Sri Lanka Rugby has now move in a phase where it will definitely be banned come October 19 if no election of office bearers takes place and the sport’s affairs not ruled under a new Constitution in keeping with World Rugby requirements.
World Rugby, which gave Sri Lanka more than a year’s elegance period from time to time to try to find out its affairs and internal squabbles, has given Sri Lanka the final warning in a letter addressed to the National Olympic Committee.
An election of office bearers was at last planned for September 9 and put off for October 8 which World Rugby has accepted as the final outcome and nothing beyond will be tolerated.
Two factions (Pavitra Fernando and Lasitha Gunaratne) are vying for control of Sri Lanka Rugby in what has turn out to be the worst scenario for rugby in the country which until two years ago was touted as the most gentlemanly of all sports associations in the country. Fernando’s team is said to have already secured the post of deputy president (Shanitha Fernando), the vice president’s post (Chintaka Perera) and the secretary’s post (Subash Jayatilleke).
In the meantime the last elected head of Sri Lanka Rugby Rizly Illyas moved out, the administration of rugby has been in the doldrums with court case after court case preventing the formation of a new Constitution and the much needed election of office-bearers.
Approximately two years Sri Lanka Rugby in the absence of an election of office bearers was brought under what was called a government Competent Authority that was abolished and rugby administration now in the hands of what is called a Working Task Force.
Bureaucracy has also set in with the government officials also creeping in to influence the next set of office-bearers to run rugby.
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