I am prepared to come into politics --

I am prepared to come into politics --

'Nangiya' who goes behind Mahinda carrying files, speaks

The young girl, Ayesha Madhushani who was seen going behind former President Mahinda

Rajapaksa carrying a stack of files on the day that the UPFA memorandum was launched was a subject of discussion across the internet sometime back.

When inquiring further information about her it was heard that she is a 24 year old dance artiste. It was learned that she had come to Colombo from Dodangaslanda area in Kurunegala and had been conducting a dance troupe under the subject of Aesthetics and so was engaged in advanced studies. She had been able to attend Mahinda Rajapaksa's ceremony because of the temporary post she had got from the Event Management Institution who organised the festival. For that purpose a number of artistes had been employed and she too happens to be one of them.

Ayesha Madhushani who made a statement to the newspapers about this some days back said that she attended rallies of this sort even before this and that political partiality or any other thing was not attached for those things. Though she had gone behind former President carrying files she had not got the opportunity of talking to him. She records sadly that though she had seen former President but does not know him and that her home-town is Kurunegala and that as the former President happened to contest from Kurunegala she went behind him carrying files recently and after it was published, that mud was slung at her across the internet.

"It is wrong to sling mud at me. They should think that they too have sisters. Though those who could throw their power around tried to display it ... we can't no. I am called the 'nangi' who carries Alliance files. Actually until the morning that day what I was thinking was that I would get a chance of offering only a 'bulath hurulla' to the former President. But I had to distribute the memorandum to everybody that day.

* Did you get invitations for politics?

  Got ... got. Parties from various corners invited me to organise programmes to bring together young people. But I didn't have time to go for those.

* Do you have an objective of coming into politics?

  I have a purpose of coming into politics ... but not so soon. I should gain awareness and after gaining experience I hope to come once I finish my present work.

Article and photograph with previous article of Ayesha Madhushani, from BELOW