Violent acts incited by opposition agents - Ven. Omalpe
Lakshmi DE SILVA
The freedom from fear won by the supreme sacrifice of thousands of
the Security Forces was being threatened by anti-national forces
conspiring to take those valiant members of the Forces before
international war crimes. This was a shameful activity that should be
denounced by the people, Jatika Hela Urumaya General Secretary Ven Dr.
Omalpe Sobhitha Thera said yesterday.
Addressing the UPFA press conference at the Mahaweli Centre, Colombo,
he said if there were incidents of violence as reported in the news
these acts were committed to discredit the government and the President
by certain paid agents of the Opposition who had been placed among the
UPFA supporters with nefarious intent.
“On the other hand, acts of violence perpetrated by the Opposition
were intended to give an impression before the world that the democratic
election process in the country was fraught with violence. We caution
those engaged in such acts to stop it as the country had experienced
enough violence with the terrorists,” Ven. Sobhitha Thera said.
Environment and Natural Resources Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka
said the abolition of the Executive Presidency was a piecemeal proposal
as the whole electoral and legislature system had to be changed.
The electoral system with the preference voting system abolished and
Jana Sabha at the village level started in its place to allow people to
determine their own affairs, like in the Gam Sabha system. The
legislation to make these changes would be brought before parliament
shortly. Answering a query Western Provincial Council Minister Udaya
Gammanpila said anyone who resorts to violence even from within the UPFA
ranks is also carrying out a contract of the Opposition. Those who
resort to such acts were definitely working for the Opposition
The opposition believing that the Tamil National Alliance has a voter
base of 130,000 votes in the north had agreed to betray the country but
the people of the north do not back the TNA as they were aware about the
services rendered to the people of the north by President Mahinda
Rajapaksa. The people of the North would support President Rajapaksa as
they cannot be deceived by the opportunistic politicians in the
Opposition, he also said. |