{"id":93013,"date":"2019-09-15T14:40:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T21:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93013"},"modified":"2019-09-15T14:43:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T21:43:53","slug":"premadasa-lalith-and-gamini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/09\/15\/premadasa-lalith-and-gamini\/","title":{"rendered":"Premadasa ,Lalith and Gamini"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

It was the time when Lalith and Gamini were bitter the\npresident JR for nominating Premadasa as the candidate and they were conspiring\nto form a new party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both left UNP and .planning to take over the helm <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One prominent land developer who was famous for illegal, landfilling was carrying out unauthorized development in Rajagiriya<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was the chairman of SLLRDC , at that time. My engineers objected to him for filling and building a bridge over the Canal. After he ignored the advice by engineers I personally visited the location to advise him not to do so, but his brother who was at the site threatened me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took action to complain to Borella police which planned to\narrest him and place behind bars <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spoke to a known judge (who is no more) and explained to\nhim about the incident <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that we should teach such people a lesson and guided me on how to proceed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Same day early morning I received the customary 4 am\ntelephone Call from the estate of the land developer where the President was\nvisiting <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was asked about the incident and received a very cordial\nadvise to get the developer down with the ASP and force the land developer to\napologise <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His words were this man is a supporter but take any\nrelevant action after apology and get the Ministry Secretary to intervene\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did so and the matter was closed after the developer was told to. build the bridge to the specification of the corporation\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the matter died down  I was subjected to\nindirect harassment by citing false allegation against me by him <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, another \u00a0developer who was later an Ambassador was filling land in Jaela and we objected\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was forced to get the design from the corporation for drainage and also to build a lake in the site<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was done to prevent filling with no proper drainage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corporation forced him to use the services of out in house engineers and the developer invited me to the inauguration of lake dredging\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without knowing his ulterior motive I visited the land, where the developer placed a garland around my neck and published a photo in the national papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that time a luxury Toyota car was missing from Mahawali\nPool and Premadasa deployed A DIG To hound both Gamini and Lalith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would have gone unnoticed, but to my unluck, the same developer was caught for having a car transferred illegally from \u00a0Mahaveli Ministry which was under Gamini who has already left the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first developer who filled land in Rajagiriya took a copy of the \u00a0 Newspaper cutting with the photo where I was garlanded by the second developer from Jaela claiming that the developer is a supporter of Gamini and I am also a supporter of Gamini! ( I have never even met \u00a0Gamini at that time )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first developer prepared a dossier with that information and included another false information claiming that I was a supporter of Lalith. He substantiated that claim by writing a petition that I was deploying a surveyor for land surveying of SLLRDC who is a friend of Lalith!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As expected Premadasa called me to the secretariat in the presence of the ministry secretary and treasury secretary where he placed the dossier in front of me and asked me for explanation\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both secretaries knew that I was above board and rescued me\nby defending me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, I was asked to send a letter closing the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first developer hanged a mammoth \u00a0banner in front of the corporation in Sinhala\u00a0 naw ( ships) Kaapu Lalith \u00a0and Mahaveli gilapy ( gulped )Gamini \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well I did not bother to remove them after the demise of Premadasa DB took over and Gamini came back to the party\u00a0Same developer hanged a Banner Ape\u2019 Gamini Weerayata Jaya Wewa\u201d\u00a0And now all three have died tragically and we live to see the mess this country is now in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the type of politics the leaders were playing <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera It was the time when Lalith and Gamini were bitter the president JR for nominating Premadasa as the candidate and they were conspiring to form a new party. Both left UNP and .planning to take over the helm  One prominent land developer who was famous for illegal, landfilling was carrying out unauthorized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93013","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=93013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}