Rewarding
loyalty
Some Police Chiefs sure have a way of pleasing their loyal types
before they go on retirement. Then IGP T.E. Anandarajah wrote to
the Chairman of the National Police Commission that "Mr. K.D.H.P.
de Silva is due to retire on 09.12.2004 and his application is forwarded
for consideration of the Commission please.
"
The consideration is for a "promotion to the rank of Senior
Deputy Inspector General of Police."
Show
solidarity
The UNP's Parliamentay group this week met to review the
reasons for their set back at last month's elections and at the
end of the stormy session Prof. G.L.Peiris made an appeal that was
for the party MPs to show solidarity with former Minister S.B.Dissanayake
who has been told to appear in the Supreme Court on a contempt of
court charge. He wants the MPs be present in courts.
Not
to be forgotten
An all night "pirith" chanting was held at the
official residence of the Speaker at Sri Jayawardhanapura, Kotte
last Thursday. However there weren't many politicians present with
the Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse and UNP leader Ranil Wickremasinghe
being among the few who made an appearance. It was mainly the ruling
party members who stayed away. It might take more than one night
of "pirith" chanting to cool the ire of the government
politicos who feel they were unfairly deprived of electing a Speaker
of their choice.
No
ethics at all
The spillover from the Speaker's election continued well
into last week with it being the favourite topic for political discussion
on TV, radio and the newspapers. Many of the government members
accused the UNP for being behind all the trouble saying that the
party had shown no sadhacharaya by proposing one of its members
for the post of Speaker when they had been rejected by the people
at the general elections. If any of the politicians, irrespective
of which party they belong to, had any sadhacharaya in the first
place, they wouldn't have behaved the way they did in Parliament
on April 22 but would have settled their differences in a more civilised
manner. |
