I have never slung mud at anybody -- Wimal speaks about youth who died in house

I have never slung mud at anybody -- Wimal speaks about youth who died in house

The incident which occured recently where a youth in MP Wimal Weeravansha's house had died having taken an overdose of a certain drug has already become a topic which is resonating in Political circles. As a result Wimal is being subjected to fun and frolic. He has made his comments in connection with the aforesaid death and the responses he has had to face by sharing his ideas with the last Sunday Lankadeepa newspaper.

Expressing his ideas to the newspaper he has mentioned that his son had finished his Advanced Level

and because he had brought his friends into the house to associate them he (Wimal) has got entangled in this incident. He further said that it is his political antagonists that throw allegations and that it is to him who has never slung mud at anybody that they do so. This is how he spoke about it:

* Didn't a young boy die in your house?

   It's a friend of my son. Even before that he had come to my place. There are at least three of our son's friends who are almost always in our home. My son's Advanced Level exams are also over. So son doesn't go out. The friends come home. As there are no problems when at home like that we also have given him freedom for that. It is a neighbouring boy who meets with death suddenly. Now since that incident happens in our home, our enemies have thought that this is a chance for them to use it as a trump card and derive babyish fun from it.

I can face anything. But the serious damage done by it is that the dead boy too is insulted in the process. In the same way my daughter ... these people are disgracing my daughter who is 16 years old. They are launching such an uncivilized operation.

* You have to anticipate those things because you also sling mud at everybody?

   You tell me an instance when I have thrown mud at somebody. I challenge you'll gentlemen to point at something which can be called mud. We don't need that rotten taste. We have political criticism. This is nothing else other than a reaction of people taking revenge ... incessantly in samsara, from the time I was with the JVP.

(Note of discussion -- Prasanna Sanjeewa Tennakoon)