PM's manifesto based on indigenous thinking - Sarath Ekanayake

by L. B. Wijayasiri in Kandy

Central Province Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake said that the victory of Alliance presidential candidate Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse would be the victory of the people of this country.

His election manifesto was based on the indigenous thinking he had been inherited from his patriotic ancestors. He was committed to protect the basic rights of people of all ethnic and religious groups.

The UNP candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe was committed to adhere to the demands of the LTTE who were fighting to devide the country.

The UNP who removed the ban imposed on the LTTE was now agitate for the removal of travel restrictions imposed on the LTTE by European Union. They imposed those restrictions on an appeal made by President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.

The Chief Minister said so at a meeting held in Hasalaka in Uda Dumbara recently. He added that Ranil Wickremesinghe had said that the European Union ban on the LTTE did not have any relevance to him.

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse has pledged to have direct dialogue with the LTTE with the view to usher in lasting honourable peace so that the rights of all the people were protected and all could live in harmony.

Ranil Wickremesinghe who did not give employment to unemployed youth during his two year rule and issued circulars to stop recruiting employees to public sector was now promising to provide jobs to the youth. But the young men and women could not be deceived by those false promises, he said.