Opposition making empty slogans -Vasu
Lakshmi DE SILVA
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Vasudeva Nanayakkara |
The opposition political parties and some groups were making empty
slogans against the results of the Presidential elections. Such things
were not needed in a democratic system and if they had any substance to
support their claims they should collect valid information and recourse
to legal steps, Democratic Leftist Front Leader Vasudeva Nanayakkara
said.
He was addressing a press conference the Socialist Alliance held at
the Dr. N.M. Perera Centre, Borella to explain the future plans of the
alliance in the forthcoming parliamentary election. However, the
presidential election result was a resounding victory and cannot be
challenged because it was conducted according to the proper norms of the
election law and the physical counting vote was also done properly
according to law he said. The retired General-JVP coalition seemed to be
moving towards a suspicious direction worse than the dictatorial
direction taken by the governments especially after 1978. It was going
to create problems for the democratic system of government, he noted.
A General Election is a vibrant function of democracy and we all
should protect it, Nanayakkara noted.
LSSP leader Prof Tissa Vitarana said the UPFA government was able to
implement rural development policies and also save the economy from
experiencing a rebound of the global economic downturn. The non-aligned
foreign policy adopted by the government has also helped the country. |
