COLOMBO (Information 1st); Cupboard Spokesperson & Minister Bandula Gunawardena mentioned on Tuesday (8) that the President knowledgeable the Cupboard of Ministers that he obtained an intelligence report highlighting an try and reignite the occasions that befell on the ninth of Could 2022, citing the drought, and electrical energy, water points.
The Minister elaborated in the course of the weekly briefing to announce cupboard choices on Tuesday (8).
It was reported {that a} message was circulated by the President’s Media Division through WhatsApp on Monday (7) citing that there have been makes an attempt to recreate a folks’s battle citing the drought and frustrations of the farmers.
Minister Bandula Gunawardena mentioned that the President knowledgeable the Cupboard of Ministers that the Nationwide Intelligence Service obtained a report that sure teams concerned within the Aragalaya, and opposition had been planning to reignite the occasions that befell on the ninth of Could 2022, citing the drought, in addition to the electrical energy and water disaster.
“There was an try and encompass the non-public car of Agricuture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera. Particular safety was supplied to the residence of Energy and Power Minister Kanchana Wijesekera, as there was a plan to assault it,” he mentioned.
In accordance with the Minister, the President additionally knowledgeable the Cupboard of Ministers that two media establishments launched a media marketing campaign to prepare all these concerned teams, convey them to Colombo to prepare one other string of protests ranging from the farmers protest, and create a state of affairs the place photographs can be fired, and a number of other deaths can be reported.
“It was an try and destabilize the nation,” Gunawardena informed the reporters.
“If media establishments try to incite the folks and drive them to the streets by citing pure occasions just like the drought, which are past the management of the federal government, then because the Minister of Media, I’m dissatisfied. I enchantment to the media colleagues to take a look at this logically,” the Minister mentioned.
It’s also reported {that a} request can be made to type a Choose Committee in opposition to the media establishments that highlighted the farmers’ water disaster, and in reponse the Minister mentioned that the farmers subject was a regional subject in Udawalawa and it was to be solved with the electrical energy subject.
“There isn’t any subject when the media balances this analytically. If points may be solved by reigniting the Could ninth occasions by spreading violence to set hearth to the residences of ministers, then the nation ought to be capable of perform when all of the residences of ministers are set alight, proper? That will not occur,” he mentioned in the course of the weekly briefing to announce cupboard choices on Tuesday (8).
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