Shanakiyan holds Public Security Minister accountable for #Rambukkana Shooting; Demands immediate resignation

by Zulfick Farzan 20-04-2022 | 5:57 PM

COLOMBO (News 1st); TNA Parliamentarian Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam has held the newly-appointed Public Security Minister Prasanna Ranatunga responsible for the killing of a protestor in Rambukkana on Tuesday (19).

"Minister Prasanna Ranatunga is someone I personally have liking on. However, you must resign immediately. A young man was killed within 48 hours of your appointment," said the MP while demanding the resignation of the Minister and the entire Cabinet of Ministers.

However, Minister Ranatunga response "He says that I have to resign when a person is killed. However, I must state that if such action was not taken more than three hundred people would have died if that (fuel bowser) was set on fire."

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