UPFA gained huge ground after 2005

Lakshmi de Silva

The number of Parliamentarians of the UPFA which was only 88 in 2005 had increased to 129 and at the Local Government and Provincial Council levels we have been able to become the majority political alliance elected by the people under the leadership of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, UPFA General Secretary and Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said at a press conference at the Mahaweli Centre, Colombo yesterday.

President Rajapaksa’s policies embraced all ethnic groups and he respected and helped all national religions thus winning the confidence of all. He is a leader who accomplished what most people thought could not be achieved and he will win the Presidential Election with a distinguished majority creating a record, he said.

Explaining the Opposition stance on elections he said certain Western forces that aims to destabilize the country are behind the Opposition and the record of the main opposition party the UNP was dismal. During the 1982 DDC election what the UNP did was too well-known. The UNP and certain other groups have aligned themselves with certain forces but they cannot defeat President Rajapaksa as he was the people’s choice.