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Prime Minister denies threatening media in Parliament speech
29 Jan, 2016
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today denied that he had threatened the media during a speech he made in Parliament yesterday.
Speaking in Parliament today the Prime Minister said that he has a right to name journalists and raise concerns over their actions like journalists name Parliamentarians in their articles.
The Prime Minister said that some journalists had complained that he had threatened them through his speech.
Speaking in Parliament yesterday, the Prime Minister named some journalists and media institutions and accused them of attempting to create communal disharmony.
The Prime Minister also named some newspapers and asked why they had not written against the incident near the Homagama Magistrates’ court this week where some monks had behaved in an unruly manner. (Colombo Gazette)
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