Foreign, local powers behind UNP-JVP alliance- Minister Maithripala

by L.S. Ananda WEDAARACHCHI

Foreign and local elements that supported terrorist leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran were behind the UNP-JVP alliance.

A large number of foreign ministers, high officials and envoys visited Sri Lanka during the final stages of the humanitarian operation, and ninety-nine percent of them did not come to help the country. They wanted the Government to stop the operation and save Prabhakaran and the LTTE, said SLFP General Secretary, Agriculture and Agrarian Development Minister Maithripala Sirisena.

The Minister said that Sarath Fonseka had said that he did not have an idea to contest the Presidency two months ago. However, foreign and local elements, who are against President Mahinda Rajapaksa due to his patriotic policies, are behind Fonseka changing his mind, he said.

There is strong evidence that foreign elements and spy services had spent a massive amount of euros and Dollars to break the patriotic front led by President Rajapaksa.

Neither a single senior leader of the SLFP nor a responsible member of the SLFP/UPFA would support an unholy UNP-JVP alliance and their Presidential candidate Fonseka. UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and JVP Secretary Tilvin Silva who have no place in the country hope to gain power through Fonseka, who had no development plan of his own for the country, he said.

"The country is positioned in a strategic place in Asia that former colonial powers conquered by invasion, but today foreign powers were trying to achieve the same objective not with the use of arms, but by employing local anti-national forces and persons to work for them", he said.