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CHANDRIKA INVOLVED WITH AN OPPOSITION MOVEMENT TO TOPPLE THE GOVERNMENT MEETS NORWEGIAN AMBASSADOR

(By Walter Jayawardhana)

Former President Chandrika Kumaratunga who has arrived following another self exile in London to align herself with an opposition political movement to topple the Mahinda Rajapksa government made it a priority event to meet Norwegian Ambassador Hans Brattskar.
Sources in Colombo said the former President met the Ambassador just hours after returning to the island at her office in the independence Avenue.
The meeting with one of the most controversial ambassadors in Colombo in the back drop of the former President working very closely with Mahinda Rajapaksa’s former cabinet Minister Mangala Samaraweera and Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe create interesting political speculations in the Sri Lankan capital. The JVP and the JHU are openly attacking the Norwegians for secretly funding Tamil Tigers .
There is evidence that Chandrika Kumaratunga meeting at least one ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) district organizer to coerce him to join the opposition movement.
She reportedly requested Wasantha Senanayaka a SLFP local official in Anuradhapura to join the new coalition of Mangala Samaraweera and Ranil Wickremesinghe who have openly appealed to the parliamentarians topple the government. Senanayaka said he rejected her proposition.
Mangala Samaraweera has openly requested the leftist Janta Vimukti Peramuna not to waste time pasting posters and shouting slogans at demonstrations criticizing the government but to join them to topple the government at a public rally in Anuradhapura.
He said that he was having 107 fellows in the parliament. If the JVP joined them, Mangala Samaraweera said he would give the other six people to topple the government and “send Mahinda Rajapksa home.”
But even Mangala Samaraweera succeeds in his political arithmetic only limited damage could be done to President Mahinda Rajapaksa as he would remain the executive branch of the government until the next Presidential elections.
Meanwhile the government has charged that some members of the United National Party Democratic Wing had been offered Rupees 110 million each bribe by the pro-LTTE Australian businessman Charles Gnanakone to buy members for the opposition move. The government has sought the help of the Interpol to arrest him.
Colombo observers have questioned the timing and reasons for the Kumaratunga-Brattskar meeting.

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