Vasudeva tells Wijayadasa Rajapakshe:

Correct newspaper Ad

The firm of Lawyers of the UPFA candidate for Ratnapura District Vasudeva Nanayakkara has written to Colombo District UNP candidate Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, PC to get a correction to the newspaper advertisement claiming Rajapakshe was responsible for regaining for the State, the Lanka Marine Services Limited (LMSL) port land and the Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation.

The LMLS Port land and the Sri Lanka insurance privatization was annulled by the Supreme Court on hearing two fundamental rights petitions by Vasudeva Nanayakkara.

"You are well and truly aware, that it is our client who filed the petitions in the above-named two Fundamental Rights Applications ... and successfully obtained judgments from the Supreme Court annulling these two privatizations as illegal and fraudulent, and vesting these properties in the State."

"You, as COPE Chairman was a Respondent in the above two FR Applications, but failed and neglected to appear to support our client's applications, to obtain such properties to the State. Hence, how you could make the aforesaid claim is simply preposterous, it being false and baseless," the lawyer stated in their letter to Rajapaksa.

But Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa's advertisement has claimed that it was due to his efforts these two privatized public ventures were vested with the State. "Our client requires you to promptly publish a correction to the misleading statements you have made to the public, by publishing the truth and correct facts," the letter states.