(Lanka-e-News- 12.Feb.2016, 11.00PM) The Attorney General’s (AG) department which held sway on lawlessness for a decade has now been adorned with a new AG who is reputed for greatly and meticulously respecting laws.This is an outcome of a fierce struggle launched to appoint an AG who would act with due deference to the sacrosanct laws. This AG is Senior additional Solicitor General Jayantha Jayasuriya who was sworn in before president Maithripala Sirisena as the country’s 29 th AG yasterday (vide photographs )
He successfully completed his GCE ord. and adv. Level exams at Maliyadeva College , Kurunegala and took oaths as a lawyer in 1982, and joined the AG’s department in 1983. For the last 33 years he had been serving in almost every important division of the AG’s department. He is noted for winning many important criminal cases across the Island , consequent upon which he had scored great success in getting the criminals duly punished.
Among the cases he appeared and won are : Royal park murder in which a young woman was the victim; the case against the OIC and police officers of Angulana police station involved in the murder of a civilian;Sadeepa Lakshan murder; and Chemmini mass murder . In addition Jayasuriya had appeared in international cases including the Ruwanda war crime case earning international fame.
The officers of the AG’s department told Lanka e news earlier on that they would support any contender for the post of new AG except Suhada Gamlath the infamous pro Rajapakse lackey, lickspittle and sycophant . A high rung officer of that group revealed that they are extremely delighted that Jayasuriya was appointed as the new AG. Accordingly , those within the AG’s department , the legal circles and the police department high ups are happy that Jayasuriya was appointed instead of the shameless servile lackey of the corrupt lawless Rajapakses.
Political analysts see this appointment as a decisive victory for the government of good governance.This appointment of an admirable law respecting AG instead of a despicable law disrespecting Suhada Gamlath the Rajapakse stooge is being reckoned as a greater victory than the chasing away of Mohan Peiris the chief justice better known as ‘cheat justice’ following the triumph of the Rainbow revolution on 8 th January , which is in the process of actively restoring law and order in the country .
The view of the political analysts stems from the putrid antecedence of Gamlath when it became very clear that if Suhada Gamlath the shameless lackey of the Rajapakses is made the AG , going by his despicable and deplorable official conduct of rescuing the criminals and rogues during the Rajapakse era , he would have surely withdrawn Dileepa Peiris the senior state counsel from Ekneliyagoda case which case Dileepa is currently conducting most diligently , efficiently and competently . Might we recall , it is after the media exposures of Gamlath’s clandestine moves to remove Dileepa , that the former slinked and reversed his decision. Mind you , it were Rajapakse group of crooks and criminals who agitated in favor of Gamlath for obvious reasons.
If Gamlath was appointed as AG by the government of good governance by some chance , he would have been the target of vicious unrelentng attack launched by all the civil movements , the genuine mass media society and pro good governance citizens that are actively and successfully promoting good governance . That is , if Gamlath was appointed ,the government would have certainly been pushed to a dangerous corner , for , it will be the Rajapakse villians and not the government that would be coming forward to protect the new AG. Besides the government will be stymied in its efforts to defend its new AG. The people will also come to the conclusion the government of good governance and the lawless corrupt Rajapkse regime are in the same boat. In such circumstances , the government itself would have been driven into a most desperate situation , meaning that it would be left with the only option, that is, turn offensive against its own State officer.
To Suhada Gamlath ,exploiting such a situation to undermine the present government would be the easiest task he had ever undertaken . All what he has to do as AG is, withdraw an on going trial in a case or abstain from filing action against a notorious rogue with the inevitable result : the people turning their spite against the government because they are unaware of the hidden conspiracy to plunge the government into unpopularity, despair and dismay.
History has proved a government that is plunged in difficulties and desperation cannot last long. Hence , the decision of the good governance government which is in its infancy not to appoint a villainous Rajapakse stooge like Gamlath as AG has to be deemed as a most crucial victory .
Of course , it is based on the conduct of the new AG Jayasuriya this victory of the good governance government can be made everlasting . The government too on the other hand must demonstrate its prowess by ensuring its success as a government of good governance by taking advantage of the salutary cordiality and proximity between the police and the courts that have resulted following the appointment of the new AG.The Civil organizations should also be vigilant so that the AG will not trespass on the laws , and works within the framework of established rules and regulations
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