{"id":163835,"date":"2016-06-13T22:08:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T16:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=163835"},"modified":"2016-06-13T22:08:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T16:38:46","slug":"kiriella-says-arjuna-mahendran-will-not-be-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/kiriella-says-arjuna-mahendran-will-not-be-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiriella Says Arjuna Mahendran Will Not Be Removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Government Minister on Monday declared that controversial Central Bank Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Arjuna+Mahendran&amp;x=8&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Arjuna Mahendran<\/span><\/a>, whose term will end this month, will not be replaced and he will continue to serve as the Governor for a second term.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_145233\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/reply-to-emil-van-der-poortens-allegations\/lakshman-kiriella-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-145233\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145233\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145233\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lakshman-Kiriella.png\" alt=\"Lakshman Kiriella - Minister \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lakshman-Kiriella.png 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lakshman-Kiriella-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-145233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakshman Kiriella &#8211; Minister<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Minister of University Education and Highways, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lakshman+Kiriella&amp;x=3&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lakshman Kiriella<\/span><\/a> told a news conference in Colombo, \u201cI am not responsible for his appointment, but I don\u2019t think he will be removed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that although there were various allegations thrown at Mahendran, none of them have been proved so far, hence there was no need to remove him from the current position of Governor.<\/p>\n<p>Both President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe are scheduled to meet next week to discuss the future of Mahendran, who is currently embroiled in several bond scams, among other allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a group calling themselves the Global Sri Lankan Forum is collecting signatures to send out an online petition to President Sirisena urging him not to re-appoint Mahendran as the Governor of Central Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Anti+Corruption+Front&amp;x=11&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Anti Corruption Front<\/span><\/a>, along with several other organisations have organised an event titled &#8216;Remove Arjuna Mahendran&#8217; on June 15 at the Public Library in Colombo. The speakers at the event include Ulapane Sumangala Thera, Sarath Wijesuriya, Chandra Jayaratne, Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri and Keerthi Tennakoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":146460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kiriella Says Arjuna Mahendran Will Not Be Removed - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/kiriella-says-arjuna-mahendran-will-not-be-removed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kiriella Says Arjuna Mahendran Will Not Be Removed - 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