While the journalists were having lunch former Minister Bandula Gunawardena along with several others had also joined the journalists in lunch. While having the meal the former minister has told journalists that since the government has changed he was having a hard time with food. "As I live close by I too eat from the temple sometimes," he has said.

However, several journalists had talked among themselves how Gunawardena not cover his meals from his MP salary since he had previously claimed during the former regime that a family could survive with Rs. 2,500 per month.