{"id":150040,"date":"2025-06-04T17:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T00:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=150040"},"modified":"2025-06-04T17:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T00:02:06","slug":"several-current-ministers-will-end-up-in-jail-under-future-government-chamara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/06\/04\/several-current-ministers-will-end-up-in-jail-under-future-government-chamara\/","title":{"rendered":"Several current Ministers will end up in jail under future Government: Chamara"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, June 4 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Parliament witnessed heated exchanges yesterday after MP Chamara Sampath Dassanayake alleged that several ministers in the current government would face jail time under a future opposition-led administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during the session, Dassanayake claimed that public funds had been grossly misused by some ministers and vowed that they would be held accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will make the Minister of Agriculture wear a jumper for spending over Rs. 100 million on a monkey census,\u201d he said.Minister Sunil Handunnetti will also face consequences for his involvement in the sugar scam. We will ensure justice is served.\u201d the MP said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dassanayake also took aim at Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe, accusing him of being involved in a fraudulent real estate transaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Samarasinghe is among the most corrupt in the current government. He is referred to as \u2018Deal Wasantha\u2019 by some protesters,\u201d Dassanayake claimed.A house valued at Rs. 500 million was allegedly purchased for just Rs. 5 million. These are not baseless accusations &#8211; I am quoting MP Ramanathan Archuna, who tabled a document in Parliament regarding this very scam.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accusations sparked a commotion in the House, prompting an immediate and defiant response from Minister Samarasinghe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I challenge the MP. Send me to jail if he can,\u201d the Minister declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, June 4 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Parliament witnessed heated exchanges yesterday after MP Chamara Sampath Dassanayake alleged that several ministers in the current government would face jail time under a future opposition-led administration. Speaking during the session, Dassanayake claimed that public funds had been grossly misused by some ministers and vowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}