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| People's mandate must be respected - Gayantha The United National Party in a press release issued yesterday said the proroguing of Parliament engineered by a group of PA MPs who have come under the clutches of the JVPs Tylvin-Wimal clique had prevented the people of this country from reaping the dividends of two years of peace which the government hoped to bestow through increased salaries, enhanced fertilizer subsidies and other economic benefits. The release signed by UNP Media Spokesman Gayantha Karunatilleke said:- A Peoples Alliance Group which had come under the influence of the JVPs Tylvin-Wimal clique has requested the Speaker to refrain from reconvening Parliament. Every country where democracy prevailed is governed according to the people's mandate. People's ideas and views regarding governance is obtained through the people's representatives. People's representatives elected through the people's vote garner people's views regarding governance through Parliament. To enable this Parliament should remain open. This is the essential feature of a democracy. When one looks at the history of the JVP their clamour for the prorogation of Parliament is not strange. But the gravity of the situation is that the PA which is the main opposition party wanting to form the alternative government becoming guilty of the anti-democratic move of proroguing Parliament. The JVP which followed a Hitlerite terrorist policy of killing people who exercised their democratic right to vote and banned people from carrying their dead shoulder high during funerals is once again trying to take the innocent people of this country back to such a wicked era once again by closing down Parliament. The UNP wished to warn members of the PA and their supporters ignorant of this situation about the sinister efforts made by the JVP in league with some of their own members to drag this country back to revolutionary military actions through steps like the proroguing of Parliament. It wished to remind the public that this group led by the JVP had blocked government's efforts to steer the country towards progress by increasing salaries of public servants and other employees and granting enhanced fertilizer subsidies through economic dividends gained during the last two-year period of peace. While emphasising to the people at large and the business community that had shouldered the economic development effort the PA group coming under the revolutionary ideas of the JVP had resorted to anti-democratic moves like proroguing Parliament the UNP would call upon all people who treasure democracy to rally round to defeat these anti-democratic moves and build a prosperous Sri Lanka. |
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