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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12865590" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRDkflMJtdRZBLdMK-1yKLLU-IIggOMLGb34Vy8kSLi9GkSm8mp" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sri Lanka's former army chief Sarath Fonseka said Thursday that he aimed  to topple the government and create a new political culture, ruling out  any possibility of working with President Mahinda Rajapaksa.Speaking at the first press conference since his conditional release  from jail May 12, Fonseka was upbeat about his role and insisted that he  would work with a common opposition to defeat the government, Xinhua  reported. "There is a corrupt government and a corrupt political culture so we  have to first get rid of the corrupt government. If we want to benefit  from the new political culture I am talking about, we will have to  topple the government and then we have to come into power and implement  this new political culture," he said. Talking to the media, he also categorically ruled out joining the  government or working with President Mahinda Rajapaksa as he said the  president "could not be trusted". He called on the opposition to unite  and accept a leader that will be picked by the people. Though under the conditions of Fonseka's release he cannot contest in an  election for seven years, he said that with people's support he would  be able to overcome this hurdle. The relationship between Fonseka and the government became strained  after he retired from the military in late 2009 and announced his  candidature for the presidential election. Fonseka contested as the leader of an opposition coalition but lost the  election. He was later arrested and jailed over various charges,  including illegal arms deals, harbouring army deserters and making  allegations to the media that soldiers had shot unarmed rebel cadres. Fonseka was freed from prison last month on a presidential pardon but  still faces trial in a case involving harbouring of army deserters. IANS</blockquote>

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