Mr. Ashroff’s SLMC was born because the traditional Muslim politicians like Dr. Kalil, Razik Fareed,Mohamed, Bakeer marickar and so on continued to pay lip service to Sinhalese political leaders and cheat the Muslim community to achieve their own personal ends. They simply remained ‘yesmen’ to successive govt’s except a man like badiuddin mahmood. Mr. Ashcroft was self centred with his Batticaloa votes and the Muslims from the south never accepted mr.Ashroff or his SLMC. But Shroff ruined the century old cordial relationship between the Sinhalese