27 July 2022 02:42 pm Views - 9598
SJB MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka today said he and his party will join in the final battle to remove corrupt rulers from power on August 9, 2022.
Speaking during the emergency debate in the House, Field Marshal Fonseka said incumbent Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardene might have to become the President of this country after August 9, 2022.
“ If the current President thinks he can suppress any uprising the way they did in 1988/89, he is mistaken. The world and the protesters are much more developed now. Also the President should know that more than 95% of the security forces and the police are with the protesting masses. Security forces and the police also should not follow orders and attack the protesters,” he said.
“It will only be possible to form a new government by bringing a new front comprising non corrupted persons in the opposition and in the government. I don’t mean that the new government after the struggle would be an SJB-led one,” he added.
“One has to understand that collateral damage takes place during an uprising. It should also be understood that the youth who took over state-owned buildings did so on behalf of the people. They wanted the give people something more. Therefore one should not shout about damaging state-owned buildings,” he also said.
MP Fonseka said the arrest of a protester inside an aircraft cannot be condoned (Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana)