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Gotabaya got home
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Amid tight security, former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday received a stream of visitors at his new bungalow at Malalasekara Mawatha in Colombo.
Among those who visited him yesterday was his brother, former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, followed by Deputy Speaker Ajith Rajapakshe, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Parliamentarian Seetha Arambepola and Uva Province Governor A.J.M. Muzammil.
A heavy security cordon has been deployed surrounding the former President’s bungalow, which has been allocated by the state.
Mr Rajapaksa and his wife Ioma Rajapaksa received a warm welcome at the Bandaranaike International Airport on Friday night when he returned to the country after more than 50 days abroad.
Many SLPP MPs and provincial politicians were present at the airport to receive him.
Several Cabinet Ministers were among those who welcomed the former President and his wife. They included Ministers Prasanna Ranatunga, Kanchana Wijesekara, Ramesh Pathirana and Tiran Alles, and MPs Mahindananda Aluthgamage, Rohitha Abeygunawardena, Indika Anuruddha, Kanaka Herath, Prasanna Ranaweera, Madura Withanage, Dilum Amunugama and Rajika Wickramasinghe.
Mr Rajapaksa’s return on Friday night was in marked contrast to his hasty, secretive and humiliating exit from the country on July 13 when as President, he along with his wife and two bodyguards were flown on a Sri Lanka Air Force plane to the Maldives following months of public uprising calling for his resignation.
He then took a commercial airline to Singapore, from where he sent his resignation through the Sri Lankan High Commission in Singapore to Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena. Mr Rajapaksa arrived in the country last night from Thailand, where he had been staying since August.
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