Speaking at a rally held in Mathugama on Sunday evening, the Leader of the Democratic Party, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, stated:

I too faced a problem I did not stay at General’s House on Bauddhaloka Mawatha.

He went on to state:

The ceiling is wooden and when there is a threat, you cannot stay there. So I lived in a three bedroom house belonging to the Army, which was 60 years old.  I was there for three years and several months and we reinforced the ceiling in my bedroom with concrete and that cost 50,000 rupees; but that bunker has cost 33 million dollars and in truth, it could have been built for about one million dollars.

He added:

They have pocketed 32 million dollars from the bunker project too. I think we need to look to the future so it is useless to spend any more time on the Rajapaksas because the Rajapaksas are finished.

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