Defeated opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka says he never tried to stage a coup to unseat President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The comments came a day after Sri Lanka sacked 12 senior military officers, reportedly loyal to the former army chief, for hatching a political conspiracy during the polls. Fonseka denied he ever tried to stage a coup saying, he just had a couple of police personnel protecting him.<br/><br/>He claimed, they all went to the hotel on January 26, because they got the copies of the assassination plan which was planned by the army headquarters operation branch. <br/><br/>Rajapaksa is also understood to have transferred several senior military officers loyal to the former army general who he defeated in elections.