Parliamentary Group Can Appoint a New UNP Leader – Thalatha
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The Island Home News Thursday 11th August, 2011 3 DEVELOPMENT FORTUNE SATURDAY JATHIKA MAHAJANA Draw No: 1316 JAYODA SUPIRI VASANA VASANA Date 05-08-2011 FORTUNE SAMPATHA JANA JAYA Main Draw SAMPATHA Date 20-07-2011 SAMPATHA GOVI SETHA SAMPATHA Date: 25-07-2011 Draw No: 147 Date: 24-07-2011 Cancer -Aquarius Date: 10-08-2011 Bonus No 35 Date: 25-07-2011 Date: 09-08 - 2011 Winning Nos: Draw No. 770 Draw No. 2241 Date 10-08-2011 Date:04-08-2011 Draw No.247 Draw No. 633 08-26-39-43 Draw No. 880 Draw No. 817 Draw No. 2430 Second Chance Winning Nos: Winning No: Lucky No. 05 Super No. 06 Super No.15 E- 57-49-06-44 D-32-35-42-70 Winning No: Zodiac symbol -Aries W-59-07-58-56 Winning Nos: Bonus No. 55 09-36-39-42 Winning Nos: 01-24-36-51 Ranwarama - Q A-7-3-0-8-4 U - 08-30-64-66 E-4-1-1-3-2-7 12-23-25-29 66-45-25-16 Jumbo census Parliamentary Group can appoint begins today sans experts, a new UNP leader – Thalatha conservationists By Ifham Nizam With majority of the experts and conservationists pulling out of the ! Street protests if Ranil does not quit – Madduma Bandara elephant census, scheduled to start today (11), some Wildlife UNP,Athukorale said. Department officials are deter- Ranjith Maddumabandara MP, said that BY ZACKI JABBAR mined not to give the correct num- since the current leader took over, the UNP The Sajith Pemadasa faction yesterday ber of tuskers in the country. had lost a record number of elections and claimed that the UNP parliamentary group The Island learns that some offi- that trend could be changed only if he can appoint a new leader, since the Working cials were instructed to show a stepped down. Committee was illegally constituted. high percentage of the tuskers, At the parliamentary group meeting held Thalatha Athukorale MP, addressing a after the census, so that some on Wednesday, all, including news conference in Colombo, said that the politicians could be given calves to Wickremesinghe loyalists, were unanimous UNP Working Committee was illegally con- fulfill their pledges made to vari- in their decision that Jayasuriya should stituted since appointments had been made ous temples prior to the elections. replace him, Madduma Bandara said adding prior to the six-member Advisory Council However, some Wildlife that when the leader was unable to answer being constituted. Department officials yesterday the questions posed and tried to leave the Asked if the Parliamentary Group, which assured that under no circum- meeting, no one got up to go with him. was not a decision making body in terms of stances would they allow tuskers to He, said that the next Working Committee the party Constitution, could appoint or be removed from the wilds. meeting, that has been fixed for August 18, remove office bearers, Athukorale said that An official said: “We would cannot take place because the body as whole since the Working Committee was illegally down play the number of tuskers was illegal and has been challenged in Court. constituted and the MPs had been elected by discovered following the census. The UNP’s performance in comparison to the people, they were entitled to decide on the Elephants are not only very sensi- the last General Election improved at the appointment of a new leader. tive animals but if tuskers are first round of the local government polls in Responding to allegations that they had removed in an ad hoc manner, we the expectation that Premadasa would lost direction by first nominating Premadasa are not going to have good bull ele- become leader. When that did not happen, for the post of leader and five months later phants.” the vote base dropped drastically at the sec- proposing Karu Jayasuriya instead, she said Conservationists said that the ond round of local elections held last month, that the compromise had to be made in the forthcoming census will not give a Madduma Bandara said. cause of party unity. true account of the number of ani- He said that if the latest attempt to oust Wickremesinghe was not agreeable to mals as most of the 15 parks select- Wickremesinghe did not prove successful, make way for Premadasa, so the next best ed for count are experiencing rain. choice was Jayasuriya, who was also a capa- they would take to the streets to bring about Thalatha Athukorale and Ranjith Madduma Bandara meet the press in Colombo yes- Thus, elephants will not visit water ble person, otherwise he would not have been a change. terday. (Pic Kamal Bogoda) holes etc. re-appointed Deputy Leader on rejoining the Meanwhile, Elephant Expert Jayantha Jayawardena says that he will not participate in the census because it is being