Mahinda's victory inevitable - D. M. Jayaratne

by L. B. Wijayasiri in Kandy

Whatever the false and malicious propaganda campaigns carried out by the UNP and their electronic and print media allies, the victory of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse would be inevitable said Posts and Telecommunication and Udarata Development Minister D. M. Jayaratne in Kandy. At a meeting of trade union activists at the Postal Auditorium Kandy organised by Kandy district joint committee of trade unions representing State and private sectors.

The intellectual community in the country should come forward to guide the people in general and those misguided sections on the correct path, to ensure the Prime Ministers victory at the forthcoming Presidential Election more comfortable, without being silent spectators, said Minister Jayaratne.

Minister Jayaratne added that the UNP and their media allies were giving distorted and wrong interpretations to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse's getting the support of JVP and the Hela Urumaya in his Presidential Election campaign.

Those who try to misinterpretate their participation do so without knowing the political history. It was not the first time that the SLFP got into alliance with other political parties and groups.

The people should go into the history of political parties and groups now with the UNP so that they could realise that the UNP's criticism on JVP and JHU alliance with the SLFP were baseless but politically motivated allegations he said. Labour and Vocational Training Minister Athauda Seneviratne said that the UNP was loosing the support of ordinary Tamil and Muslim people since they have lost their confidence in the credibility of their leaders Arumugam Thondaman and Rauf Hakeem respectively. Support of Muslims of the East was being diverted from the UNP to Prime Minister Rajapakse mainly because UNP leaders' supporting the LTTE who had severely harassed Muslims.

Deputy Minister of Power and Energy and Poverty Alleviation Mahindananda Aluthgamage, President Public Service Trade Union Federation W. H. Piyadasa, LGSU President Jayaratne Maliyagoda, Eksath Sewaka Sangamaya President Raja Uswetakeiyawa and B. C. Weerasekera also spoke.