Nimal Lanza lashes out at NPP over alleged links with Easter Sunday bombers

• Says negotiations underway with 60 MPs willing to join new alliance

The terror group which carried out Easter Sunday bomb  attacks are associates of National People’s Power (NPP) and had actually  funded the Marxists, MP Nimal Lanza said over the weekend.   “Ibrahim who was a key suspect in Easter Sunday attacks was  in the NPP national list. The Father of one suicide bomber was also in the  NPP national list.

This group has funded NPP millions of rupees.  Catholics in this country should remember this fact when casting their  votes,” Lanza said during the inaugural rally of the new alliance that  is in the making.   

“NPP Leaders have not paid a single cent as taxes. They  have not provided employment to a single youth, unlike us. This is  because they don’t own any enterprise. They are not employed. However,  they lead more comfortable lives than any one of us,” he said.   
Hitting out at Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), the MP said  Nalaka Godahewa, the man who misled former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa,  had now become the chief economic advisor of Opposition Leader Sajith  Premadasa. “It was Godahewa who advised former President to suspend  importation of chemical fertilizer and on tax cuts,” he said.   

“We will not have a single leader in the new alliance.  There will be only a leadership council in our alliance instead,” he  said.   

Lanza said negotiations are underway with 60 MPs who are willing to join the new alliance.   

MP Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said the new alliance will  bring in a new political culture. “We will do away with nepotism. We  will end the tradition of passing leadership of a party from father to  uncle and to the son,” he said in this regard.   

Minister Susil Premajayantha recalled that he was removed from the cabinet after he said the cost of living was unbearable.”