Mangala tells SLFPers :

Don't fall for Ranil's crocodile tears

UNP leader and Presidential Candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe's present call to SLFP to cooperate with him after his assuming office as the next President only reminds one, of the story of a jackal seeking to protect a fowl run, states a media release by the SLFP Presidential Election Campaign Coordinator Mangala Samaraweera.

Ridiculing this call as a premonition of Ranil Wickremesinghe's pending defeat, Mangala Samaraweera states that the SLFP supporters who remember too well the past history of the Wijewardene dynasty's attempts to destroy the SLFP from its very inception will not be so knave or gullible as to take up his ruse of protecting the SLFP supporters and vote for him at the forthcoming Presidential Election.

J. R. Jayewardene, the political mentor of Ranil Wickremesinghe was among those who put up both hands to abolish civic rights of late Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike. Ranil Wickremesinghe was in the vanguard in the Naxalite Campaign against Vijaya Kumaratunga in 1982.

He was the first to announce this allegation against Vijaya Kumaratunga in Parliament. Ranil Wickremesinghe's aversion against Bandaranaike family was clearly demonstrated when Ranil, as the then Education Minister denied Vimukthi Kumaratunga's school admission.

During the period the present President was striving to reintegrate the SLFP, in 1994, conspiracies against that effort became No.1 in the political agenda of Ranil Wickremesinghe. That exercise culminated in a conspiracy to make an attempt on her life.

Ranil Wickremesinghe, after coming in to power in 2001 destroyed the dwellings of 4000 SLFP supporters and victimised over 25,000 employees who were SLFP supporters and it is the same Ranil who now speaks of protection to SLFP supporters, stated Samaraweera's media release.

While enumerating the massive support behind SLFP Presidential Candidate Mahinda Rajapakse, the release urged the true membership of the SLFP not to get deceived by the crocodile tears of Ranil Wickremesinghe. The media release expressed confidence in the sure victory of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse on November 17.