UNP Leader trying to betray country
Chaminda Perera
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. |