Congress to force Government into early poll

Rasika Somarathna

COLOMBO: The National Congress (NC) yesterday declared that it would force the Government to go for a general election at the earliest opportunity.

Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe addressing the media said that the NC would combine forces irrespective of ideological differences to uphold the people’s supremacy, in the face of Government’s failure to deliver on many fronts.

He said that the NC would launch awareness campaigns and protest campaigns starting at grassroots level throughout the country while adding that the intention was to topple the Government as soon as possible.

MP Mangala Samaraweera said that in the short span of three months since its inception, the NC had been able to create a big impact in the Sri Lankan political arena.

Predicting that the NC forming the next Government was a foregone conclusion, Samaraweera said that the only question was when , and hinted out that it would be sooner rather than later.

“This is not an attempt to merely grab power, but a campaign to heed to the request of the masses in bringing out a total revolution in politics by establishing a new political culture” Samaraweera added.

While observing that the NC would hold talks with all political parties in view of possible alliances, Samaraweera said that the NC was already in the process of finalising an accelerated development programme upto 2020.