Courtesy The Daily Mirror

Colombo, August 13 (Daily Mirror) – Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe should be removed from the Cabinet for violating the collective responsibility of the Cabinet, Navin Dissanayake, a senior UNPer said today.

He said Minister Samarasinghe has actually challenged Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya by uttering about the SupremeSAT. The Minister should have discussed the matter within the government and presented his reservations on the Prime Minister’s comments rather than uttering things outside. The Cabinet has never acted the way the Ministers are behaving today. This must be the first time in Sri Lanka’s political history that a Cabinet Minister is challenging the Prime Minister,” he said.

My father, late Minister Gamini Dissaayake and late Minister Anandatissa de Alwis were against the move by the J.R. Jayewardene government to abolish the civic rights of late Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike back in 1980. They expressed their opposition on the move within the Cabinet. However, they did not utter things in public like what had taken place today,” he added.

Minister Samarasinghe should be removed from the Cabinet and one wonders whether President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is ready to do it,” he said.