R&AW Led To Rajapaksa’s Defeat !
Sri Lanka’s growing proximity to China led to R&AW playing a pivotal role in helping the opposition oust President Mahinda Rajapaksa and putting up Sirisena as the joint opposition candidate.
( January 19, 2015, New Delhi, Sri Lanka Guardian) Reports from Sri Lanka suggest that the Colombo chief of R&AW had a role to play in the defeat of Mahinda Rajapaksa in the Sri Lanka 2015 presidential elections but New Delhi has denied the charge. India’s Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) Colombo station chief K. Ilango was transferred in the run-up to the presidential elections. It has been reported that Sri Lanka had him expelled, accusing him of helping the opposition oust the then President Mahinda Rajapaksa who ruled over the island nation for a decade.
