MP Vasudeva Nanayakkara has taken strong exceptions to Rajapaksa’s instruction not to make any public statements over the bond issue, and also his absence in the parliamentary vote on the VAT amendment act yesterday (26).

The JO’s Dinesh Gunawardena was told by Rajapaksa to wait for him until he started a media briefing on the cancellation of the CSN’s license and the COPE reports into the CB bond issue.

Once he arrived at the parliamentary complex, Rajapaksa instructed that the government be allowed to settle the COPE matter by itself, and the JO should refrain from making any references to it.

When minister Mahinda Amaraweera inquired about it in the House, an emotional Nanayakkara has told him that he was disgusted by the ‘deal politics.’

Arjun Aloysius, Mahendran’s son-in-law, who is accused of having earned undue profits from the CB bond issue, is a close friend of MP Namal Rajapaksa.