Arrest Maheswaran's killers and clear my name, Douglas tells govt

EPDP leader and Traditional Industries Minister Douglas Devananda yesterday urged the government to expedite the legal process with regard to the assassination of former UNP MP T. Maheswaran and the recent abduction and killing of a school boy in Chavakachcheri.
Addressing Parliament, Jaffna District MP Devananda said that some Opposition members had repeatedly used Parliament as a platform to accuse him and his party of being involved in Maheswaran's assassination and the Chavakachcheri killings.
Denying any involvement in the incidents, MP Devananda said that the perpetrators of those incidents had gone scot free, while he was being targeted. "Those responsible should be exposed to the public without further delay," he said.
MP Devananda said that immediately after the shooting of MP Maheswaran, a member of the LTTE pistol group had been arrested.
Minister Devananda was responding to UNP MP Mrs. Vijayakala Maheshwaran, the wife of the late MP.
Minister Devananda urged Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa not to allow any parliamentarian to exploit parliamentary privilege to make unsubstantiated allegations against him or his party.
He strongly denied involvement in kidnapping and extortion.
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