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Ending terrorism adequate for President's re-election

Nimal Wijesinghe - Anuradhapura Additional District Group Correspondent

The eradication of LTTE terrorists who attacked the Anuradhapura Sacred Bo-Tree and massacred hundreds of pilgrims was quite adequate for the people to usher President Mahinda Rajapaksa into his second term of office at the forthcoming Presidential Elections, said Foreign Employment Promotion Minister Keheliya Rambukwella.

He said so participating at the annual 'Great Bodhi Tree pilgrimage and Bodhi Wandana Perahera' opposite the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi, Anuradhapura yesterday.

The religious observances had been arranged for the commemoration of the completion of 2,317 year since the bringing of the sacred Bo sapling from India and the completion of 40 years for the construction of Ran Weta (Gold Fence).

Rambukwella, said it was marvellous and splendid to watch that devotees belonging to whatever religion were completely free and at liberty to travel to any corner of the country and worship the Shrine rooms as they wish, a facility of which people had been deprived of before May 18. He said the people of the country irrespective of their nationality religion, cast creed or race have been made the true heirs of the country.