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"If I allowed that they would
have said I was frightened"
Army wanted to arrest
Fonseka before election, MR stopped it
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has told one of India’s most
influential journalists that the army had wanted to take General (Rtd.)
Sarath Fonseka into custody for an inquiry into serious allegations
against him but the president had stopped that.
"If at that time I had allowed that, they would have
said that I was frightened of this man contesting," the president had
told N. Ram, the editor-in-chief of The Hindu, a director of its owning
company and a member of the family owning the influential South Indian
newspaper.
UNP still looking for
Opposition unity
UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake yesterday issued
an open invitation to all parties, especially the JVP, to run under the
United National Front (UNF) banner and the Elephant symbol at the
forthcoming parliamentary election.
Gotabhaya Rajapaksa makes a
quiet visit to India
Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary
Gotabaya Rajapaksa paid an unpublicized five-day semi-official visit to
India last week and met top officials here, The Sunday Island can now
reveal.
