Social Empowerment and Welfare Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayake today said that he was willing to be injected with the blood of the child whose parents are rumoured to have HIV and said that they already shared the same type of blood as evidenced by the colour after conducting a palette test.
Speaking to the media, the one time One Shot actor said, “I asked what blood group the boy belonged to and one of his relatives said it was red, which is great news because so is mine and, therefore, there is no concern in getting injected with the boys blood if they want me to challenge that he has been infected. I even shared a chocolate with the child to show solidarity although it was sugar-free so he threw up saying it was disgusting.”
However, the boy in question has asked that he not be infected with Minister Ramanayake’s blood in case he gets a strain of ‘media bravado’ that the actor has been suffering from.
“If there is anyone suffering from HIV in our Parliament they will not be shunned and I am happy to inject their blood as well as long as it is red. The problem is that most of the ministers have either blue or green blood. A few fellows anaemic also.” added the minister.