Call to Withdraw “ASIA’S BEST FINANCE MINISTER” Award from Corrupted Ravi Karunanayakem

The massive call is being generated to withdraw the controversial award given by London-based magazine “The Banker” for the infamous and widely believed as pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists and corrupted Sri Lankan Finance Minister Ravidran Karunanayakem,   as the “Best Finance Minister in the Asia-Pacific region for the year 2016”.

The 90-year-old magazine, which annually evaluates over 5,000 banks, honoured pro-minority and federalist Karunanayakem who disguised his name in to Sinhala to gain cheap political advantage for his efforts to steer Sri Lanka into a new era of economic reform and a change of mindset. The Karunayakem appointed as Finance Minister in January 2015 and in 2016 he received this controversial award for his so called achievement for his efforts to steer Sri Lanka into a new era of economic reform and a change of mindset which is highly questionable that he achieved this within this short time span.

Number of people has written to “The Banker” magazine questioning the credibility of 90 years old publication. Melbourne based Mr. Ranjith Soysa has written to the Editor of the magazine as follows;

Dear Editors

Your magazine named Ravi Karunanayke who was the Finance Minister of Sri

Lanka as the BEST FINANCE MINISTER IN ASIA. Your credibility has to be questioned as we doubt very much that your decision was NOT based on facts but due to some other reasons. What were his achievements or outstanding contributions to Sri Lanka when your selection was made?

He was facing two alleged criminal charges against him when he was appointed and it was in the public domain. Finally , he was compelled to resign in disgrace.

Please let us know why you decided make  him to be the best finance Minister in Asia and whether you will publish anapology for this act of misleading the readers,  in your prestigious magazine,

Regds

Ranjith Soysa
A recent article appeared in a national newspaper about infamous Foreign Minister Ravindran Karunanayakem is below:

MEN OF 2017 Facts speak for themselves, however hard they are suppressed

By Gomin Dayasri
(Courtesy of Daily Mirror)

Hilarious! Can you name the Magazine that featured Karunanayake as the best Finance Minister of the Year 2017?   

Damn the name in shame. In fairness, a title awarded to the Asia Pacific region for obtaining a loan of US 1.5 billion for Sri Lanka. Let them lament in hell on lost credibility among institutions associated with the rock of Gibraltar status for financial sturdiness.   

There are many journals’ that give coverage for a return of fortune – be on your marks, cover page ladies and gentlemen-don’t fall for cheap publicity in exchange of a fistful of benefits, to get a – made up, make up mug-look photogenic on a front cover.  

Deciding on the Men of the Year 2017 is an easier task as the names roll of the mouth without an ulcer. They are the only icons of Good Governance -The Three Commissioners appointed by President Sirisena on the Bond scam under the Commission of Inquiry Act are the relevant men. President Sirisena acquired acclaim in selecting three gentlemen that prefer to be unnamed and unheralded but brought glory to our land that many thought had no judges of competence, integrity and independence that required foreign judges to sit to determine events occurring in local conditions.  

The Supreme Court consisted of many good men and women at all times but few went to seed because in search of more benefits than legally entitled to, sought closer association with politicians and allowed themselves to be manipulated that brought ill-fame to the Judiciary that in the worst of times – was a shade better than other disgraced institutions.   

Now in its prime with an elegant team at the helm, the Supreme Court needs a captain smart, bold and brave, to lead them to the field.   

Sure will with time to come, as it has again peaked. Meanwhile, the creation of Yahapalanaya earns repute as it keeps a check on Yahapalanaya engaged in its many naughty ways-it must and should. Let us turn the pages of history to take a peep at the Special Commission of Inquiry Act under which Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike was deprived of her civic rights. Mind you the Commissioners appointed in the Bond inquiry were nominated under a distinctly different statute called the Commission of Inquiry Act like the Udalagama Commission that was appointed to inquire into War Crimes.   Special Commission of Inquiry Act too had its fangs eliminated as it too could make only recommendations, which became effective and binding on passing a motion giving effect to its recommendations by a majority in Parliament.  

