Politicians must serve people or be rejected - Provincial Councillor

Matale district group correspondent

The people's representatives are servants of the public and not their masters. All people's representatives who want to remain in the political arena should understand and cater to the needs of the common masses, otherwise they will be rejected by the people, said Matale district SLFP organiser and Provincial Councillor L. D. Nimalasiri.

He said this after opening a new bridge for the public in Nikgollayaya area in Dambulla P. S. division.

Nimalasiri said that the Government has taken every possible step to develop the infrastructure facilities in rural areas with the aim of promoting the living standard of the low income families according to that a number of development projects have been initiated centralizing the rural areas.

He said we have enough resources to develop our country but during the regime of the United National Party the majority of these resources were given to the private sector, as a result now the entire nation has to face an economic crisis.

Nimalasiri said development programmes have been launched covering the entire rural areas by the Government. Under this situation job opportunities are being generated and food producttion activities are considerably improved.

He said within a short period the entire common development activities in the country will be attended too by the Government.

H. M. Tennakoon Banda and Mrs. I. G. Sumanawathi also spoke.