Nose-Biting MP Is A Serial Basher
By Uvindu Kurukulasuriya
Dunesh Gankanda, the United National Party Member of Parliament from the Ratnapura district walked into the Museum Club at the Galle Face Hotel around 1.30 a.m. on Sunday with a friend Capt. Senaka De Silva, an aide to former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka. Present at the night club was a Tamil businessman Diwakaran entertaining a group of foreign clients. Senaka knew Diwakaran and walked up to his table to say ‘hello’ and then introduced Dunesh. Diwakaran invited both to join his table. Dunesh initially made small talk and then broached the topic of Raju Radha, ex-husband of Dunesh’s wife Kushani Nanayakkara. Kushani is the daughter of Capt. Nanayakkara and Mrs. Norma Nanayakkara of Green Lanka Shipping Ltd. and has two children from her marriage to Raju.
Raju Radha, the son of the famous Indian actor M. R. Radha, is the owner of HRC Shipping and other businesses. His sister Radhika is also a popular Indian actress. Their mother is Sri Lankan.
When Diwakaran said he knew Raju well as he was a relative – out of the blue, Dunesh lunged forward, bit Diwakaran’s nose and then disappeared into the crowd in the night club. Diwakaran was shocked and did not react at all. Bleeding profusely and in pain Diwakaran was rushed to the Gereral Hospital where doctors performed surgery on his nose. Later he got himself discharged from the General Hospital and admitted himself to the Nawaloka hospital where he underwent surgery that same evening for a second time. Later he made a police complaint.
Dunesh Gankanda who went into hiding to avoid arrest subsequently surrendered to the Kollupitiya Police on Monday through his lawyer. Later the Colombo Fort Magistrate released Gankanda, who was produced before the court on charges of assault, on bail.
Dunesh Gankanda has a history of violence when under the influence of alcohol. People who know Dunesh allege that he assaulted his aunt, a member of the Ministerial Security Division, one of his bodyguards, one maid servant, etc. He threatened to assault his seventeen-and-a-half-year-old step son two years ago and last month verbally assaulted his seventeen-and-a-half-year-old step daughter, resulting in a possible legal issue between the Radhas and the UNP MP.
A complaint was filed with the Police Women and Children’s Bureau for threatening physical abuse, verbal abuse and racial abuse on the under-age step son and step daughter in January 2010 at the JAIC Hilton. Again a verbal complaint was made to the Sri Lankan High Commissioner in Singapore Ferial Ashroff regarding verbal abuse and racial abuse on the underage step daughter on April 24, 2012 in Singapore.
This UNP lawmaker is not only a violent man, but a racist too. Talking with this columnist Dunesh’s step son Sooraj Radha said, “Uncle Dunseh is not fit for politics. I’m half Sinhala and half Tamil, he calls me ‘Demala’ (Tamil) He is a racist. He has never said sorry. He even abused my sister in ‘sudda Sinhala filth’. Once I asked him to apologize, and he said, ‘I’m not going to say sorry to a ‘demala’ …”
Talking to te media the acting Leader for the UNP John Amaratunge, the former Minister of Interior in charge of the Police currently in charge of the UNP says the ‘biting nose’ affair is a ‘private matter.’ How is it a private matter? Dunesh is a lawmaker and his behavior is not a private matter.
Of course there are lots of low level ‘Chandiyas’ in Sri Lanka’s ruling party too. No action has ever been taken against them. Opposition law makers are screaming about that, but when it comes to their own they say, “it is a private matter”.
uvindu@journalist.com
UNP should not give him nomination next time. He is a racist that is why he is with Sajith.
no he is not he is a royalist
This idiot should be brought to books and punish heavily . He is an uneducated man with no intelligence.People like that should not be in politics, they should be put behind bars and thrown the book away.
Please refer this guy for psychiatric treatment. John Amarathunge can arrange funding for medical bills through Sirikotha account.
He is a sociopath.
Read the article “Sociopath Next door”
will forward it to you if you need it kirtionebiz@gmail.com
There are many others in politics who needs the help of the psychiatrist
We need the report of the psychiatrist before they are allowed to contest in the parliamental election.
We do also need the Police clearance report as well.
I am a Tamil. Calling a Tamil ‘Deamla’ is ok. That is our ethnicity it is not racist. It is like calling a Sinhalese ‘Sinhalaya’. I always call them like that
shows that you are a uneducated low life
It depends on how you take it.Most of the time minorities take these things as insulting.(calling Asians “Paki” in UK considered as insulting even by Pakistanis).This man has to go to anger control lessons and surely he needs professional help.Otherwise he will harm somebody very gravely and will be in trouble too.
Then you too are a RACIAST! Because,we Sri Lankans should say I’M A SRI LANKAN!! If some one asks for the ETHNICITY, THEN YOU CAN SAY THAT “I’M BORN TO TAMIL PARENTS WHO ARE SRI LANKANS TOO”
If we have this mentality, WE CAN EASILY GET RID OF THIS RACIAST-EXTREMISTS ATTITUDES!!!
We should not be identified as Tamils nor as Sinhalese BUT as Sri Lankans.
Without tolerance the country is going to remain poor and for ever begging for money from IMF and Chinese & the Arabs.
Bala Ganesh, putting your two cents where its needed is also an immense form of stupidity.
