Udaya’s defection underscores need to change political culture - Champika
December 12, 2014, 12:00 pm
By Harischandra Gunaratna
The switching of allegiance by the party’s Deputy General Secretary Udaya Gammanpila to President Mahinda Rajapaksa would not affect the JHU at all, Jathika Hela Urumaya General Secretary Patali Champika Ranawaka said yesterday.
Ranawaka said, "Gammanpila’s defection and change of stance clearly demonstrated the urgent need to change the political culture in the country which was detrimental to the country and it is a system created by the Rajapaksas to feather their nests at the expense of others."
Addressing a news conference at the JHU headquarters at Battaramulla, the former Technology and Research Minister of the UPFA government said Gammanpila had agreed to conditions laid down in the MoU signed on December 1 and he was one of the main architects of drafting the proposals put forward to the President urging political and economic reforms, ratified at the JHU convention.................
