UPFA gained huge ground after 2005
Lakshmi de Silva
The number of Parliamentarians of the UPFA which was only 88 in 2005
had increased to 129 and at the Local Government and Provincial Council
levels we have been able to become the majority political alliance
elected by the people under the leadership of President Mahinda
Rajapaksa, UPFA General Secretary and Education Minister Susil
Premajayantha said at a press conference at the Mahaweli Centre, Colombo
yesterday.
President Rajapaksa’s policies embraced all ethnic groups and he
respected and helped all national religions thus winning the confidence
of all. He is a leader who accomplished what most people thought could
not be achieved and he will win the Presidential Election with a
distinguished majority creating a record, he said.
Explaining the Opposition stance on elections he said certain Western
forces that aims to destabilize the country are behind the Opposition
and the record of the main opposition party the UNP was dismal. During
the 1982 DDC election what the UNP did was too well-known. The UNP and
certain other groups have aligned themselves with certain forces but
they cannot defeat President Rajapaksa as he was the people’s choice.
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