President Rajapaksa has said that former general secretary of the UNP, Tissa Attanayake who joined the government earlier this week is a ‘gentleman’ since his defection from the UNP was carried out courteously.
Addressing a meeting held in Narahenpita yesterday for SLFP-ers who were elected to local government institutions and provincial councils since 1991, President had said that when Attanayake expressed interest in joining the government, he asked him to immediately announce it through a press conference within the day.
“He refused and said he needed time. He joined us only after he duly handed his resignation and informed his party members of the decision he made and the reasons behind it. That is gentlemanly behavior. . . Tissa is not the type of person who eats hoppers in the night and stabs you in the back the next day,” he has stated.
The President had also said that throughout history, the SLFP has continuously been betrayed and that all its General Secretaries except for four have left the party.
“I did say this party is a like a saloon door but once you join us, it’s the end of the road. However, it must be noted that we will not collapse because some choose to leave and neither will we take pride in anyone joining us,” he had stated furthermore.
Amarasiri / December 13, 2014
Tissa Is A Gentleman: MR
Medamulana MaRa is a liar..He Bought Tissa for money.. Not everybody is for sale
Story of the modern Hitler…
View this highly creative and widely viewed video clip that has been released to the internet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IKHJG5ztL68
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len / December 14, 2014
Sri Lanka is blessed with turncoats and hypocrites some have moved on to Western countries but the attitude is still the same. Some boast about their superior intellect while driving taxis and working behind the supermarket checkout counters. Don’t have any thing good to say about the West but funny enough none of the pseudo intellectuals have no desire to go back to mother land.
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Lapatiya / December 13, 2014
Yes, Rs. 500 Million worth of Gentleman. The Person who said publicly that “we have files of those who defected the party but we don’t use them against them ape Hamuduruwane” is also a Gentleman.
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srilal / December 13, 2014
Tissa could do that because UNP leader , Ranil is a gentleman ! Tissa knows that nothing will happen to him soon after reveling the truth before Ranil or any one else , but is it same for the regime politicians ? imagine MY3 reveling the story before MR at Temple Trees ? MY3 is not that stupid , he wants to live and rescue the country , that is the simple answer.
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shankar / December 14, 2014
Srilal,you are rigt,if maithri had revealed it while eating hoppers then his sambol would have been poisoned.
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Seelawathi / December 14, 2014
This reminds me the story of parrots; good parrots lived with good ones will always have the good qualities while the others have to think of various agendas to survive. So called intellgence being mastered by GOtabaya failed to even detect before Rajitha and Sirisena planned to move out of the virulent coalition. As Ranawaka now opens people of birds of feather flock together and make every effort to attack the opposition, but they have no skilled persons to surveilaance the most important within th ebunch. This alone proves it is not the unique nature of Gotabaya paved the way to win the war against LTTERs but the time – and the weaknesses of the terrorist to that time MR started his office. Now taken full cake on his side, made every effrots to fool the nation- this is th reason why the bugger reamins to be the last to declare his assets before the weary nation.
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Amarasiri / December 13, 2014
Tissa, See this Video
Sprechen Sie Deutsch?’ Nein? See Video
Sprechen Sie Sinhala?’ Ya? See Video
#Cricket #sriLanka #MaRa #Election #India Story of the modern Hitler…creative and widely viewed video clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IKHJG5ztL68 …
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Tamil from the north / December 14, 2014
Absolutely Lapatiya, he will be a gentleman for Rs. 500MM. Give him a bit more and he will also become a guard dog for MR and he will go down on his feet and hands and pretend he is a real dog. These MR hoodlums have turned this country upside down. Disgusting!!!!!
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AVB / December 14, 2014
What a glass of Gal Arrack and lunch packet used to do with our Nandas &Mamas in villages in election times… We should surprise If our Uncles in cities would not act like this.
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Seelawathi / December 13, 2014
Once upon a time, this CESPIT MR named Sarath Fonseka as the worlst best General of Army. But now SF for MR has become the worst general. So this man MR has no idea about what he is talking about.
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Seelawathi / December 14, 2014
You may be right.
