They did calculations on the vote base by subtracting votes cast during the presidential election by the TNA, JVP and Sarath Fonseka in favour of Maithri and was dead certain of MahindaРІР‚в„ўs victory. Also as the Ranil image was negative before the Sinhala Buddhist audience, they thought Mahinda could win the general election. They proposed to label Ranil as a Tiger sympathizer to defeat Ranil as he would contest Mahinda. They were of the view as the TNA which would contest separately unlike the presidential election the UNP would be compelled to base their success on the Sinhala Buddhist vote. In that backdrop they thought Mahinda could easily win the general elections. When they claimed that Mahinda was a President who won the Sinhala Buddhist vote, Mahinda claimed he was not defeated. They further claimed that Maithri obtained only 5,239,051 outside the North and East and Mahinda secured 5,444,490 leading with a majority of 205,439. They said that when the North-East votes were separated, Mahinda led in the South predominantly Sinhala Buddhist areas. Hence, they went round the country saying that Mahinda won the Sinhala Buddhist vote at the January polls. The РІР‚ВLetРІР‚в„ўs rise with MahindaРІР‚в„ў team around him thought that Maithri won the poll with Tamil votes. However, the people rejected that exercise of Mahinda and defeated him. Mahinda who made that claim put out an agreement prepared by his party stating that Maithri and Ranil had entered into an agreement with the TNA and made it public.

Even during the last presidential election, Mahinda sang the same song.

Other than spreading the message that if Ranil won he would work closely with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to sell the country to the Tigers, nothing worthwhile was heard from MahindaРІР‚в„ўs platform. The entire campaign of Mahinda was designed to promote the feeling that if Ranil won the polls the LTTE would revive. The motive was to put the Tiger label on that lawyer and incite racism. Silva disclosed the name of that lawyer and identified as a Tamil. When Maithri removed the UPFA and SLFP Secretaries last week, the Mahinda faction attacked Maithri stating that the latterРІР‚в„ўs decision to introduce new secretaries to act in those offices was taken before Court by a Tamil lawyer. Posted by Administrator on 18 August 2015, 7:44 pm

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