President recalls his days in prison ‘I had only a 2 x 6 cell infested with bugs and mossies’
President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday said that he had not enjoyed the luxury of hot water showers while he was in prison.
Addressing the inauguration ceremony of the SLFP reorganization ceremony in Anuradhapura, the President said: “I did not have an electric fan or a good cell while I was in prison. I was given only a two by six cell infested with bugs. We served the time swatting mosquitoes. I suffered for three months at Magazine going through hell. While we were in the opposition our houses were destroyed and we were thrown behind bars. Today, the perpetrators are crying blue murder about the conditions in prisons.”
President Rajapaksa said there were 126 SLFP members in Parliament and it was the highest number of MPs the SLFP had got in the history of the party. “People voted for us because we always were with them and lived with them,” he said.
The Opposition was afraid of elections because they were convinced of imminent defeat and further rejection by the masses,” President Rajapaksa told a cheering crowd. “While we were in the Opposition we were fighting for elections, but today the Opposition is making a frantic effort to move the courts to delay elections,” he said.
Courtesy: The Island
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Does this mean a person got to be in prison on the path to becoming President?
If true, Ranil W should retire. Fonseka has the necessary “qualification” (having been a prisoner) to become the next President.
Hellow Chumpa,
It is a well said column of the day.
Dayaratne Bandara.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Ms Mudalige, I totally agree with you.
I am puzzled ! Where does it say that going to a prison is the pathway to be a president. If that is the case, we should have about a million presidents by now.
May be I am not as literate as Chumpa, but I am glad if Chumpa can show me how she got that message from the article.
Anyway, being a president is a qualification to enter to the Hell. It has told the Buddha by his experience of privious births in Jataka stories..!
Because the accumilating of serious SINS in big bulk is unavoidable when bear a leadership of country. For instance MR is the main share holder of sins of killing 1000s of terrors to obtain peace, though he did a good for millions people by making peace. That’s a home truth & the sins of letting suffer people unjustly, also goes to presidents account. Have any evidence of forgiving by a god for the sins of anyone ever who said that i feel god..?
Myth believers may feel so while dreaming here for an eternal life which’s never realize & practical at all.
How these fools dream what’re never going to experience & while they living only upon practical experiences..? What a shit they can get done by god practically..? NOTHING…!
What a blindness is this which definitly leads to Hell..? -Invisibility of things as they are-