The Hon. (Dr.) V.S. Radhakrishnan
Hon. (Dr.) V.S. Radhakrishnan clarified a reference in an Oral Question answer given on 05.08.2025 regarding President’s Fund scholarships after 2005. He stated that the 2006 scholarship entry referring to “V. Radhakrishnan” and his wife was wrongly associated with him in media reports, and that it referred to Perumalpillai Radhakrishnan, while he himself was then a Provincial Councillor and not an MP.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, this concerns a scholarship from the President’s Fund. In an Oral Question answered on 05.08.2025 by the Hon. Prime Minister to Hon. Ravindra B. of the NPP regarding funding through the President’s Fund to children of Ministers, MPs, former Presidents, relatives and friends after 2005, a list mentioned that in 2006 a foreign scholarship was given to Mrs. K. Radhakrishnan, wife of V. Radhakrishnan, then a National List MP.
¶ 02 False reports have spread on social media and digital media defaming me as a current MP. The “V. Radhakrishnan” referred to should be “Perumalpillai Radhakrishnan,” not Velusami Radhakrishnan. At that time, I was a Provincial Councillor, not a Member of Parliament. I place this on record before the House and the country.
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Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) V.S. Radhakrishnan. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 7 August 2025. No. 1755509552009433. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/24291