Former UPFA MP Dallas Alahapperuma stated that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's claim that the national security would be protected under a UNP government cannot be trusted simply because President Maithripala Sirisena would be the Defence Minister.

 

Speaking at a meeting in Matara yesterday, Alahapperuma said that Wickremesinghe once signed an agreement with the LTTE without informing the then President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, who was also the Defence Minister. Therefore, his word cannot be trusted, Alahapperuma said.

 

Alahapperuma also claimed that in Wickremesinghe's world, the executive president is not Maithripala Sirisena but US President Barack Obama.