More parties to join UPFA for polls - PC Chairman

Stanley Seneviratne Kurunegala North group corr.

Many more political parties will form an alliance with the United People’s Freedom Alliance in ensuring a landslide victory for the Government at the forthcoming Provincial Council elections said Chairman Kurunegala Pradeshiya Sabha Patrick Karunasinghe.

He was addressing a gathering of cross overs from the UNP and JVP who met the Chairman at his residence at Wattegedara, Kohelegedara.

About 2000 UNP and JVP supporters from Indulgoda, Indulgodakanda, Walpolakanda, Wattegedara Ehala and Pahala Mathawa joined the Sri Lanka Freedom Party on this occasion and gave an assurance to support the UPFA at the Wayamba Provincial Councial election.

The Chairman said that during the past the UPFA was the ruling party of the Wayamba Provincial Council and it had fulfilled the peoples needs and the people should be satisfied with the implementation programme.

He said the Wayamba Provincial Council brought up the education level to be second to the Western Province. It had provided textbooks and school equipment equally among all the schools in the province giving special attention to rural schools.

It implemented a properly planned teacher transfer system where the students will be benefited with adequate number of teachers.

“Bringing up the levels of rural hospitals of Wayamba was another task that was focused on. For example it repaired the Kuliyapitiya Hospital at a cost of Rs. 70 million. In addition hospitals at Mathawa, Dambadeniya, Katupotha, Puttalam, Chilaw and Marawila were developed to meet the demand of the public. For the farmers we have repaired and restored 66 minor tanks 11 major irrigational schemes.

“Through the Human Resources Authority, NWPC have provided rural people with soft loan schemes so that they can either build up their self employment schemes. Transportation is another area which it was building up throughout the period.”

He also noted that after the discussions with the Minister of Transport it was able to add 64 schoolbuses to the transport network.

Chairman Karunasinghe said that President Mahinda Rajapaksa has appointed a National Operations Committee last week to kick off the UPFA campaign for the North Western and Central Provincial Councils and the Committee has decided to provide more opportunities for the young politicians in the forthcoming elections.

Several crossovers also spoke.