Erstwhile chums' fake wrestling

A surge in underworld activities has left the NPP government red-faced, but it has eclipsed all other issues that remain unsolved.

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Nobody is talking about the high prices of coconuts, rice and other essentials, and the unfulfilled campaign promises of the ruling coalition. Underworld killings have also distracted the public, the Opposition and the media from Budget 2025, its shortcomings, and the government's failure to bring the perpetrators of unsolved emblematic crimes to justice.

Television channels are devoting prime time to vivid narratives about the slain underworld figure, Ganemulle Sanjeewa, tracing his life from the zygote stage to the zipping bullet that felled him in the dock of a court recently. A statement made by Cabinet Spokesman and Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa about a high-profile financial crime has not received much attention.

Answering a question from a journalist at Tuesday's post-Cabinet media briefing, Minister Jayatissa said the government was trying to have former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran extradited to stand trial here over the 2015 Treasury bond scams.