The Hon. Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam

¶ 01 Sorry, the Hon. Gajan Ponnambalam is here and he is correcting me that they were part of it, but the command responsibility would directly lie with the Rajapaksas. That is what I would say. The then President and the Head of the Armed Forces was Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Acting Defence Minister was Maithripala Sirisena. They are the ones who should be worried. Why are you all worried? You are trying to protect the State. Why are you trying to protect the State? It is because that is a significant vote bank. If you put together the number of military personnel in this country - I will speak on that tomorrow as well - they would be about 300,000 to 400,000, and if you multiply that by three, four or even by five at times, it would come to about 1.5 million votes! You all are worried that you would lose those votes. Are you here to do the right thing or just to keep winning elections?