{"id":43907,"date":"2015-11-09T02:54:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T06:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=43907"},"modified":"2015-11-09T02:54:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T06:54:55","slug":"law-and-order-minister-marapana-pre-empts-sacking-from-cabinet-by-voluntarily-tendering-resignation-to-president-sirisena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=43907","title":{"rendered":"Law and Order Minister Marapana  Pre-empts  Sacking from Cabinet by \u201cVoluntarily\u201d Tendering Resignation to President Sirisena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Minister of Law and Order Thilak Marapana holding a press conference at his residence in the morning of Monday November 9th 2015,  announced that he was resigning  from his ministerial portfolio.  Marapana\u2019s announcement came even as his cabinet colleagues were at a special meeting to discuss the conduct of their fellow minister over the avant garde armoury affair.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the special cabinet meeting began  in the morning President Maithripala Sirisena  informed  Cabinet ministers  that he had received the resignation letter of  Law and Order and Prison Reforms Minister Tilak Marapana.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Tilak Marapana convened A special press conference   at his residence and announced his decision to resign from  ministerial office<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Former Attorney \u2013 General Marapana entered Parliament on the UNP National List and was appointed Minister of Law and Order and Prisons in the Sirisena \u2013Wickremesinghe Govt<\/p>\n<p>Minister Marapana  aroused controversy by stating  that the charges brought against Avant Garde  and its controversial chairman Nissanka Senadhipathi would be impossible to prove.<\/p>\n<p>In what appeared to be a blatant conflict of interest Tilak Marapana  who was the Lawyer for Avant Garde,  gave a clean chit to the private maritime security company  implicated in a defence corruption scandal involving tens of millions of dollars <\/p>\n<p>Because of the senior lawyer ministers  involvement with Avant Garde  the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe  had instructed  Marapana  to refrain from addressing the Avant Garde issue and determined that he could give no instructions to the Police with regard to the high profile case.<\/p>\n<p>It was anticipated that the cabinet meeting would arrive at a decision that minister Marapana should either \u201cvoluntarily\u201dresign or be removed from office<\/p>\n<p>It was against this backdrop that Tilak Marapana has  submitted his letter of resignation to President Sirisena and announced the decision at the press conference<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton43907\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D43907&amp;text=Law%20and%20Order%20Minister%20Marapana%20%20Pre-empts%20%20Sacking%20from%20Cabinet%20by%20%E2%80%9CVoluntarily%E2%80%9D%20Tendering%20Resignation%20to...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Law and Order Thilak Marapana holding a press conference at his residence in the morning of Monday November 9th 2015, announced that he was resigning from his ministerial portfolio. 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