Chandrika reveals JR’s deal with MR to divide SLFP

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP)’s then Deputy Leader Maithripala Senanayake, his wife and Mahinda Rajapaksa were paid by former President J.R. Jayawardene to divide the SLFP, former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga said on Monday. “President Jayawardene paid them to create divisions within the SLFP,” she said.

She said she has the receipts to prove the deals.

“I have the receipts to prove these transactions. Rajapaksa was paid Rs.35,000 on a monthly basis. Rajapaksa is trying to destroy the party today in a similar manner he was paid to do years ago,” Kumaratunga said.

She said President Jayawardene bribed Rajapaksa and Senanayake to divide the SLFP as his moves to deprive former Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike of her civic rights failed.

“We had generous leaders who gave up everything for the party and the people of the country. But the party was diluted within nine years by Rajapaksa,” she said.