is the undeniable truth. By Shamindra Ferdinando The ongoing controversy over Agriculture, Lands, Irrigation and Livestock Minister K.D. Lal Kantha’s three-storeyed luxury house has intensified pressure on the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) government struggling to cope-up with the devastating coal scam, blamed on Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody forcing him to resign. Jayakody, one of those who financed the NPP/JVP campaign in the run-up to the 2024 national polls ,resigned on 17 April, along with Prof. Udayanga Hemapala, Secretary to the Energy Ministry. Their resignations happened eight months after the Frontline Socialist Party (FSP), a breakaway faction of the JVP, revealed the alleged coal scam. The Lal Kantha affair received significant public attention though the primary issue at hand is the massive coal scam that ripped through the government. Jayakody will continue as a National List member of the ruling party. The NPP/JVP won an unprecedented 159 seats, including 18 National List slots at the November 2024 parliamentary elections. The Opposition dismissed government claims that the resignations were meant to facilitate the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the procurement of coal, since the commissioning of the country’s only coal-fired power plant during the onset of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s second term. I...
Sri Lanka's Political Clean-Up Promise Collapses into Scandal
During the NCM against Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody, ITAK MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam warned that Fisheries Minister Ramalingham Chandrasekaran could be next, ...
A Sri Lankan delegation led by Fisheries, Aquatic and Ocean Resources ...
A Sri Lankan delegation led by Fisheries, Aquatic and Ocean Resources Minister Ramalingam Chandrasekar, who is on an official visit to Norway, held a series of high-level discussions yesterday (23) in Oslo with senior officials of the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries. During the discussions, special attention was given to modernising Sri Lanka's fisheries sector and ...
A Guest List, Not a Policy Signal - jaffnamonitor.com
Four of the seven seats went to the party: its acting president C. V. K. Sivagnanam; acting general secretary M. A. Sumanthiran; parliamentary group leader and Batticaloa MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam, the lone representative of ITAK's eastern strength at the meeting; and Jaffna District parliamentarian Sivagnanam Sritharan, whose separate ...
