Conspirators should be brought before law -Minister De Silva

Irangika RANGE and Sandasen MARASINGHE

Leader of the House, Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva yesterday said nobody even a presidential candidate can escape from law after breaking military law or election law and all the political conspirators should be brought before the law following an investigation.

The Minister made this observation yesterday at the Parliament at the debate to extend the emergency regulations by another one month. Referring to the speeches by the opposition he said those members made it an opportunity to devalue the remarkable victory gained by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

He also stated that the people of this country had given a political slap to the Opposition including TNA, Mano Ganeshan and Rauff Hakeem and now it is the time for all to ponder on where had they made the mistake.

He said that even Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe had accepted the election to be free and fair and those who claim otherwise can go before the Court. But none of them had taken any proper action and if they were to go before Courts the government would cite Ranil Wickramesinghe as the main witness.

He also stated that President Rajapaksa achieved the victory at the election and the losers were the traitorous national and foreign forces and unholy alliances and requested everyone to join hands with the government led by President Rajapaksa without being misled by the unholy alliances.