Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Nalin Bandara has questioned Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa’s attendance at a book launch by former minister Udaya Gammanpila on the mastermind of the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks.
Speaking to media, Bandara jokingly suggested that Premadasa’s pictures present at the event could have been made using artificial intelligence technology.
“He can’t be there. It might be AI. He might have been put there using AI technology,” Bandara said, in a sarcastic remark questioning the Opposition Leader’s participation.
Bandara also claimed that individuals responsible for promoting racism in the country had attended the event and alleged that both “big and small masterminds” behind the Easter attacks were present at the gathering.
He further stated that during the time of the Easter attacks, he had served as Deputy Minister of Law and Order and maintained that there were masterminds behind the attacks beyond the suicide bombers.
Bandara said it was the government’s responsibility to identify those responsible, adding that he rejected Gammanpila’s book, which reportedly identifies suicide bomber Zahran Hashim as the mastermind, describing it as an attempt to protect the real perpetrators.
Former minister Udaya Gammanpila last week launched a book claiming that Zahran Hashim, one of the suicide bombers, was the mastermind behind the Easter Sunday attacks. (Newswire)