evidence: Sajith Premadasa, the son of Lanka's former President Ranasinghe Premadasa, spoke exclusively to India Today TV on the way forward, the massive trust deficit of the people in the nation's political leadership, what went wrong and several other issues. [...] Sajith Premadasa, the son of Lanka’s former President Ranasinghe Premadasa, spoke exclusively to India Today TV on the way forward, the massive trust deficit of the people in the nation’s political leadership, what went wrong and several other issues. [...] "Basically, I did not refuse the premiership. I based my acceptance of the premiership on a few conditions that would dilute the powers of the executive presidency - greater transparency, greater democracy, greater accountability, greater democratisation of the process, to which the President/ex-President did not agree," he argued.