Bodu Janasena Peramuna (BJP) leader Galagoda Athththe Gnanasara Thera on Wednesday (12) stated that the defeat of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa was caused by activities of his own sons.

 

Addressing a press briefing, Gnanasara Thera stressed that because of those three sons, Sri Lankan security forces personnel did not vote for Rajapaksa in the presidential election.

 

Moreover Bodu Bala Sena Executive Director Dilantha Withanage said that it never damaged properties of innocent muslims. The organization did not make any attempt to harm the unity between Sri Lankan communities, he added and said if anyone has an image that BBS is an anti-muslim organization it is because Mahinda Rajapaksa interfered the media of the country.

 

“Rajapaksa did not allow us to reach state media. That is why people have a wrong image on BBS,” he asserted.

 

However during the presidential election 2010, the BBS openly supported Mahinda Rajapaksa saying that Rajapaksa was the ‘less-harmful’ leader for the country. But after few weeks of the election Rajapaksa accused that the BBS was nothing but a ‘western conspiracy’ create to defeat him in the election.