Retired generals summoned for president’s election campaign!

 Friday, 05 December 2014 

Defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has summoned, with immediate effect, several retired major generals to carry out the election campaign of president Mahinda Rajapaksa.

He has taken the step since almost all SLFP electoral organizers in Colombo district are in a dilemma following Maithripala Sirisena’s candidature as the common opposition candidate, and most of them have become inactive.

Under ‘operation segment – ii’ four retired major generals have been appointed to Colombo, dividing the district into four zones, similar in manner to a military operation.

Retired Maj. Gen. K.B. Egodawela will be in charge overall and the mobile phone number allotted to him is 0777314560. His chief coordinator is retired Maj. Gen.G. Jayasundara, whose mobile phone number is 0771088401.

Colombo district has been divided into Kolonnawa (Group - 1), Kotte (Group - 2), Maharagama (Group - 3) and Dehiwala (Group - 4).

Commanding officer for Kolonnawa is retired Maj. Gen. Wasantha Bandara (mobile no. 0785213968), while retired Maj. Gen. Seewali Wanigasekara (mobile no. 0777274014) will be in charge of Kotte, and retired Maj. Gen. Palitha Fernando (mobile no. 0773243032) oversees Maharagama, with Maj. D.L Attanayake (mobile no. 0771088405) who is still in service, will be assisting him.

In addition, four civilians have been appointed to coordinate civilian affairs. They are B.A. Sanath for Dehiwela, W.M.A.S. Subhash Weerasinghe for Kolonnawa, Nimal Somaratne for Kotte and Chinthaka Suranga for Maharagama.

In addition, the defence ministry has introduced a coded military network that covers the entire island.