Mangala Samaraweera lambasts false impeachment report

Ports and Aviation Services Minister Mangala Samaraweera in a media release yesterday castigated a news report in the Veerakesari newspaper of June 13 alleging that a conspiracy was in the offing under his leadership to bring in a motion of impeachment against President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.

He denied the report as a palpable falsehood uttered by an NGO dependent "Pra" Organisation leader who sold the head of each young man for a mere Rs. 25,000 during the reign of terror in the recent past.

The release said history is full of such power hungry leaders who betrayed their own conscience as well as the leadership for the sake of gaining political mileage and that this baseless false cry of a foul mouth will not be believed by anybody.

"We cannot for a moment consider the tolerance of another's view as a defeat. We are endeavouring hard to solve this crisis without harming the identity or the dignity of any of the constituent parties of the United People's Freedom Alliance.

The internal dialogue within the Alliance, if anybody perceives as a conspiracy against the President, that shows the political immaturity of such people.

In a democratic system we can only sympathise with such people," Samaraweera said in the release.