Opportunity for people to show their gratitude - Thera
The UPFA Colombo District campaign office was opened at 115,
Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 7 by Chief Government Whip and Urban
Development and Sacred Area Development Minister Dinesh Gunawardena
yesterday.
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The UPFA Colombo Presidential Election Campaign Office was
opened at 115, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 7 by Mahajana
Eksath Peramuna Leader and Colombo District UPFA
Presidential Election Campaign Leader Dinesh Gunawaudena
yesterday. Here Western Province Governor Alavi Moulana,
Housing Minister Geethanjana Gunawardena, Presidential
Advisor A. H. M. Azwer, former MP Somaweera Chandrasiri,
Professor Nalin de Silva, Attorney-at-Law Hariguptha
Rohanadeera, Western Provincial Council former Minister
Gamini Thilakasiri and Mahajana Eksath Peramuna Vice
Chairman Yadamin Gunawardena attending the ceremony together
with Minister Gunawardena. |
Addressing the UPFA officials and activists of the district Ven Elle
Gunawansa Thera in his sermon said, the forthcoming Presidential
Election was more than an election, an opportunity for the people of
this country to express their appreciation and gratitude to President
Mahinda Rajapaksa who liberated the country from the terrorists ending a
three-decade era of blood, tears and destruction of human lives.
According to the teachings of Buddhism the Buddha who achieved supreme
enlightenment under the shade of the Bo tree spent seven days looking at
the tree that gave him comfort for seven days in gratitude.
Minister Gunawardena said the campaign office was in fact a symbol of
great victory for President Rajapaksa during an era that will be
recorded in the history of the country in golden letters.
Those anti national forces that barred the liberation of the country
were spending sleepless nights even now to destabilize the country. But
the people of the country even in the remotest villages were aware they
should protect the country by electing President Rajapaksa for a second
term of office. There was not the slightest doubt that the President
will achieve a great victory on January 26, next year.
Members of the Buddhist clergy including Ven Assaji Thera, Provincial
Council members Thilanga Sumathipala, Gamini Tilakasiri, Renuka Perera,
Mahesh Almeida, Lionel Kariyawasam, Sulochana Gamage,Omar Kamil, Willie
Gamage, former UNP Member of Parliament Lilantha Perera, Prof Nalin de
Silva and many Colombo Municipal Council members were present. |
