Former Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) parliamentarian Wasantha Samarasinghe alleged that Minister Tilak Marapana was simply the front for former Minister Ravi Karunanayake.

“Tilak Marapana is the visible Foreign Minister while Ravi Karunanayake is the invisible Foreign Minister,” the Voice Against Corruption Convenor said.

He said it the government’s latest trend to reinstate disgraced ministers yet again to ministerial positions and said it would be a matter of time before Ravi Karunanayake was assigned a new ministry.

“We see the trend here,” the former JVP parliamentarian said. “A minister resigns, then in a few days he is assigned a new ministry. That is what happened with Tilak Marapana,” he said.

“Marapana publicly resigned over the Avant Garde case but at the Cabinet reshuffle he was assigned the Development Assignments Ministry. Then Ravi Karunanayake resigns. Very soon he will be assigned a new ministry,” the former parliamentarian said.

He alleged that Tilak Marapana was just acting as a front for former Foreign Affairs Minister Ravi Karunanayake, “Tilak Marapana is the visible Foreign Minister, Ravi Karunanayake is the invisible Foreign Minister,” he said.