(Lanka-e-News, Oct.26, 2009, 5.00PM) According to our Singapore correspondent, Chief of Defense staff Gen.Sarath Fonseka who left SL on the 24th on a tour of America and other countries has met UNP and opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe in Singapore.

The meeting has taken place at the Crown Plaza Hotel in the vicinity of the Singapore Airport, the report further stated.

While Gen. Fonseka’s name is hitting news headlines as a prospective candidate for the next Presidential election, the Govt. through the Army media spokesperson made an announcement that such news using the names of Army chiefs is a maneuver to create a rift between the govt. and the Army officers, and therefore legal action will be filed against those who publish such news. Meanwhile, the meeting between Gen. Fonseka and Ranil Wickremesinghe amidst this Govt. stir and anxiety has sparked speculations that this meeting can have an impact on the future political destiny of the country.
Incidentally, just prior to Gen. Fonseka’s departure from the country, JHU leader M.P. Ellawala Medhananda Thero and Uduwe Dhammaloka Thero had a meeting with him for about an hour.