ToI and other Indian newspapers are not reporting this.............. a pathetic trolling by rajapaksha to derail the good relation.
Sri Lanka election: Attempted 'coup' by former president Mahinda Rajapaska to be investigated - Asia - World - The Independent
Sri Lankan government aide accuses Mahinda Rajapaksa of 'coup' attempt
Sri Lanka to investigate alleged coup attempt by former president | World news | The Guardian
Sri Lanka’s new government will investigate an alleged attempt by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to stage a coup to try to stay in power when results showed he was losing last week’s election.
A “special investigation” will be set up to probe the incident after the new government is formed later today, said Mangala Samaraweera, the spokesman for President
Maithripala Sirisena, who
came to power after winning Thursday’s poll. “Some say this was a very peaceful transition. But that’s not the truth. People should know what happened behind the scenes,” Mr Samaraweera said.
Mr Samaraweera accused Mr Rajapaksa of making an attempt to deploy the army and police to stop the counting of votes when initial results showed he was heading for defeat.
He said Mr Rajapaksa convened the chiefs of the police and the army, as well as the attorney general, at midnight on Thursday and asked them to come up with a plan to stop the vote-counting. Mr Samaraweera said the three officials opposed the move.
“People should know about the dangerous situation that existed and Mr Rajapaksa’s coup to bury the country’s democracy,” said Mr Samaraweera, adding that the new government’s first task would be “to probe this coup and reveal to the country what really took place”.
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Another Sirisena ally, the MP Rajitha Senaratne, said: “The army chief got orders to deploy the troops on the ground across the country. They tried attempts to continue by force. The army chief defied all the orders he got in the last hours. We spoke to the army chief and told him not to do this. He kept the troops in the barracks and helped a free and fair election,” Mr Senaratne added.
A spokesman for Mr Rajapaksa denied the allegations and said that he had decided to transfer power after looking at the trend of the results in the early hours of Friday.