‘TNA won’t allow Gota to become President’
Former Defence Secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa should stop dreaming of the executive presidency because the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) would ensure that he would never secure it, TNA Kilinochchi District MP, S. Shritharan told media yesterday.
The TNA would also not allow Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa to become the President, the MP said. “We decided to support the budget 2019 because we want to prevent Mahinda Rajapaksa from returning to power,” he said.
Certain sections were trying to overthrow this government and come into power by defeating the budget, Shritharan said. However the TNA would not allow such an eventuality to happen, he added.
“A large number of people want Mahinda Rajapaksa to become President, but this will never happen as long as we are here,” he said.
Gotabaya has declared his willingness to contest the presidential election and it has been widely speculated that Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) is likely to field former Defence Secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa as their Presidential candidate.
(Source: The Island – By Dinasena Ratugamage)
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LOL
This guy is a dreamer.
For 30 long years during the war, this guy and his associates were under the command of the Sun God, the Late Velu P.
You and your associates did nothing while the Sun God was stealing young men and women from Yahalapanaam, tying Cyanide capsule around their neck and sending them to the north/East/West/South with a Machine Gun.
It is MAHINDA Rajapaksa and GOTHABHAYA Rajapaksa who redeemed the entire Sri Lanka including the North and the South and the East and the West from the megalomaniac, Late Mr VP.
Mr Sritharan, why are you now opposing the great redeemer, GR, from assuming the throne and redeeming the country form social and economic downturns?