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Ranil - Imtiaz brawl at UNP meet by Prasad Gunewardene UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Working Committee member, Imtiaz Bakeer Markar were engaged in a heated argument at Friday's Working Committee meeting with both hurling allegations at each other. The argument cantered on the VAT scam suspect Kamil Kuthubdeen's relationship with the UNP and Bakeer Markar sought ten minutes to explain his relationship with Kuthubdeen as a weekly newspaper had carried his photograph with the suspect. At this point Wickremesinghe had reportedly pointed out that there was no necessity to forward a clarification in this regard. But Markar said that Kuthubdeen was associated him from their university days and has even funded the UNP." Sir, you cannot deny that he did give money to you for party activities", Bakeer Markar recalled. Bakeer Markar charged that it was Wickremesinghe who got such things published in that weekly . An annoyed UNP leader had retorted by saying that he had no faith in such newspapers as those newspapers never worked for the benefit of any individual. Markar said he had led a clean life in politics and never contested elections since 2001. At this point, the Moragoda-Maharoof issue too surfaced and Ravi Karunanayake insisted that the two member report was still with Wickremesinghe. M. H. Mohamed interjected to ask why Wickremesinghe was not acting on it. Wickremesinghe asserted that he never got the report. But, Mohamed insisted that he (Wickremesinghe) had refused to accept the report. At this point, one of the two members of the committee, Milroy Perera who was present left the meeting. The UNP leader said the party was to go before the Supreme Court over the CMC nomination list rejection and he would act on the report after the court proceedings concluded. |
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