03rd October 2007

Tiger terrorists have denied taking a large amount of money from Rajapakse family to ensure victory to Mahinda Rajapakse at the Presidential election held in 2005. S.P. Thamilselvan, head of the political wing of the tiger organization has said tigers never received money during or after the election to stop people from the North and the East from voting , an act many analysts say favoured Mahinda Rajapakse to win the election.

In an interview published in “Uthayan” , a Tamil newspaper, Thamilselvan had said the allegation that Tigers had received money from Mahinda Rajapakse’s camp to prevent Tamils voting for the rival candidate Ranil Wickramasinhe in the Presidential election, by forcing the Tamil voters to boycott the polling, was a only a vilification campaign carried out in the south for the last six months and was factually wrong, malicious and vicious.

A propaganda campaign is going on for the last six months that the tigers had accepted huge amount of money as bribe from Mahinda Rajapakse’s camp during the Presidential election, and the Tigers enforced a boycott, forcefully disallowing the people in the north and east from exercising their franchise which allowed Mahinda Rajapakse to win the election by depriving Ranil Wickremasinghe to get the Tamil votes.