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| Gamini
Lokuge |
Sri Lanka cricket will go on the democratic lines once again, very soon, revealed Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge to the Sunday Times.The minister said the Sports Ministry is on its way to constructing a draft resolution in forming a Trust to Control the finances of the SLC. Once the trust is formed, all monetary matters pertaining to the richest sport in the island will go through this ministry controlled trust.
According inside sources SLC has lured in a lot of people because it had its doors open for many a lucrative deal such as TV rights, sponsorship rights for team and team clothing rights and the building of International Cricket Stadiums. He also added that once the leakages in these monetary deals are stopped, persons with the wrong interests may not be attracted to the higher echelons of the SLC.
The minister said, “At present we have made a draft of this trust and sent it to the SLC to seek their views on it. Once that is done we would send it to the AG’s department and formalize the resolution before presenting it to parliament, and no sooner this Trust is put into action, we will call for fresh elections at the SLC”.
It is also speculated that once the elections are called former Interim Committee Chairman Jayantha Dharmadasa backed by his team of former officials and former SLC President Mohan de Silva from the Thilanga Sumathipala camp would be two front runners.
On March 24, 2005, the then Sports Minister Jeevan Kumaranatunga dissolved the SLC as soon as former President Thilanga Sumathipala was re-elected for the third time on financial irregularities and appointed Jayantha Dharmadasa as the Interim Committee Chairman. |
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