Likewise the Parliament can do the needful in the bond inquiry too if the members deem the recommendations are sufficiently worthwhile. Your turn Attorney – General to advise the Government Nevertheless the Judiciary – then – consisted of bold men (Justices Wimalaratne, Vythialingam and Percy Colin-Thome] to issue a Writ of Prohibition nullifying the decision of the Special Commission of Inquiry that faulted Mrs. Bandaranaike, made the UNP Government present two bills in Parliament negating the judgment of a court of law, for the first time, in our legal history.  

Two Bills endorsed by the Cabinet as being ‘urgent in the national interest’ were rushed through Parliament.  

By the first Bill – the Special Presidential Commissions of Inquiry (Special Provisions) Act No. 4 of 1978 Parliament took the unprecedented step of specifically declaring null and void the judgment of the appellate courts in Mrs. Bandaranaike’s case. Section 10 of the Act stated:  

“Any such judgment, decree or writ issued by the Court including the judgment pronounced and writ issued by the Court of Appeal (“Interpolation–highest appellate court under 1972 constitution”) in Application No. 1/78 are hereby declared null and void and of no force or effect whatsoever.”  

The second Bill was the UNP Government’s First Amendment to their brand new Constitution. The amendment deprived the courts of its ‘jurisdiction in similar Writ Applications’.   

The amendment was made retroactive from September 7, 1978 preventing Mrs. Bandaranaike access to any court of law in matters consisting of her deprivation of civic rights.  

That made history in the times of J.R. Jayewardene and his brother Harry Jayewardene QC, when judges’ homes were attacked and their offices locked that made the great Chief Justice Neville Samarakoone rise up against the Executive to safeguard the Judiciary that appointed him to that position picking him from the insignificant bar table.   

So would Justices Chitrasiri and Prassanna Jayewardane be accorded a similar place in the judicial sphere if they reached correct conclusions in the bond scam without fear or favour acting within their jurisdiction, as the offenders, would raise it in courts as their last resort.  

A rule to remember is not to hit a man, who is down and out personally as he tries hard to rebound making him a heroic figure in the act of resignation. Such is possible, as in the case of Tilak Marapana, whose resignation became periodic, as he is restored to greater glory with the passage of time. Such are Parliamentary traditions to be deprecated. There is a way to resign and a time to do so. That revolves around, public perception dependent on the known surrounding circumstances of each individual case determined on an objective basis. Go man go-before thoughts of an eventual removal or the call for the resignation arises.   

Ravi Karunanayake was hopelessly belated, as he waited too long/late in the hope of a reprieve till he was booted out by hostile public opinion that left him with no alternative, but to resign. Facts speak for themselves, however hard they are suppressed.  

• The Three Commissioners appointed by President Sirisena on the Bond scam under the Commission of Inquiry Act are the relevant men.
• The Supreme Court consisted of many good men and women at all times but few went to seed because in search of more benefits than legally entitled to, sought closer association with politicians
• Now in its prime with an elegant team at the helm, the Supreme Court needs a captain smart, bold and brave, to lead them to the field.
• So would Justices Chitrasiri and Prassanna Jayewardane be accorded a similar place in the judicial sphere if they reach correct conclusions in the bond scam without fear or favour.
• A rule to remember is not to hit a man, who is down and out personally as he tries hard to rebound making him heroic figure in the act of resignation. Such is possible
• There is a way to resign and a time to resign. That revolves around, public perception dependent on the known surrounding circumstances of each individual case determined on an objective basis.
• Ravi Karunanayake was hopelessly belated, as he waited too long/late in the hope of a reprieve till he was booted out by hostile public opinion that left him with no alternative, but to resign.

There are many journals’ that give coverage for a return of fortune – be on your marks

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