Did Karu send suicide bomber to Fonseka? ask UNP MP!

 

Sunday, 09 November 2014 

A definite decision on a common candidate that was about to be taken has become impossible after a meeting Democratic Party leader, former Army commander Sarath Fonseka, had with UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday (07), a UNP MP who is working day and night to see that a common candidate contests the presidential election, told ‘Lanka News Web.’

Around the middle of the week, the UNP leader gave his consent to a common candidate although very unwillingly, due to the intense pressure he was getting from every side, but after the meeting with Fonseka, he has returned to playing the old tune, said the MP.

At the discussion, Fonseka has said adamantly that he would never support Karu Jayasuriya, as he had avoided a meeting at Hyde Park around a year ago after promising to be present there. He has also said that he would not support Chandrika Kumaratunga either.

Commenting on this, the UNP MP said, “We can gauge the political maturity of Mr. Fonseka if he cannot forget for the sake of the common masses of a bad feeling due to an absence at a meeting. Fonseka is behaving in such an angry mood as if it was Karu who had sent the suicide bomber to kill him. The other thing is that had Karu gone to that meeting, the UNP would have taken disciplinary action against him. Fonseka does not remember that after he lost the presidential election and his hotel was surrounded by the Army, Ranil telephoned Mahinda Rajapaksa, told him that both of them are winners, and went to sleep. Here, Fonseka is playing a different game.”

Investigating this matter further, we found that businessman MP Tiran Alles is behind this change of stance of Fonseka. Alles has promised Fonseka’s wife and two daughters that he would see that the court case against Danuna Tilakaratne, husband of the eldest daughter, was withdrawn. In return, he has asked Fonseka, through his wife and daughters, that he made a statement that he would support Ranil, and no one else, at the presidential election.

Accordingly, Fonseka is involved in a difficult attempt to find whatever fault he could find against Karu. Similarly, he will find some fault or other against former president Kumaratunga too, within the next few days.