He says he will say goodbye to politics if this situation persists and his fight against it fails.

According to Seneviratne, some in the JO make meaningless statements here and there, which he did not expect to happen.

He is a member of the so-called ‘16 group’ of the SLFP that left the government some time back, which has become politically stranded after the JO and the SLPP leaderships have refused to accept them.