The State Minister of Highways was reacting to an inquiry from a journalist, at a SLFP media preparation in Colombo, with respect to an announcement made by the Hambantota District MP to a daily paper that just 96 MPs stayed to protect the gathering while the rest hopped sides.
Perera said that in 2004 they had an administration which couldn't even designate a Speaker of Parliament and that in those days Mahinda Rajapaksa made an arrangement with the UNP and took 13 MPs.
He included that some say Mahinda Rajapaksa made an arrangement with the Tamil Tigers and this kept votes from being cast in the North.
Nonetheless, that ended up becoming a decent arrangement as it prompted Prabhakaran's annihilation, the State Minister said.
He asserted that Namal Rajapaksa was pondering turning into the nation's pioneer if his dad, Mahinda Rajapaksa, was in force for an additional 15 years, notwithstanding it is not the feeling of the SLFP.
Perera expressed that the individuals who are a piece of the joint restriction say that Mahinda Rajapaksa has no blood staring him in the face and that the Rajapaksa era are far intuition people.
Be that as it may, Namal Rajapaksa is making such remarks in light of the fact that he turned into a MP when his dad was President, he said.
