Sharmila challenges JVP over failure to tackle corruption within its own ranks at CMC

Former Colombo Municipal Council member Sharmila Gonawela recently said that the JVP owed an explanation regarding its failure to deal with six of its members of the CMC who had been named in an audit report that dealt with corruption in the allocation of vehicle parking areas.

- BY SHAMINDRA FERDINANDO

In spite of accusing all other political parties of corruption, waste, irregularities and mismanagement, the JVP hadn't taken action against those named in the Forensic audit report, Gonawela, who is on the reserved list of Sarvajana Balaya, at the May 06 local government election, told a gathering at Mihindusenpura, in Dematagoda.

Gonawela claimed that she not only sent that report to the then JVP MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake but personally brought the corrupt practices of the JVPers at the council.

The last Local Government poll was conducted on February 10, 2018. The SLPP won that election comfortably.

Referring to the recent threat by President Dissanayake to withhold funds from Local Government bodies that were won by other political parties, Gonawela challenged the JVP to explain its failure to deal with its own corrupt elements.