Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) will not consider any action against Thamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) Leader, State Minister, Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan, despite the allegations in the recent Channel 4 documentary, linking him with the Easter Sunday terror attacks of 2019.
UK-based “Channel 4” on 5 September broadcast the controversial documentary titled “Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings”, and it contains startling accusations pertaining to the terror attacks on 21 April 2019.
Appearing in the documentary in question, TMVP's former Spokesman, Azad Maulana claimed that he had facilitated a meeting between the late National Thowheed Jamaat (NTJ) Leader Mohamed Cassim Mohamed Zahran alias Zahran Hashim and the then military intelligence officer, current State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director, Major General Suresh Sallay, in the East.
Since Moulana's alleged participation in the said meeting creates a link between the terror attacks and the TMVP, which currently supports the SLPP-led Government, The Daily Morning asked SLPP General Secretary and MP, Sagara Kariyawasam as to whether the SLPP is consider taking any action regarding TMVP or its leader Chandrakanthan?
In response, Kariyawasam said that there was no need for any such action as the allegations contained in the relevant documentary are baseless.
"Why should we initiate any action? Firstly, He is from a separate political party which is in our alliance, and we have no right to take any action against him. Secondly, he has very clearly said that this particular person (Moulana) who was with him for a long time, has now gone to Switzerland and sought refugee status there. Appearance in this video is a better way for him to say that he cannot come back to Sri Lanka, and he needs some place to live", Kariyawasam charged.
The much-talked-about documentary claims that the terror attacks on Easter Sunday 2019, which claimed 269 lives and injured hundreds of others, had been orchestrated with the alleged complicity of state officials to pave the way for the Rajapaksas (the family of former Presidents Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa), particularly Gotabaya Rajapaksa, to come to power.