JHU revealed that Rajapakshes abuse tax payers funds for anything like making his administration a good one by hiring foreign companies. At the time, his uneducated TEA HANLDER man – Jaliya was as the Srilanken Ambassader, all the speeches were written by hiring a company. WHose funds have they been abusing this way ? We the lankens are not french or German to hire foreign companies to have the speeches written by companies. This country has a greater history having produced global figures like Jayantha Danapala and Dr. Ananda Guruges but today to fall to this level is all because of the deficiecies of MR administration.
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Kaanja Karuwadu / December 13, 2014
‘Tissa is a gentleman’. Is he really a gentle-? ‘Gentle’ to be ‘man’ipulated with Rs 500 million?
Mithiripala Sirisena gave up his SLFP General Secretary and Minister of Heath posts to become the Opposition Presidential candidate.
Tissa gave up only the General Secretary post of the UNP and in return gained the defunct Health Minister post in the government.
Ranil gave way to Mithiripala magnanimously. But did Mahinda pave the way for Tissa to contest Presidency?
Mahinda knows Tissa is a Pissa. After 8/1 Tissa might have to use his ministerial perks to admit himself in the well known Angoda or Mulleriyawa. He will not receive good reception from the patients there and will have to be protected in a secure area.
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Navin / December 13, 2014
Yes he is a gentleman. Mara offered Rs500 million and Shiranthi as bribe to cross over.
Tissa, the gentleman settled for Rs500mill only. No need for the other part as Tissa is an Athey Nayake.
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Snowden Edward Asange / December 14, 2014
LOL..@ Athey Nayake… nice PUN there… but isn’t Chandanee Bandara.. his athey sathe mistress both of whom were in London at the same time? wonder who paid for their trip for sexual pleasure outside SL…
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Marco Page / December 13, 2014
MR- Thats no surprise when you have “Gentleman” of the calibre of Sajin Vaas, Duminda, Mervyn etc paying homage to you.
TA must be a blessing even though it is allegedly cost you Rs 250,000 per TA aligned votes.
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Laughing Out / December 14, 2014
That hairy monkey in yellow looks the part for a Disney comic.
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Senthil / December 14, 2014
Tissa or anybody can use this opportunity and milk MR because this type of opportunity will not come all the time, but the voters have to keep it in mind that all this money is actually stolen from their daily meal – while the voters starve MR, Tissa etc. eat half chicken and throw the rest into the bin. There is no Tissa or MR if voters wake up. No point in blaming MR for the voters mistake – lets see what the voters do this time.
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K.A Sumanasekera / December 14, 2014
He was the only one there,,,….. Wasn’t He?…
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Native Vedda / December 14, 2014
K.A Sumanasekera
Gentleman politician ????, all politicians are crooks and all people are stupid including Vellala and Dalits.
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Roy / December 14, 2014
Mara Finally got his ponds he was looking for. He can seduce him with his Gorilla actions,,,,,,heeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…………….
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Saman / December 14, 2014
Tissa is a GENTLELESSMAN.
People are very fortunate….specially UNP members are very very fortunate because BONELESS tissa left our party….Now we are free from boneless man…He is the man who completely destroyed UNP. He is the man who completely created conflicts in UNP…
Thank God….Tissa left our party and joined with thugs, robbers and rapists.
Mr. Maithreepala joined with OUR GREAT HERO General Sarath Fonseka, Clean and pure Gentleman Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe, and Champika Ranawaka.
Good Luck….Mr. Maithreepala Sirisena.
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Navin / December 14, 2014
Ranil can deeply concentrate about that other snake in the grass – the delusional Sajith Premadasa.
I suggest take over Harin and build him up to replace Sajith in under two years.
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Pot Shot / December 14, 2014
By your appalling standards Mr. President Thissa is a gentleman. I agree.
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Gune / December 14, 2014
Can somebody send the President a plate of hoppers he has been crying over since Maithree crossed. For all I know even the hoppers he talks of is robbed money from us.
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Diogenes / December 14, 2014
Meaning of the word ‘gentleman` according to Mahinda Chinthanaya may be:”Rogue, thief, plunderer,komis-hitter, confidence trickster, liar. womanizer,embezzler, traitor, etc. Sure, Tissa can become a GREAT gentleman if the present govt. lasts long enough!
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shankar / December 14, 2014
Now mahinda wants to surround himself with gentlemen.He is sick of thugs,rapists and murderers it seems.
