UPF decides to vote President

M.P. Muttiah

Upcountry People’s Front leader and Community Development and Social Inequity Eradication Minister P. Chandrasekeran said that his party would support President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the forthcoming Presidential Election.

He said that to ensure the future political rights and guarantee social emancipation of the upcountry people, his party forwarded several basic demands to all candidates contesting the Presidential Election.

According to the Minister the demands were, the abolishing of the century-old line system and build separate houses for the plantation workers, solving the unemployment problem of the younger generation, encouraging the upcountry society in the economic field and providing opportunities to eradicate backwardness.

Minister Chandrasekeran said he had requested the Government to establish new Divisional Secretariats and local government institutions which could increase the representation in accordance with the plantation population. Implementation of Tamil Language should not be in words but in deed.

The UPF has also requested the Government to establish a separate Tamil University in the Nuwera-Eliya District for the benefit of the plantation community.

The UPF leader assured that his party would work for the unity and mutual understanding of all three communities in the country.

Minister Chandrasekeran addressing his party-men said that the plantation workers should consider the Presidential Election that would be crucial for the destiny of the community and use their votes wisely to elect President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Meanwhile, Senior Presidential Adviser and Parliamentarian Basil Rajapaksa also addressed the UPF members in Talawakelle yesterday.