He has told BBC Sandeshaya that appointing a jumbo cabinet was not expected by the people.

No one pushed them into raising a voice on behalf of the people against crime, swindling and fraud that had taken place before the presidential election, he noted.

Bandaranayake said his group was not foolish enough to accept as a change the reappointment to the helm of those rejected by the people.

He said it was not from the president or the ministers, but his group the people question from with regard to their disillusionment of the good governance regime.

Repression at the hands of those re-appointees is likely, he said.

He quoted Bertolt Brecht, who said, “Would it not be easier
In that case for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?”, and noted that not even a play by Brecht had such a brutality.