Co-Cabinet spokesman Minister Rajitha Seneratne has categorically denied the front-page news article carried out by Lankadeepa yesterday (15), stating that he did not mention anything even remotely related to what was reported in the newspaper.
Lankadeepa had published an article on the front page with the heading, ‘Cabinet reshuffle- President decides to allocate Finance, Law and Order to the SLFP: Rajitha says’, quoting Minister Senaratne at the Cabinet decisions press briefing held yesterday at the Government Information Department.
Issuing a media release, Minister Senaratne claims that the article in question was incorrect and said that this was a serious fake news article.
The Minister further said that anyone can find the full video of yesterday’s Cabinet press briefing by visiting the Government Information Department website to alleviate any doubts with regard to what he had said.
He further requested Lankadeepa to issue a correction giving the same prominence it did to the fake news article.
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