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kings. My wife’s grandfather had over 30,000 acres of land in Balangoda. My grandparents, too, had properties equal to that. We both worked in courts and usually paid Rs 2.5 million a year as taxes on our income. I have Rs. 400 million in my account. We do not need to steal from others."
By his own measure, he is above board. But the yardstick was not his alone to use.
This Monday, Primary Industries Minister Daya Gamage told a group of fresh water prawn farmers in Chilaw that he too was clean and had no reason to rob the public. And, pray, why? Because, as he said, “former president Mahinda Rajapaksa invited me to join hands with him or to give up politics and join his business but I refused.”
“I had no intention to rob money