Malpractices of JVP will be revealed - Berty Premalal

Nimal WIJESINGHE, Anuradhapura Additional District group correspondent

ANURADHAPURA: Reports of malpractices and corruption in the Ministries headed by JVPers will be released soon, North Central Chief Ministerial Candidate Berty Premalal Dissanayake said.

“The JVP has proved that they are clever only in rhetoric. In the past the JVP was offered key ministerial portfolios such as, Agriculture, Irrigation, Fisheries, Culture and Industries, which ended as utter failures,” he said.

“The restoration of 10,000 tanks was confined only to name boards. The JVP dissolved farmer organisations, substituting them with tank organisations instead, under their relatives and henchmen. Without bank drafts, advances were paid and without retentions, whole estimated sums were settled to the contractors, deviating from the rules and regulations,” Dissanayake said.

He was addressing a press conference at the Anuradhapura Petroleum Corporation’s circuit bungalow on Sunday.

He said there is no future for the United National Party.

“It is heading for virtual downfall. Though they have despatched a retired Army General to fight against me for the Chief Ministerial post he would not succeed. The UNP Chief Ministerial candidate has no base in the province. Janaka Perera is only a war hero and nothing more. There are number of retired Army Generals in the country.

In the circumstances neither be nor the opposition leader is fit to be the Chief Minister. We have fielded the ‘buddy’ of late General Kobbekaduwa, Upali to the forthcoming provincial council elections, Dissanayake said.

He said the SLFP Alliance need not engage in malpractices, or resort to violence to get votes since the people were prepared to usher the SLFP alliance into power resulting from the vast development achieved in the province.

“The North Central Provincial Council has succeeded in changing the traditional life style of the people in the province by empowering their livelihood.

As an example during the last Maha Season, farmers cultivated maize in 60,000 acres to collect a harvest of 120,000 metric tons.

They have earned an income of Rs. 3,600 million. In the once threatened villages from Wilpattu to Polonnaruwa, people enjoy freedom, and all basic living amenities and living without fear as the areas have been liberated from LTTE by war heroes,” Dissanayake said.