New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- Senior Journalist S Venkat Narayan said that former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe was not engaged in any corruption.

Narayan said that Wickremesinghe was arrested as a means for Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to show that he was a powerful person who was capable of doing it.

"I don't really think it is a conspiracy as such. But Anura Kumara Dissanayake who thinks that people in Sri Lanka have been fed up by the kind of corruption ruling families were indulging in, he wanted to show to the people that he is different and he does not tolerate corruption and all that. He is taking a lot of actions. And arresting Ranil Wickremesinghe is one of those things. But on Friday when the case comes u...