Dullas complains of political witch-hunt

MP Dullas Alahpperuma has, in a letter to Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, said the government has turned hostile towards him and the Parliamentarians who supported him at the Presidential election in Parliament recently. Alahapperuma says the government has not reappointed the MPs supportive of him to the parliamentary committees.

According to Alahapperuma, when appointments were made to committees after the commencement of the new parliamentary session, the MPs who had worked tirelessly to expose, through the parliamentary watchdog committees, wrongdoing on the part of state institutions and officials, had been left out.

“I have been removed from the Steering Committee and the Committee on Public Accounts, which I served continuously for decades.

SLPP Party President Prof. G.L Peiris, an internationally-acclaimed intellectual and who seconded my nomination for the Presidency, has been removed from the same committee. MP Dilan Perera and Head of my Election Operations Committee Dr. Nalaka Goadewa, have been removed from the Accounts Committee.”

Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprise (COPE) Professor Charitha Herath, and MP Gunapala Rathnasekara are to be removed from their posts because they are supportive of him, Alahapperuma has said. He has said the government has launched a witch-hunt against its rivals while President Ranil Wickremesinghe is purportedly trying to form an all-party government.