In an intriguing disclosure, Kumaratunga said that the versatile application Viber helped topple Rajapaksa's administration since the knowledge administrations were not able to take advantage of it.
Extracts from cooperation with previous President Kumaratunga on September 5th,2015:
Q: You are in India to go to the Hindu-Buddhist gathering in Bodh Gaya for the benefit of Sri Lanka… what is the significance of this meeting that PM Modi additionally went to?
Chandrika Kumaratunga: I think its essential for Sri Lanka on the grounds that the heroes are from these two groups. So on the off chance that we can discover shared view between the two religions rather than diversities it would be valuable. Obviously the Tamil address never included the religious perspective.
Q: This is additionally your first authority visit to India since President Sirisena's administration was confirmed, and you have been delegated the emissary for compromise. How would you see India-Sri Lanka ties at present?
Chandrika Kumaratunga: Historically all Sri Lankan governments have had phenomenal relations with India. But one legislature before Rajapaksa had different issues, which exacerbated the war in Sri Lanka. Furthermore, the Rajapaksa administration did not have simple relations with India. In any case, for our (Sirisena) government it wasn't hard to get from where my Presidency left off (in 2005). We saw the awful outcomes of Rajapaksa's arrangements towards India.
Q: Did India have any part in Rajapaksa's constituent annihilation? In a meeting to The Hindu he had reprimanded Indian intelligency organization R&AW and Western nations of a connivance against him.
Chandrika Kumaratunga: That's not genuine. No outside power had anything to do with. But that directly through Rajapaksa's administration, global group deplored his strategies, and asked me for what good reason I wasn't coming back to governmental issues. In any case, aside from that they don't had anything to do with it. We can deal with our own undertakings… .Because he anticipated that would win the race, he was in stun when he lost, and attempted to search for substitutes.
Q: You had a vital part in uniting the restriction in overcoming him. How could that happen?
Chandrika Kumaratunga: It simply happened. Since everybody in the nation beginning from around two years into President Rajapaksa's administration started to move in the opposite direction of him. Indeed, even individuals from the restriction who typically would not have acknowledged my authority, common society in a major manner came and requesting that I come back to governmental issues. I said no, in light of the fact that I was clear I wouldn't come back to appointive legislative issues, not to hold positions. After the end of the war when President Rajapaksa won the decisions in 2010 I thought he would move forward. In any case, that wasn't the situation, he was deteriorating. You cannot compel the hand of history. So we couldn't constrain an upset, it is the individuals who must need a change. So when individuals began challenging, common society, anglers, college teachers, it was apparent individuals needed the change. Individuals called me and said, I had gotten the President, I needed to take care of him . I did feel I had done what's needed, my family had done what's necessary, yet I was prepared to offer assistance. The genuine issue was that the resistance didn't have somebody who could win the race against Rajapaksa. So I needed to begin glancing around, under awesome challenges. Mr. Rajapaksa had prohibited each and every individual of our gathering the SLFP from conversing with me. MPs used to run when they saw me. Else they would get a call from the President. In the midst of such circumstances, I distinguished Maithripala Sirisena. There weren't numerous more to distinguish as it was to hard to discover anybody in the SLFP why should known be degenerate or a killer (giggles). It was extremely hard to discover somebody from my gathering at an administration level like that. I had worked with Maithripala and I knew he fitted the bill, atleast to some degree. No one's ideal. Presently I needed to send messages through individuals to him. In some cases I utilized envoys. The same dispatcher couldn't go regularly, in light of the fact that it would be accounted for. It was a police state.
Q: Is there any truth to the story India gave specialized gadgets, DRDO made satellite telephones?
Chandrika Kumaratunga: No..completely false. We were utilizing Viber. Also, the legislature didn't know how to tap Viber. Evidently it is troublesome for any knowledge organization anyplace to take advantage of Viber, albeit some can recognize out who is calling whom. In any case, Sri Lanka didn't have that innovation, else we would have all been dead. I couldn't bear the cost of a major office, I could just contract 2 individuals as Rajapaksa had shut down my office. Yet, we oversaw by one means or another, and I can say that the principle reason we were effective is that common society truly rose up. They were associates alongside the UNP. Ranil Wickremshinghe wasn't reluctant to meet. I understood that we would require a union, in light of the fact that the restriction in our nation had been debilitated. So I contributed to uniting all of them, and that was it. In the long run the basic adversary united us.
Q: Given that, what amount would you say you were agonized over Rajapaksa's arrival to power in the late decisions that were won by the UNP? Particularly given the strain inside of the gathering over the SLFP gathering ticket given by President Sirisena to Rajapaksa…
Chandrika Kumaratunga: Yes there was a strain between every one of us, not just between the President and the PM. In any case, that has subsequent to been determined. Furthermore, President Sirisena has vindicated himself amid the crusade by his activities and proclamations amid the battle. I realize that he was resolved not to let the "baddies" return. In any case, the President was attempting to keep the gathering together, and was misdirected by the two secretaries of the gathering who cheated him on the grounds that they were for Rajapaksa. At last he did sack them, yet we felt he ought to have sacked them much b
