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Development challenge easy for me - President

*First Presidential election after war victory:

*Fulfilled aspirations to reunite Motherland

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said he succeeded in crushing LTTE terrorism and he is confident of developing the country to create a better future for the younger generation.

“I carried out the most arduous exercise of eradicating terrorism in the country and I will win the development war to create better future for our posterity”, he said.

President Rajapaksa expressed these sentiments to the media after handing over of nomination papers for the upcoming Presidential election at the Elections Secretariat yesterday. A host of Government Ministers and senior party members were present on the occasion.

He said the people of this country assigned him with a special task of reuniting the Motherland and he was able to achieve what the people expected from him.

“It is not difficult for me to meet the challenges of development if terrorism was crushed within four years.

He said the Government has a bounden duty to make the country stable economically.

“I gave proper leadership to eradicate terrorism which had engulfed the country for decades.

The country is going for a Presidential election for the first time after terrorism was wiped out from the country and President Mahinda Rajapaksa expresed his intent to seek a fresh Presidential Poll.

Candidates from 18 recognized political parties and five independent groups handed over nominations for the Presidential Polls to the Elections Commissioner. The nominations of Peter Nelson Perera from the Sri Lanka Progressive Front was rejected by the Elections Commissioner.

The Elections Commissioner said he had to reject the nomination for Nelson Perera after a thorough investigation into the objections. Another objection was raised against the nominations of MC Mohammed Ismail of the Democratic United National Front.

Ismail is contesting the upcoming Presidential election under the symbol of Eagle.

The Elections Commissioner ruled out the objections. The Election Commissioner has received objections against the nominations of three candidates. Former Kandy District MP Sarath Kongahage raising an objection to the nomination of Former CDS General Sarath Fonseka said that he is a citizen in the United States and he is contravening the Constitution by contesting the forthcoming election. However, he failed to substantiate how the Constitution has been violated.

The Elections Commissioner overruled his objections and stressed that any problem with regard to the nomination of Sarath Fonseka can be solved through the judiciary.

U.B. Wijekoon from the National Development Front , Deshabandu A.S.P. Liyanage from the Sri Lanka Labour Party and Aruna Soyza from Ruhunu Janatha Party are among the 22 candidates who handed over nominations for the upcoming Presidential elelcton.

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