conducted with ACTWU wants a different motive. He says Rs. 30 million spent on Tension at Sri J’pura University President to provide the census, will not yield any results or data that can be used for more buses conservation planning. over Mahapola payments by Don Asoka Wijewardena by Dasun Edirisinghe against the delay of the Mahapola pay- they wanted him to resign. The All Ceylon Transport Workers’ ‘Racketeers in the guise of cops’ A tense situation prevailed at the ments for first year students. The VC “There is lack of welfare facilities Union (ACTWU) has written to Sri Jayewardenepura University yes- had cancelled the scheduled event to too in the university and the universi- President Mahinda Rajapaksa request- Police Hq. denies terday morning as students surround- grant the payments yesterday too, ty administration always refuses to ing that 2,737 new buses be provided to ed the administration building according to the Students’ Council. discuss the problems with us,” the SLTB as promised. The ACTWU demanding a discussion with the Vice “We are demanding the Mahapola Knanissara thera said. has asked that the cops involved Chancellor. payments for eight months,” President He said that they will decide on necessary funds be They surrounded the Vice of the Students Council whether to go for a massive protest allocated through Chancellors office for five hours, but Kamburupitiye Knanissara thera told over the Vice Chancellor refusing to the 2012 budget. Apropos The Island story later dispersed as VC Dr. N. L. A. The Island. meet them yesterday. ACTWU ‘Racketeers in the guise of cops’ on Karunaratne was not in his office. He said that Vice Chancellor sup- VC Dr. N. L. A. Karunaratne was General Secretary page 3 of the July 23 issue, police Undergraduates were protesting pressed the students for years and not available for immediate comment. Sepala Liyanage headquarters said that police per- told The Island that sonnel hadn’t demanded money for on page 56, in the clearing land at Rajagiriya or St. ‘Mahinda Chinthanaya’, it was men- Andrew’s Home for the Aged. Victim was Sugath Dhammika tioned that the SLTB would be provid- Police headquarters said that a CAA fix cement ed with 5,000 buses. The President had private contractor had demanded not Dhammika Prasad not kept that promise, he said. Rs. 7,500 from St. Andrew’s Home for black marketeers Liyanage said that 18 buses were the aged as machinery and labour Apropos the story,on page 4 of been fixed for September 5 and By Lal Gunasekera given to the SLTB in 2005, 960 in 2006, charges. the The Island’s August 9 issue, Coroner’s on Sept 13. The Labour 766 in 2007, 219 in 2008, 199 in 2009 and titled ‘Employee crushed by crane, Department is conducting an inves- The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) on Rs.5 mn demanded as compensa- tigation, while the Colombo Wednesday carried out 23 raids targeting those 100 in 2011 making a total of only 2,263 tion’, a spokesperson for the Dockyard is also conducting an selling cement over and above the controlled buses. As promised in the Mahinda Colombo Dockyard said that the inquiry into the incident. price. The CAA seized 245 bags of cement. Chinthanaya another 2.737 buses were victim was Wickremaratchige Managing Director/CEO of Minister of Cooperatives and Internal Trade needed for the SLTB, he said. Johnston Fernando told The Island that on the Sugath Dhammika from Negombo Colombo Dockyard Mangala Yapa Liyanage said that the President previous day, the CAA had seized a consignment and not Dhammika Prasad. denied receiving a letter three years of 557 bags of cement after a private trader was had promised to give 5,000 buses with- Dhammika died at the National back from Labour Department fol- caught changing the price tag. in 3 years, but it had not materialized Hospital of injuries sustained on lowing a similar accident that was The minister said that he had issued instruc- though six years had passed. The August 4. His funeral took place on allegedly caused due to insufficient tions to the CAA to target those seeking profits ACTWU expects to get new buses August 7. space between the crane track and at the expense of consumers. The minister before the end of the President’s sec- The magisterial inquiry has railing. admitted that the ongoing cement shortage had ond term. been worsened by those hoarding stocks. A mobile service to issue NICs and EICs was held by SLFP women’s Society of Bopitiya. Dr. Viraj Peramuna inquires about some matter from an official (From S. K. J. Kurera – Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy Vice Admiral Somathilake Dissanayake yester- Pamunugama day declared open the naval filling station at Welisara.