If businessman Dudley Sirisena’s Araliya Hotel or the tank reserve is in the forest, he will remove it, says Agriculture, Irrigation and Lands Minister K.D. Lalkantha, and the government has nothing to remove.
Speaking to the media after a ceremony held at the Kandy District Secretariat today (29), he said that although Dudley Sirisena’s hotel is being challenged to be removed, the hotel is not on the edge of the tank.
Regarding the Araliya Hotel, which is alleged to be in the Parakrama Samudra tank reserve, he had previously stated that the hotel would have to be removed before it could be removed.
However, in a later statement, he had stated that only the hotel’s fence was relevant to the tank reserve.