When the Easter bomb exploded, the Rajapaksas were caught in the October conspiracy and were lost…
Someone said while looking at the newspapers at the newsstand.
“So you’re saying that the Rajapaksas were the ones who had the bomb…?”
The mudalali asked in a daze.
“I don’t know that. But it was the Rajapaksas who used the Easter bomb to blow up Ranil’s government…”
He said that and then the guy who entered the store left without even taking the newspaper.
There is truth to the story. When the then President Maithripala Sirisena removed Ranil from the post of Prime Minister in 2018 and made Mahinda the Prime Minister, Mahinda was extremely embarrassed because he could not show 113. Then, when the Supreme Court ordered Mahinda to immediately resign from the post of Prime Minister, Mahinda was extremely helpless. Before that, Mahinda and the Pohottuwa had taken the prime ministership from Maithripala Sirisena in the 2018 by-election, and Mahinda lost it by taking over the prime ministership from Maithripala Sirisena. The Easter bomb exploded as if a lottery had been drawn for the Rajapaksas and the Pohottuwa.
Immediately after the bomb exploded, Gotabaya made a statement to the foreign media that he would contest the presidential election. From then on, Gotabaya, Mahinda, Basil, and the Rajapaksa family, the Pohottuwa, Wimal, Udaya, and Dinesh, and the leaders of the Pohottuwa alliance got down to business.
The game that Chandrika played to topple Ranil’s government in 2004 was that Ranil was patronizing the Tigers.
The game that the Rajapaksas played to bring down Ranil’s government in 2019 was that Ranil was patronizing Muslim terrorists. In 2004, Chandrika used Prabhakaran to say that Ranil was patronizing the Tigers. In 2019, the Rajapaksas could not find a character like Prabhakaran in the Muslim community to say that Ranil was patronizing Muslim terrorists. They replaced Prabhakaran with Rishad Bathiudeen, the most powerful minister in Ranil’s government. The Rajapaksas branded him a terrorist. The Rajapaksas accused Ranil and the UNP of turning a blind eye to the bombings by feeding Muslim leaders who were feeding Muslim terrorists, including Rishad.
The day after the bombing, Mahinda went to meet Cardinal Thero and got the Cardinal to confirm that the bombings were the government’s fault.
At this time, Ranil was in a different world. The UNP, who was going to meet him, Ranil told the MPs a strange story.
“Look how Mahinda and Maithri are spinning this for Maithri…”
Ranil told them. Ranil thought that since Mahinda and Maithri had enmity with Maithri, because Maithri was the Defense Minister, Mahinda and Maithri would finish him off with a bomb. Mahinda gave that rope to Ranil and made Ranil believe that Maithri, as the Defense Minister, should be responsible for the bomb attack. I don’t know if Ranil and the UNP got him to believe it. The UNP MPs also said that Maithri did not make their leader and Prime Minister Ranil participate in the Security Council meetings, and that Maithri should accept responsibility for the bomb.
But by now, the Rajapaksas had made a deal to contest the presidential election together with Maithri. That was to pocket the 1.4 million votes that Maithri had won in the 2018 by-election. Therefore, the Rajapaksas calculated that the Easter attack should be blamed on Ranil and the UNP, and the UNP should be destroyed.
The Rajapaksas set the country on fire by lighting the Easter bomb. Ranil and the UNP were seen by the people as traitors who were feeding the terrorists who were destroying the country. Ranil and the UNP, who did not allow Mahinda to end the war by feeding Prabhakaran, now the people accepted the stories of the Rajapaksas, Udayas, Wimal, and Dinesh that they were going to feed the Muslim terrorists and make the country a haven for Muslim terrorists. Ranil and the UNP were accused by the Rajapaksas of turning Sri Lanka into a country that makes human bombs for international Muslim terrorist targets, citing international media reports that Sri Lankan radical Muslims were receiving training in Syria.
Ranil and the UNP were so helpless in the face of this Muslim and anti-Ranil-UNP tsunami created by the Rajapaksas that all the Muslim ministers in the government were told to resign.
Chandrika and Mahinda destroyed Ranil and the UNP by branding Ranil and the UNP as LTTE supporters. After the war ended, people forgot the LTTE. That is why Ranil and the UNP won in 2015. While Ranil and the UNP were trying to get back on their feet by shedding the LTTE label, the Rajapaksas branded Ranil and the UNP as ISIS supporters. They made that the slogan. The Rajapaksas, Wimal, and Udaya created fear and panic in the country by claiming that Dr. Shafi, who was linked to the UNP government, was performing sterilization surgeries on Sinhala Buddhist women.
The Rajapaksas had been making this Muslim terrorist narrative against Ranil and the UNP government even before the Easter bombing. For this, they used Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, who had created problems between President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil, and who suppressed allegations against the avant-garde leader, a disciple of Gotabaya, by creating conflicts between them. When the UNP forced Maithripala Sirisena to remove him from the post of Minister of Justice and Buddha Sasana, who was destroying the government from within, Maithri reluctantly agreed.
Wijeyadasa, who was removed from his ministerial post, accused the frontline of the government of pampering Muslim terrorists for the sake of the Rajapaksas for the first time. When the Easter bomb exploded, Gotabaya joined the President, saying that what he had said earlier was correct.
The Easter bomb has been turned into a weapon against the Rajapaksas and the Pohottuwa, who had turned the UNP into a scapegoat. It was not because of anyone else, but because of Anura Kumara and the JVP. If it is right, the UNP and the Samagi Jana Balawegaya should offer flowers and lamps to Anura.
