Three UNP Western Provincial Councillors to support Govt

Rohan Mathes

Three UNP Western Provincial Councillors have pledged to support the Government.

Following meetings with President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees on Monday and Tuesday (12 and 13), the three UNP Provincial Councillors Duminda Silva, the son of former UNP Minister Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi Janaka Mallimarachchi and Anil Kumara Wijesinghe have decided to render their fullest support and co-operation to President Rajapaksa’s Government in all their future endeavours.

The three Provincial Councillors were of the view that they would join hands with President Rajapaksa’s regime to defeat terrorism and achieve honourable peace accepted by all communities of the country.

They were also of the view that they should fully assist in the implementation of the ‘Mahinda Chintana’ policies to develop the national economy.

The Government’s recent budget proposals have provided much relief to the poorer rural sectors. They have taken measures to strengthen the country’s Co-operative Movement, the agricultural sector and provided the necessary subsidies as well. They have refrained from increasing fuel prices despite oil price hikes in the global markets.

Having realised that they were in a party which had only a programme of envy and jealousy and offered no political future or prospects for them, they decided to join President Rajapaksa’s Government and serve the people.

Provincial Councillor Janaka Mallimarachchi who expressed his views had noted that the present government had selected the right option of defeating terrorism of the LTTE who had killed his father and several other UNP leaders.