The All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) has issued a press release refuting social media reports that the Co-ordinating Secretary of its leader Rishad Bathiudeen was taken into custody on April 30.
"ACMC denies that the arrested individual is part of Minister Bathiudeen’s staff," the party said in its statement while referring to the suspect who was apprehended with some detonators during a search in Mannar.
The release proceeded to note that the arrested suspect Mohamed Zanu was a former member who represented the ACMC in the Mantai West Pradeshiya Sabha. However, Zanus had voluntarily resigned is not affiliated with ACMC anymore, the party emphasised.
"The two officially appointed Coordinating Secretaries of Minister Bathiudeen at present are Jailabdeen Mohammed Naleem and Irshad Rahmathulla. They both attend to their duties regularly at the Ministry offices, Colombo 3 and not in Mannar," the release read.
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