He also wants to get some return from the hoppers he gave maithri.He seems to be a real Indian Giver.How much does hoppers cost?Laxative?
Is tissa aheynayaka also going to become a used condom inside the saloon.
if he can’t bring in sajith through the saloon door then his use by date is up and used condom date begins.
Has he heard of the saying beware of greeks bearing gifts.
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dcn / December 14, 2014
Tissa a gentleman by deceit.
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Billa / December 14, 2014
Oh well, no matter what , nothing is going to change much if these jokers are given the mantle to ruin the nation. No matter who wins, Lanka is not going anywhere towards prosperity or peace, until the racism, division and discrimination is not completely eradicated. This country will never prosper with all the evil things going on for years. UNP, SLFP and all these racist elements in there, who play racial and religious politics are in the cesspit pool. There are no clean leaders with clear cut vision. Even some honest politicians have become corrupted over the years after associating with undesirable, greedy politicos.
Unless and until all the citizen are treated equally, with due respect and without any religious or race bias, this nation will not prosper, enjoy peace or get it’s old glory. Race and religion is the root cause of all the evil. Mahinda never wanted to do anything good for the country and so was RW and Chandrika. Even if Maithri wants, he cannot do any better under the circumstances due to the hard core elements he is keeping company with.
The only medicine is nothing but secularism. Will that ever happen ? !!
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Lalith / December 14, 2014
It must be rare to see gentlemen amongs your ranks although I am not sure if Tissa is one? When will the voting public wake up to chase this scoundrel out of Office? The other problem is that he will try to stay put by hook or by crook. Winning a war does not entitle him impose dictatorship on this country.
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modi / December 14, 2014
yes we saw he had coffee with god in thirupathi spending public funds.we don’t care if he had coffee with any one else . its Ranil or even with awamangala but he spent public money. who is going to pay those bills? to hire special plight ?from brankrapt air line?is it from his pocket? thats what we have all those problems.even he goes to no where spending public funds.and other puput D.M Jayarathna pm. whos pa issued letters to clear containers . what was inside? it was for buddhasasana ministry?
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Harry Hatton / December 14, 2014
It is clear that most of the comments here are from GENTLEMEN !
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Park / December 14, 2014
Tissa may be a gentleman. But in an election most important thing is the voter base. What is Tissa’s voter base 20,000. If Rajapakse is giving a senior ministerial position to some one with 20,000 voter base one can imagine how desperate Rajapakse is. Rajapakse has appointed Tissa forgetting all those who got more than 20,000 votes in SLFP. The question now is- Is Rajapakse a Gentleman?
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Senthil / December 14, 2014
The country is paralysed during MR rule. We cannot run before walk for that we need independent judiciary, reduce army to bare minimum , get land back from army and MR supporters, and the main thing is to proof that only talking racism and LTTE victory will not be workout anymore. So tamils, without talking about MOU for political solution, first remove MR and workout a solution from there. I am sure that any self thinking srilankan will understand that wasting money on big army for a tiny country is a waste of money for nothing. When our army did something constructively without the help of india or other country (ex JVP & LTTE struggle). No point in kidding ourselves by spending for army while people are staving. This election is only a small part in tamil’s struggle. We all know that the country will not prosper without political solution. Removing MR will help Singhalese and Tamils as well, so do that first. I think Mano Ganesan and few others are confusing people. I do not have any rights to comment about Muslims in the East.
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Sirimal / December 14, 2014
MR will not succeed fooling the nation this way.
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time”
Abraham Lincoln
P.S
There is something hidden with the assets declaration.
People have to get it sooner than later. This man as JHU revealed it, has taken commissions amounting over 500% to afford his sons and the family multi luxurious life as no other leader happened to do since independence. Victor Iwan to stay silent in this matter is more than questionable
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PARAGON / December 14, 2014
WE DO NOT KNOW WHETHER HE TISSA THE PISSA OR ANY BODY ELSE GOT BIG AMOUNTS AS STATED GIVEN TO THESE FELLOWS.HOW EVER IF RJAH-KING WIN THE THIRD TERM BY ANY CHANGE ALL THESE FELLOWS SHOULD BE READY TO PAY THE MONEY BACK OR THEY WIIL BE SENT TO JAIL BY ANY MEANS.
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