Sri Lanka PM clears ACMC Leader Rishad of false allegations
Intelligence reports on Easter Sunday bombings do not link ACMC Leader Rishad Bathiudeen to the bombings, said Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.more
โThis NCM rings really trueโ-ACMC
The allegations levelled in the JVP led No Confidence Motion (NCM) against the government are โon target.โ However, opinion of the Muslim MP collective needs to be respected said a top Sri Lankan Muslim leader on 11 July.more
No evidence on Rishad – Police
There is no evidence linking ACMC Leader to the April 21 bombing series. Rival political factions have been continuously making various allegations against ACMC Leader Rishad Bathiudeen (MP) linking him to Sri Lanka Easter Sunday Attacks.more
โRishad did not influence meโ-Army Commander
The Leader of ACMC Rishad Bathiudeen did not influence or ever forced the Commander of Sri Lanka Army to release any detained individual detained on suspicion to links with April 21 bombings.more
Rishad dares Wimal MP to prove or quit politics, Parliament
The Leader of ACMC issued an open challenge to an opposition MP who falsely accused him of being related by his family to a woman suicide bomber identified in April 21 Easter Sunday bombings.more
Rishad proves MP Weerawansaโs Parliamentary claims fabricated
The Leader of ACMC slammed an opposition MP in Parliament on June 18 for damaging and wild allegations made in the House, which falsely claimed that ACMC leader was related through his family to a woman suicide bomber identified in April 21 Easter Sunday bombings.more
Daily Mirror: Singling out of Rishad Bathiudeen as a political target
BY D.B.S. Jeyaraj The orchestrated political campaign by the Mahinda Rajapaksa-led opposition in association with sections of the Buddhist clergy and mainstream media against three prominent Muslim politicians has ostensibly succeeded. The said aim of the campaign was to secure the dismissal, resignation and/or arrest of two Provincial Governors andmore
Muslim leaders advance their call to global arena
In a new turn to Sri Lankaโs ongoing political imbroglio, local Muslim leaders who resigned from their Cabinet portfolios are now preparing to agitate across a wide array of local and international stakeholders. They will shortly be meeting the United Nations (UN) Resident Representative in Sri Lanka and also themore
“We will win”
The top rung of All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC), stepping in to the fray ย vowed that the No Confidence Motion (NCM) against their leader Rishad Bathiudeen will be defeated -and Minister Bathiudeen will emerge victorious.more
“DID NOT EXERT PRESSURE” – RISHAD
“..the accusation that I pressurised the Commander utterly false. I wish to ask this House and people of Sri Lanka -Is it wrong to inquire about another politicianโs missing family member if the family contacts you and ask you to help them to locate their missing person..?”more
Leader of All Ceylon Makkal Congress