President assures facilities to provincial journalists

Nimal Wijesinghe Anuradhapura Additional District Group Correspondent

President Mahinda Rajapaksa told Anuradhapura district provincial media personnel that every facility will be made available for the media to continue their task of contributing to the country’s future prosperity and creating a virtuous society.

The President yesterday hosted the UPFA activists and top ranking Government officials, Provincial Council members and Pradeshiya Sabha Chairmen, provincial journalists and village level election campaigners who worked towards the holding of a free and fair Presidential election, where he won a landslide victory.

President Rajapaksa accompanied by North Central Governor Karunaratne Divulgane, Ministers S. M. Chandrasena, Duminda Dissanayake and North Central Chief Minister Berty Premalal Dissanayake, freely mingled with those present at the President’s House in Anuradhapura.

The media personnel told the President that the sacred city would have become a pool of blood if the President had lost the elections.

They urged the President to look into the numerous difficulties and hardships faced by provincial journalists.