{"id":163972,"date":"2016-06-17T15:24:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T09:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=163972"},"modified":"2016-06-18T00:12:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T18:42:52","slug":"civil-society-wants-arjuna-mahendran-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/civil-society-wants-arjuna-mahendran-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Society Wants Arjuna Mahendran Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst mounting pressure on the government against the reappointment of Central Bank Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Arjuna+Mahendran&amp;x=15&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Arjuna Mahendran<\/span><\/a> for a second term, a group of 19 civil society representatives have also exerted pressure on both President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe requesting for Mahendran\u2019s removal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_163591\" style=\"width: 386px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/arjuna-mahendran-wants-all-bond-issuance-data-deleted\/arjuna-20\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-163591\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163591\" class=\"size-full wp-image-163591\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Arjuna.gif\" alt=\"Arjuna Mahendran\" width=\"376\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-163591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arjuna Mahendran<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During a meeting at the Presidential Secretariat, the civil society representatives had cited how the Government came to power pledging good governance and transparency, all of which Mahendran as Governor of Central Bank has failed to deliver.<\/p>\n<p>After listening to the representatives, Sirisena had informed them that a final decision will be taken after he discusses the matter with Wickremesinghe, who was also present at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, good governance activist Chandra Jayaratne early this week questioned whether it made sense having a Central Bank Governor in the country who did not understand the people\u2019s grievances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMehandran wears a suit which is worth millions of rupees, can a person who wears such expensive suits, understand the common man\u2019s problems,\u201d Jayaratne asked during an event organized by the Anti-Corruption Front which called for Mahendran\u2019s removal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":163591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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