Sri Lanka, Aug. 4 -- "I will die, but not alone, I was a guerrilla," former JVP Parliamentarian and candidate for the 1999 Presidential election Nandana Gunathilake has warned in a Facebook post, citing his possible predicament in case the government deprives the former MPs of their pension.

He says he draws only a monthly pension of Rs. 68,000 as a former MP out of which only around Rs. 800 is left for his monthly meals after paying rent for the house he lives in, other utility bills and expenses being for his medications.

"There are over 200 such former MPs who represent the UNP, SLFP, JVP and Tamil parties in Parliament" Gunathilake claimed.

"We will have to commit suicide as the July strikers did. This is the plight of those engage...