(Lanka-e-News -05.Dec.2015, 11.30PM) Karunaratne Paranavithana the Ratnapura district M.P. a newcomer to parliament who polled only 47257 votes and was last in the UNP list , was appointed as deputy minister of parliamentary affairs and mass media last (04) forenoon by President Maithripala Sirisena before whom he was sworn in.
Paranavithana is possessed of long experience in the media sphere but as regards parliamentary affairs he is an ignoramus. It is the consensus , such an individual who entered parliament just three months ago being appointed as the deputy minister of Parliamentary affairs by good governance is a joke of the century .
While MPs like Buddhika Pathirana who entered parliament in 2010 and was at the top with the highest preferential votes in his district are languishing still as an M.P. , Paranavithana who came last in the preferential list being appointed as deputy minister cannot be justified under any circumstances, and is something the people cannot understand ,for it is being widely questioned what was the criterion applied to make such a choice?
Let us make it known that Karunaratne Paranavithana is an old friend of Lanka e news, and let us also make it clear this criticism is not leveled against him personally , but it is simply that the criterion applied is erroneous, and we are only highlighting that error.
No matter what , the actions taken by the government for and on behalf of good governance , are being unheeded by the state media , and highlighting them are not being paid attention to by it , while publishing distorted versions of news is also on the increase. A good case in point is : The finalization of the 9 independent commissions was something earnestly anticipated by the people of the rainbow revolution , and a great hope fuilfilled for them , however to the print media of the government ,that was not so much of an important news , but the song ‘sitha thadha karan’ of Wimal Weerawansa was of greater importance.
If at least Karunaratne Paranavithana the new deputy minister can rectify this situation , and show the right path to the State media whereby the efforts and enthusiasm of the people to make good governance triumph can be encouraged with the participation of the people which is most paramount in this context , certainly that would be most salutary .
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