Attorney General v. Siriwardena

The member for Ududumbara in Parliament alleged and imputed that Karl Marx was a brief less lawyer, that he was penniless and went begging from house to house and that utilising the funds of such begging he was able to write "Das Capital". Karl Marx was also characterized as a frustrated person with grandiose dreams of imperialist dictatorial government in the name of socialism. The respondent who was the editor of the Aththa newspaper appeared to have resented the remarks concerning Karl Marx and he replied by means of an editorial in the Aththa newspaper of 11.10.1977 where he likened the Members of Parliament in general and the member for Ududumbara in particular to bulls and donkeys and thereby represented them to be of low intellect, lacking in intelligence and unfit to perform the tasks for which they were elected.