Anura Kumara Dissanayake has brought together all the opposition, said MP Mujibur Rahman, the Chief Organizer of the Central Colombo Division of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya.
He said this while speaking to the media when he visited the prison to see the well-being of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe who is currently in remand custody.
The current government, which had said it would arrest Ranil Wickremesinghe over the Central Bank incident, the Batalanda Commission report and the issuance of liquor licenses, said that it had abandoned all of those and had instead arrested him for a foreign trip.
MP Mujibur Rahman said that the complainant in this incident was the Secretary to the President, and that alone was enough to understand that this was political revenge.
He further commented as follows:
“Did Anura Kumara buy petrol for his trips during the last parliamentary election and the local government election in Pelawat? He bought petrol with the people’s tax money. The President also gets the same charge for misusing public money. Remember. He has used public money for his political activities.
They say that he went to Anuradhapura or somewhere by helicopter. They also consider it as misusing public money. The other thing is that the government is now trying to show that the law is fair to everyone. Aren’t those in that cabinet who are accused also having cases, and haven’t they taken steps to transfer those cases to other courts?” he asked.