(Lanka-e-News -06.Aug.2016, 3.30PM) The right to information bill which was most earnestly anticipated by the pro good governance masses will come into effect from today. The signature of the speaker Deshamanya Karu Jayasuriya which is necessary to give it the legal clout will be placed by him this morning.
According to the enactment, requests for information can be made by the public from today , though providing information will begin six months from today. This is because the mass media ministry needs six months time to appoint the commission in that regard, and its information officers .
Based on the enactment the public can secure information pertaining to State ministries, State Corporations , State departments , provincial council Institutions, NGOs, private Universities, Higher education Institutions and courts ( subject to limits) .These information have to be made available to the public. Information relating to national security , international trade agreements, banks including financial operations are of course subject to limits.
Turncoat turned Information Director Dr. Ranga Kalansuriya at a media briefing today had this story.
It is only in India the people took to the streets to win the right to information, whereas in our country that was not the people’s demand . In our country there are so many things the public secured without requesting , and this right is one among them , Kalansuriya pointed out.
It is well to recall ,Kalansuriya who obtained a Ph. D. from Kanyaratne of the Jayawardenapura University never was with the Rainbow revolution , and not even in its vicinity during the struggles . Turncoat Kalansuriya who was always a hanger-on of the Rajapakses lying in wait with open salivating mouth to grab the crumbs falling from their sumptuous meals tables , at the final stages fled the country and spent his time in hiding like a guilty culprit . He was one who never spat even once against the corrupt and criminal Rajapakses. Even when he had the ability to help those engaged in the Rainbow revolution and its activists he never lifted as much as a finger to support them.
Karu Jayasuriya tabled a private motion bill regarding right to information when UNP was in the opposition solely because of the requests made by the pro good governance masses.
At that time the Rajapakse regime threw away that draft bill most disdainfully . The alternative media including Lanka e News opposing this gave publicity in this regard and built the public opinion in favor of the bill. Thereafter , this struggle was in the main among the campaigns aimed at chasing out of the corrupt , lawless and brutal Rajapakse regime. Indeed,countless editorials were written on the right to information bill.
This Dr.Ranga alias ‘Renegade’ said , requests were made by the civil organizations and the political parties , and this was not a request of the public. It is a pity this Dr. DE Boor thinks ,civil organizations and political parties are not representing the people but aliens from another planet. By his stupid utterance he has only betrayed his gross and abysmal ignorance. He is assuming only people campaigning on the streets before TV cameras are engaged in struggles .
Since the day Ranga the renegade stooped to political manipulations and machinations to become information Director he had been displaying his imbecility and idiocy by trying to make stupid comments on what he does not know. It is an old adage , ‘any fool is thought wise until he/she opens his/her mouth.’ It is unfortunate poor Ranga is seemingly ignorant of that simple old saying too – that is why he is unable to keep his mouth shut to hide its stench and his foolhardiness .
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