Former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen on June 28 testified before the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) looking into the Easter Sunday serial blasts said one of the suicide bombers who blew himself up in one of the attacks had been his party’s assistant Treasurer Alawdeen's son in law, reports Daily Mirror. Bathiudeen, however, said that he had not associated with this terror group member at any time. “I got to know from Alawdeen that his son in law had informed his daughter that he was going to Zambia. He had later messaged his wife and said he is in Dubai. Then he had sent a text again the following day and had informed that he was in Kenya. However we found out later that he was one of the bombers who carried out one of the attacks on April 21 2019. Nether the wife of the bomber nor his father in law had known about it,” Mr. Bathiudeen said.The former MP said that the ideology of Islamic State and National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ) was against Islamism. He said he had already expressed his regrets to Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith on the Easter Sunday attacks. “We are ready to work with all religious leaders and the armed forces to eradicate terrorism and extremism in Sri Lanka.”