I saved Mahinda from the electric chair-MS

13 February 2016 10:24 pm

President Maithripala Sirisena said that he is the one who saved former President Mahinda Rajapaksa from being sent to the electric chair.

He said that former President Rajapaksa claimed that if he (Maithripala) became the President of the country, he (Mahinda) would be send to the electric chair over alleged war crimes. "But my government was able to save him from being sent to the electric chair,” President Sirisena said addressing an event in Welikanda, Polonnaruwa today.

He also said the entire country would be developed without developing selected areas in the country.