Yesterday I saw on TV, a protest against the opening of a liquor store. The participants included a minister Dinesh Gunewardena, newly appointed western province minister Udaya Gammanpila and JVP MP Sunil Hundunneththi. MP Handunneththi accused that this is against the “Mahinda Chinthanaya” and “Mathata Thitha”. I could understand the participation of the opposition MP, but I found the participation of ministers in this protest as a joke, that’s right, a political joke. They could directly speak to the authorities, or even the president, especially since anyone could get a discussion with the president quite easily and these days it’s the president who issues directives on everything. They could have presented the same facts they presented to the media at the protest, to the president and got the liquor license cancelled. But they didn’t do that. Instead they made political clowns of themselves.
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