Irony strikes Ranil as he was remanded in prison standing on his ancestral land -Wajira

United National Party (UNP) Chairman Wajira Abeywardena said that the 43-acre land on which the Welikada Prison now stands once belonged to the ancestral family of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe.

- By KELUM BANDARA

Asserting that he is in possession of the extracts of the land to prove the point, Mr. Abeywardena said it was a twist of irony that Mr. Wickremesinghe was remanded in a cell housed in a building lying on one of his ancestral lands.

“It is sad that Mr. Wickremesinghe was remanded there,” he said.