Maithri will make CBK the PM: Tissa

17 December 2014 12:44 pm

The newly appointed Health Minister Tissa Attanayake said that common opposition’s presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena had a secret agenda to appoint former President Chandrika Kumaratunga as the Prime Minister in a government formed by Mr. Sirisena.

 

“Mr. Sirisena has a hidden agenda to give the premiership to Mrs. Chandrika Kumaratunga,” President Mahinda Rajapaksa tweeted quoting Minister Attanayake as saying at the United Peoples Freedom Alliance presidential election rally at Kuliyapitiya today.

 

The President also tweeted that Minister as saying that out of all the agreements signed by Mr. Sirisena, the one with the TNA would be the most dangerous.

 

“Mr. Attanayake asked where were the 25 SLFP stalwarts Mr. Sirisena had promised the UNP to bring along and said that the UNP Leadership had failed to represent the party at two consecutive Presidential Elections,” the President said. (Lahiru Pothmulla)