Minister of Environment Champika Ranawaka of Sri Lanka
Minister Ranawaka is an Electrical Engineer by profession and passed out from Moratuwa University.
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We Sri Lankans are a tolerant people who allow wide latitude for the silliness of our politicians.
For a long time Minister Ranawaka has reportedly made statements that have outraged our Muslims - perhaps he has outraged the Sinhalese just as much - but he now claims that he never made any statements against the Muslim community.
Ranawaka is not an elected representatve in sl parliament.
Patali Champika Ranawaka is usually a cautious speaker.
Champika Ranawaka marries Wimal Weerawansa.
In the past, Ranawaka has also expressed anti-Semitic statements comparing Tamils to the Jews and ahs been advocate of Aryan Sinhalese supremacy.
The Minister Champika Ranawaka said that JHU opposes the present Provincial Council system and wishes to introduce Gram-raj system in the country to decentralize and devolve the power and administration to the grassroots level.
Narayanan’s recent remark, Minister Champika Ranawaka said Narayanan has failed to read the new paradigm and the paradigm shift that happened in 2005.
Sri Lanka with a view to meet environmental goals in the next 25 years.
Ranawaka is most secure within the corridors of power and portals of government and he has not been asked to explain himself.
Environment Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said yesterday that Sri Lanka aimed to create a fund of credits from projects including organic farming within three months, as it hopes to rake in billions of dollars in revenue over the next decade.
so we bundle our projects and are there to bargain as a country to have our own share from that carbon-trading process,†Ranawaka said in an interview as part of the Reuters Energy Summit.
Ranawaka said the government aimed to start selling carbon credits within three months once the island’s cabinet has approved the plan.
Minister of Environment & Natural Resources Patali Champika Ranawaka was the chief guest.
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Minister Ranawaka said that the time has come for Sri Lanka to address the imminent dangers of global warming regardless of colour, race, religion or political affiliation.
mechanism to utilize the money that is available is deplorable.
The Chairman of the organization Mujiber Rahuman said to Lanka-e-New that Minister Ranawaka had said that the Muslims are aliens of this country who should be grateful to the kings who granted them land.
What Champika had supposedly said with regards to Muslims:In Hard Talk column of Daily Mirror of October 16th, Minister Ranawaka had said the Muslims are here because our kings let them trade here and the Tamils because they were allowed to take refuge when the Moguls were invading them in India.
COLOMBO: Environment and Natural Resources Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said he would take further steps to minimize human - elephant conflicts and to promote co-existence between elephants and humans under the Gaja Mituro programme in 2009.
In Hard Talk column of Daily Mirror of October 16th, Minister Ranawaka had said the Muslims are here because our kings let them trade here and the Tamils because they were allowed to take refuge when the Moguls were invading them in India.
Expanding somewhat on his interpretation of an unbridled right to free speech, the minister for Environment and Natural Resources Champika Ranawaka was quoted as saying: Dr de Silva has the right to express anything he likes since this is a free country.
Surely minister Ranawaka knows that those guilty of criminal defamation could end up behind bars for exercising, according to his interpretation of freedom of speech, that very freedom.
Champika Ranawaka is wrong when he invests democracy with the absolute right to free speech.
Ranawaka said the Sinhala language is older than Indian languages with a history of more than 3,000 years.
Ranawaka said that some Sinhala FM channels were destroying Sinhala and English languages like in the United States mixing English and Spanish thus destroying both languages.
Ranawaka said that the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has launched a number of programmes to protect biodiversity.
Minister Ranawaka had earlier said that the Muslims are here because our kings let them trade here and the Tamils because they were allowed to take refuge when the Moguls were invading them in India.
We note that Champika Ranawaka has himself as well through his political party named dozens of prominent human rights and media rights activists, journalists and civil society leaders as terrorists on many occasions in the past.