Opposition hand behind polls violence
Lakshmi de Silva
JNP Leader Wimal Weerawansa yesterday revealed that NDF Presidential
candidate Sarath Fonseka and his campaign team are orchestrating
violence to attack their own meetings or supporters and blame the UPFA
and President Mahinda Rajapaksa for election related violence.
Weerawansa said they had information that there were a number of Army
deserters and retired Army men and other political elements who were
used to create incidents of violence so that Fonseka could say all these
illegal and criminal acts were committed by the supporters of President
Rajapaksa.
Weerawansa said they had information that Fonseka and his campaign
partners were fully aware that President Mahinda Rajapaksa would win the
January 26 presidential poll with a resounding majority.
Therefore, they were also planning to blame President Mahinda
Rajapaksa for the violence they themselves were creating to claim that
violence was used to win the election.
We also have information that Sarath Fonseka will be addressing
election rallies seated in his bullet proof vehicle alleging that his
life was in danger.
Answering questions Weerawansa said the last trump of Sarath Fonseka
is to deceive the voters was to deny that there was a pact with Tamil
National Alliance leader R. Sampanthan but anyone could guess that the
TNA, proxies of the LTTE would not support a former Army Commander who
defeated their leader Prabhakaran in the battlefield.
Evidently Sampanthan was not supporting Fonseka out of philanthropy
but was with a selfish motive of gaining some political advantage.
Probably Sampanthan wanted to take revenge on President Mahinda
Rajapaksa for defeating the LTTE and killing his boss Prabhakaran using
Sarath Fonseka to do it.
Answering a question about the alleged arms purchases from Sarath
Fonseka’s son-in-law’s company Weerawansa said though Fonseka could be
questioned or even arrested the Presidential Election time was a very
sensitive period and legal steps were being pursued but cautiously.
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