 |
| Vasudeva- a lapdog? |
Hon.
Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara in this House is saying that ‘ we have told the
judiciary to go to hell’. We won’t allow you to do that. We won’t allow you to
do that. That is a sure way of sending this country down the slope and that is
what you are doing. We will not allow you to do that. This country is a country
that has democratic institutions. There must be Rule of Law. If there is to be
Rule of Law there must be an independent judiciary. We can’t allow you to send
the judiciary to hell. Who are you? I am a citizen of this country. I am
entitled to say that this country must have every democratic institution.
Who
are you to say ‘Send the judiciary to hell?’ You are the conspirator against
the country’s interests. If you say ‘Send the judiciary to hell’ you are the
one conspiring against this country; against this government. That must be what
you must be trying to do. Because you announce to the country that you will
vote against this.
Two days ago you got scared that your Ministry will be taken
away from you and therefore you have changed your stance.
This is exactly what
you did for the Eighteenth amendment also. You said you don’t agree with it in
principle, but you will nevertheless vote. Some principled man this is. I feel
ashamed that I have ever appeared for you.
I’ll tell you one more thing. You
were one of my boyhood heroes. You were one of my boyhood heroes of this
country. You can ask my family. Each time you came to my chambers, I was proud.
I told my children, ‘This is a man I respect. I count it an honour to appear
for this man.’ I told my children that. Today I have to take those words back.
Because of your shameful conduct. Because of your shameful conduct. All for
just a ministry post. For just a ministry post you have turned the tables on
all the hallowed principles which you were saying you abided by for all these
years.
Why did you do this in the last few years of your life? Why did you do
this in the last few years of your life?
Excerpt form the Speech made in Parliament on 10th January 2013 by MA SUMANTHIRAN M.P. during the
debate on Impeachment of the Chief Justice
