Regrets Ranil's action in threatening the media - Mahinda
The former president Mahinda Rajapaksa has regretted the action of the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe for threatening the media
personnel in Parliament on the 29th instant.The former president had said this to the media personnel whom he had met when he visited the Presidential commission for Bribery and Corruption to furnish a statement in regard to the advertisements that had been telecast in the Independent Television Network without payments in the run up to the presidential election of the 08th January 2015.
He had said that "yahapalanaya" is not this. The Prime Minister to name the media institutions. the name of media personnel and threatening the media personnel is not correct the people and the new members of parliament would think.The Prime Minister knows well the traditions in parliament but what he made was creating a precedent.