A photo of me approaching the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and greeting him with folded hands at a wedding ceremony has been posted on the former President’s Facebook page, and it is not me, says Kalutara District Parliamentarian Nilanthi Kottachchi of the National People’s Power. She made this statement while posting on her Facebook account. The MP also stated that if the photo has been edited, she will take legal action against it.
The Facebook post posted by MP Nilanthi Kottachchi is as follows.
I would like to state on behalf of the party members that I am not the one in the photo circulating on social media showing me with Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa, and that I did not attend the wedding ceremony mentioned on Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa’s official page, and that I was not a guest at the wedding ceremony.
I hereby inform you that legal action will be taken if this is edited in any way.