General Sarath Fonseka, the defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate who was arrested last week, filed a petition in the Supreme Court yesterday accusing the Government of rigging last month’s election.
The former army chief, who led the victorious campaign against the Tamil Tigers but is now facing charges of planning a military coup, urged the court to overturn the results of the January 26 election.
Mahinda Rajapaksa, the incumbent, won the first presidential poll since the Tigers’ defeat with more than 57 per cent of the vote, ahead of General Fonseka on just over 40 per cent.
But the general, who resigned from the Army in November after falling out with the President, refused to accept the result and vowed to challenge it in the Supreme Court.
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