UPFA campaigns in estate sector

Mahaweli Systems correspondent

The United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) has launched a special election campaign to get the support of estate workers for its victory in the up coming Central Provincial Council election - which falls on February 14.

The UPFA believes that it can rely on estate workers support in the Central Provincial Council election because the present UPFA Government, has done a satisfactory service to estate workers of the country.

In line with this special election campaign, a cluster of UPFA offices are to be located in the tea, rubber and cocoa plantations of the Kandy, Matale and Nuwara-Eliya districts during the pre-election period to coordinate UPFA propaganda.

Meanwhile, local UPFA functionaries and supporters are to go far afield to meet the estate workers in the neighbouring areas, propagating UPFA policies and urging support and to vote for UPFA candidates in the fray.

UPFA election campaigners think that most estate workers and their families have never been further afield than the neighbouring towns, and as a result, they have no comprehensive understanding of what is happening elsewhere in terms of political developments or other development work under the UPFA leadership and guidance.