Gotabaya rejects Mangala's allegationtions

Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa today charged that Mangala Samaraweera is the “weakest” Foreign Minister in the history of Sri Lanka because he had done absolutely nothing. Responding to Samaraweera’s recent allegations that his son had lived in a house in US funded by the former government, Rajapaksa said that the minister is attempting to fulfill his “cheap” political aspirations. He said it is not suitable for a minister of his level to make such baseless comments especially regarding children. “If I have stolen billions of dollars as they claim, why would I rent a house? I would have bought a house for money and given,” he said, speaking to reporters outside the Colombo Magistrate’s Court. “Is this what the foreign minister comes and talks about during the budget (debate)? This is what they call cheap politics.”