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CBK blasts Ranil on Batalanda
By Shane Seneviratne in Kandy
President Chandrika Kumaratunga has said that if the Batalanda Commission recommendations related to the 1988-90 period were implemented properly, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe would not have been a free man today.

President Kumaratunga addressing women's organisation representatives at the President's House in Kandy said that in future, action would be taken to implement the law properly and corrupt persons, including 18 cabinet ministers, facing charges before the Bribery Commission would be firmly dealt with.

"Once our alliance is elected to office, I will ensure that the Bribery Commission is reactivated. If the present commission cannot function properly, I will appoint another commission and take action against these ministers," she vowed.

The President claimed that the UPFA had not given nomination to any one involved in killing or violence. At another meeting at President's House in Kandy with some 2,000 Muslims, the President apologised for the violence that took place at Pallethalawinna on the day of the last general elections. "Whoever was responsible for the incidents, it is wrong," she said.
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