29 April 2022 08:41 pm
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Leader Sajith Premadasa today alleged that he had got threatening calls saying a plan is afoot to remove him from the Opposition Leader’s post if he fails to agree for an interim government.
“I am getting telephone calls 24 hours a day asking me to join an interim government together with other parties in Parliament. There was a threatening call among these. One caller told me that there is a plan to remove me from the opposition leader’s post. I am prepared to resign from the opposition leader’s post as I always have the backing and the sympathy of the common people,” he told a gathering in Mirigama.
“No one from SJB will join an interim government,” he added.
“A political teledrama was unveiled yesterday where there were conflicts within the government parliamentary group. The President had informed the group that he had not asked the Prime Minister to resign. MP Dallas Alahaperuma has said he had associated with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa for a long time, to which the President had replied saying Mr. Rajapaksa became his brother long before Mr. Alahaperuma started associating with him. The government has become a pickle. Now they are requesting us to join an interim government. We are against joining an interim government,” he also said. (Yohan Perera)