The attempt made by Mangala, Anura, Ranil to form an alliance was foiled by Wimal- President (Lanka eNEWS)

President Mahinda Rajapakse says that he never proposed or intended to get Mangala Samaraweera to the government's ranks once again and present him a ministerial port folio.

Speaking to some officials of the Lake house at temple trees yesterday the head of state had said that Samaraweera came to meet him after speaking to Alevi Maulana and that they did not talk about any serious issues in politics before the two had dinner shile watching a world cup cricket match.

The Lake house employees were also served dinner by the president and sources say that the move was made to cut down the opposes made by Lake house employees for appointing Bandula Padmakumara as the head of the lake house.

The president with aggression had said that up-to-date he or the government has not been accused of any major issues but it was Mangala who made such an accusation when the opposition had nothing to shout about. He has also said that he was aware of the meeting which took place between Mangala, JVP MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake and the opposition leader to form an alliance but it was halted by Wimal Weerawansa.

The president who said that he had not forgotten the past and that he still remember the support given to him by the JHU and the JVP to come into power. He has said that he asked the JVP to come and work with the government once again but they didn?t and on many occasions he wanted to go for an election, but that he realized the JVP wouldn't even get the number of seats which they already have.

Mahinda Rajapakse had also said that his second option was to get a group from the UNP to join him and that's why he proceeded with it and elaborated that Mangala Samaraweera also agreed this.

Speaking about Bandula Padmakumara the president had said that he has decided to appoint Bandula for the chairman post and that he is a good friend of his for a long time. Then Dinamina editor Mahinda Abeysundara had strongly opposed this saying that Bandula was junior to him and that he worked with the UNP in the past election campaigns.

Rajapakse then reminded then that he is now working with so many UNP parliamentarians including Gamini Lokuge who held a pistol to his head and asked them in return, if so why they can't work with Bandula. The president has said that if any problems arise he would take care of them.

Accordingly Bandula Padmakumara will assume duties as the chairman of the lake house on Monday or Tuesday.

Bandula had apparently put forward one condition to the president before assuming duties which the president agreed to. Bandula had said that he wanted carry on the programme that he hosts every morning on a private television channel.