Fonseka-Sampanthan deal real

Lakshmi DE SILVA

This country has a long history of secret political pacts that were always denied by the parties who signed them. But they had later admitted the pacts beginning with the Dudley-Chelvanayakam pact of 1966. Similarly though Sarath Fonseka and Sampanthan deny there was a pact between them they are not allied because of their good looks or any personal reason but with the objective of dividing the country on the same lines of the LTTE, Environmental Affairs and Natural Resources Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said yesterday.

The Dudley Chelvanayakam pact though denied earlier was admitted later in a biography of Chelvanayakam written by A.J. Wilson years later. Even J.R. Jayewardene signed a pact with the TULF leader Amirthalingam but when J.R got a five sixth majority in Parliament he asked Amirthalingam to get lost. The next was the Norway backed Ranil Wickremesinghe-Prabhakaran pact that he denied even to his Parliamentary group but came to light later as the ignoble CFA.

The latest one is among Ranil Wickremesinghe-Sampanthan-Fonseka. Now Sampanthan in the North said there was a pact.

TNA Parliamentarians Thangesvari, Sivasakti Anandan and K. Sivajilingam said there was a pact between Fonseka and Sampanthan.

The others in the Fonseka alliance like Wickremesinghe, Mangala Samaraweera and Rauf Hakeem had said different things about it at different places. But there was an undeniable pact between Fonseka and Sampanthan that would become known to the country in the future, the Minister said.