{"id":149698,"date":"2015-08-26T22:07:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T16:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=149698"},"modified":"2015-09-04T15:37:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T10:07:36","slug":"cbk-forces-ranil-to-appoint-exam-cheat-to-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/cbk-forces-ranil-to-appoint-exam-cheat-to-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"CBK Forces Ranil To Appoint Exam Cheat To Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly appointed Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ranil+Wickremesinghe&amp;x=13&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/span><\/a> is reported to be in a moral dilemma over the current front-runner for the post of Minister of Constitutional Affairs and National Integration.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50069\" style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Jayampathy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50069\" class=\"wp-image-50069 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Jayampathy.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Jayampathy Wickremeratne PC\" width=\"134\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jayampathy Wickremeratne PC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The name that has floated to the top on the insistence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Chandrika+Kumaratunga&amp;x=8&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chandrika Kumaratunga<\/span><\/a> is a prominent lawyer with an unsavoury history. A long time Kumaratunga loyalist and therefore an obvious pawn of the ex President, this individual was caught cheating at exams while a student at the Science Faculty, University of Peradeniya. Having been sacked for this, he re-invented a career for himself as a lawyer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/left-fronts-jayampathy-wickremeratne-was-on-upfa-national-list\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He has now entered Parliament through the UNFGG National List<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wickremesinghe&#8217;s dilemma is that he cannot reject outright the request of Kumaratunga who openly backed the UNFGG (United National Front for Good Governance) led by the UNP (United National Party) and at the same time would have to consider the fallout of appointing a known cheat to this key portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Colombo Telegraph reliably learns that this individual is none other than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Jayampathy+Wickremeratne&amp;x=7&amp;y=1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jayampathy Wickramaratne<\/span><\/a>. Repeated attempts to obtain comments from both Wickramaratne and Wickremesinghe proved futile.<\/p>\n<p><em>Correction: Earlier versions of this article incorrectly said Dr Jayampathy entered Parliament through UPFA national list.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":149703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,6980,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-sri-lanka-parliamentary-elections-2015","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CBK Forces Ranil To Appoint Exam Cheat To Cabinet - 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