President inquires Roshan’s visit to Sajith’s office

By Anjula Maheeka

Colombo, Nov 28 (Daily Mirror) - President Ranil Wickremesinghe, during the Cabinet meeting, had reportedly questioned Minister Roshan Ranasinghe why the sports minister went to the office of the opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and Chief Opposition Whip Lakshman Kiriella and talked to the Indian High Commissioner to resolve the cricket crisis?

The President also had asked Mr. Ranasinghe why the majority of the people who had been proposed in the cabinet paper he submitted as the minister for the distribution of Mahaweli lands were his political friends and relatives.

Later the president handed over the letter to remove the Minister from his minister’s post, pointing out the breach of cabinet unity due to the minister’s failure to answer both of those questions, it is learnt