Dr. Dayan Jayatilleke, a key ideologue of the Rajapaksa camp, criticized former President Mahinda Rajapaksa's move to meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the latter's recent visit to Sri Lanka. 

"My criticism is directed at the former President for meeting Modi, at this juncture," the former diplomat said, in a recent television interview. 

"It's not that India saw the Joint Opposition May Day rally and invited Rajapaksa for a meeting. In fact, the former President requested for a meeting," he added. 

"It seems like those who gave wrong foreign policy advice to the former President during his second term are still around him," Jayatilleke, Sri Lanka's  Permanent Representative to Geneva during the final phase of Eelam war, said. 

Rajapaksa met Modi against the backdrop where the former President's ally, Wimal Weerawansa, had urged the public to Houston black flags in protest of the Indian Prime Minister's visit.