This man shows signs of a psychopath. He needs treatment. I cannot believe the UNP is not taking any action against this man and saying it is a “private matter”. Abusing ones own step children, relatives, aides and the public in public places ain’t no private matter! So basically what the UNP says now is that their lawmakers could go out and abuse who ever they please, as these would be private matters? Sad state of affairs and shame on you Ranil W for turning a blind eye on these matters. D S Senanayake et al must be rolling in their graves for what this party has become of.
get rid of this rabid dog
UNP
john are you a low level chandiya too
WOW how nice, nose biting, those days we heard of real “Man Battles” where they challenged eadh other by fists, This must be the new trend then! Gosh what a disgrace our cabinet is run by thugs no wonder it is the biggest cabinet in the world we a thrid world country with the largest crooked cabinet, we have become jokers for the rest of the world.
So I am right when i say our country is ruled by Thugs, Crooks, Rapists Murderers child Molesters, Women Abusers, Drug Addicts, and Jesters too. – How nice no!.
Oh My My so John Amaratunge is in charge of the UNP could they have not found someone with better intergrity?. Did not this John persona make some trouble too at some stage he was involved with some colorful incident.. oh well all these Ministers, and MP’s they really are colorful they really are painting Sri Lanka in TARNISH!….
SRI LANKAN POLITICS IS SATURATED WITH IDIOTS AND UNEDUCATED MORONS – THAT IS OUR RECENT POLITICAL HISTORY. ALL PARTIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ROT AND THE IDIOTIC MASSES WHO VOTE THESE MORONS IN TO POWER ARE EQUALLY RESPONSIBLE.
Gankanda is a real Gonkanda
This will never happen overseas, only in third world under developed corrupt SL.
When will we have decent people as representatives of people? All the parties are guily of promoting sub humans like this man, criminals, rapists, killers, underworld kinpins, thugs, corrupt, bribary takers, people to tie other humans to trees etc etc. They want power to enhance their evil tendencies. Ex president CBK said 80% of MPs are crooks ( but she did not do any thing about it !!!). Lanka parliament is no place for educated, respectable, duty bound, uncorrupt, social service minded citizens. Confidence the people have in politiciens to do the right thing is almost zero. It is important for the UNP atleast to reverse this trend to have moral standards and not to hide by saying its a ‘private matter’. Surely we can not have cannibals too !!!
Shame on you.you are behaving worst then a animal.
Majority of Sinhalese have the Superiority complex, but in various degrees. If not for this fact, Sri Lanka would not have gone through the violent history. If the majority are not racist, how come they approve and keep quite while the minorities are killed, raped, robbed and tortured by the elected governments for so long?
So if a UNP MP murders somebody that too is a Private matter isn’t that so? As long as people like you are in UNP that party will never recover Mr. John.
Why people in Sri Lanka are biting each other. Tying people to trees . Is the country going backwards.
That’s the sri lankan style,,,,,,,,…..,.,.,., each and everything going through backward…,.,
This shows that UNP is not better than PA. Both are from same dirty mud!!
Hand him over to mervyn Silva please.
next time around do not bite his nose
you know what to bite dunesh
and dont let go MF
That means anybody in sri lanka can bite anybody in any place nd call it a private matter.Sri lanka is doomed b cos of these HOOLIGANS who come from the drains of Wanathemulla.
if children are verbally abused you can report to police, what is the purpose of publishing your life story in a national newspaper (and degrading your own children further) after someone else’s nose is bitten ?
…even the bitten nose has been hardly featured in this article,
wonder who is writing it and for whose public-relations stunt or mileage ?
If UNP doesnt take action against this kind of IDIOTS when UNP comes to power there wont be any difference with the present rowdy regime ( It will be the same movie with different actors ) . Sack him and dont give him nominations for the next elections……
I thought cannibalism did not exist anymore. This man sure needs psychiatric treatment. He is a threat to society.
most members in the parliament are a treat to the society.
Worse than Mervyn
This is exactly why people have written off UNP and is not ready to bring them into power. They know UNP is just the same.
It is high time a real alternative emerges in Sri Lanka politics and can you guess where that is coming from?
clean and curtail the top. start from all MPs, Ministers, LG ministeres,provincial council ministers….
For once the people should raise their voices agaisnt these unlawful men at the helm pf authority.
Clean politicians is the need of the hour. Curtail the number of ministers. Check the nomination lists of all parties….No more gangsters , no more drug dealers to the nomination lists…
RW, SAGITH, Take action against him otherwise do not complain about ruling party politicians.
This is cheap slander,,,,,, good for ‘lanka goonews’.
All over the world, parliamentarians are going berserk… only in Sri Lanka would they write a so-called ‘journalistic’ article about it.
go get a life, moron.
I am sad for the people of Ratnapura who chose to elect such lowly individuals to represent their vital interests.
Until the people of SriLanka realize their sacred responsibility when exercising their civic rights the country will continue in the doldrums.
Its ” fasion” to be racist these days, just look in Europe.
But honestly….i have been called forigner by Tamils ….Even i am breed and born in Sri Lanka and sinhalese , but we have some burger or europeans in the history tree, and my family have at least been here for 500 years
Perhaps he was suddenly overcome by hunger and got tired of waiting for short-eats ?