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UNP Leader trying to betray country

Enterprise Development Minister Mano Wijeratne yesterday said UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is attempting to betray the people and the Motherland before the international community to cover up his ineffectiveness.

The Minister expressed these sentiments in response to UNP MP Lakshman Kiriella who has said that the Opposition Leader’s European visit will uphold the people’s democratic rights denied by the Government.

Minister Wijeratne asked whether UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is capable of proving that democracy is threatened in Sri Lanka. What UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and UNP MP Lakshman Kiriella should first do is to establish democracy within the party and educate the members and the public about it.

He said Wickremesinghe is striving to hang on to the leadership with the help of Executive Committee appointed by himself after a series of election defeats.

The Opposition Leader and his cronies are acting as they have been stranded when the Government led by Mahinda Rajapaksa is at the last leg of eradicating terrorism which has plagued the country’s development for decades.

The Minister said the Opposition Leader and his cronies will be thrown into the dustbin of history if they do not support the Government’s endevour to create a unitary state free from terrorism at this crucial juncture.

“MP Lakshman Kiriella joined the party recently and he does not have a better understanding over the basic principles of the party, he said.

Former Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake in his capacity as the Opposition Leader extended his fullest cooperation to former Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike during the 1971 insurgency But UNP MP Lakshaman Kiriella had no knowledge of how UNP leader Dudley Senanayake joined hands with then Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike to uphold the democracy and security in the country.

The Minister said that UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and MP Kiriella should get better understanding on how UNP acted when issues of national importance such as Kachchativu issue and broadening of maritime boundaries came up.

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