Many government politicians and some officials are irked over a
Defence Ministry decision to deny them bodyguards from the army, a
privilege they enjoyed, though the war ended last May. They are
bitter over their security contingents being replaced by the police.
The unexpected move came in the wake of the withdrawal of security
given to former MPs in the immediate aftermath of the dissolution of
Parliament.
At
our expense?
Ministers Nimal Siripala de Silva and Dilan Perera, two
contestants in the parliamentry election fray in Badulla, share a
joke at the opening of a bus station in Mahiyangana recently.
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