Rajapaksas no strangers to Attanagalla - President
Sandasen MARASINGHE
President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday stated Rajapaksas were not
unfamiliar to Attangalla recalling that it was D.A. Rajapaksa who left
the UNP with S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike to establish the SLFP.
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A section of the massive crowd at the upfa Nittambuwa rally
yesterday. Picture by Chaminda Hittetiya |
He made this observation at a rally held at the Nittambuwa Public
Grounds yesterday.
President Rajapaksa further stated the relationship between
Rajapaksas in Giruwaya and Bandaranaikes in Attanagalla was so strong
and as a son of D.A. Rajapaksa he felt his arrival at Attanagalla as if
he ment to Beliatta in Giruwaya. He also recalled late Prime Minister
Sirimavo Bandaranaike and said she appointed him as the Beliatta SLFP
Organizer in 1967 and she was a mother to me.
The President also remarked that the massive crowd in Nittambuwa is a
sign of his great victory at the Presidential Election on January 26.
President Rajapaksa warned that the people should be very careful in
voting at this election. He referring to the development in the
Attanagalla stated that the muddy roads in Attanagalla four years ago
have been carpeted now. President Mahinda Rajapaksa also stated that he
nullified the agreement between the LTTE and Ranil with a single pen
stroke and it was the responsibility of the people of this country to
nullify the present agreement between Sampanthan and Ranil on January
26.
Parliamentarian Ven Athuraliye Rathana Thera, Ministers Dinesh
Gunawardena, Bandula Gunawardena, Johnston Fernando, Mervyn Silva and
Sarana Gunawardena MP, actor Ravindra Randeniya and singer Rukantha
Gunatilleke also addressed the rally. |
