Divisive forces will be defeated - Keheliya

Indika Polkotuwa

Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, said at a SLFP - Yatinuwara branch organisers meeting in Kandy recently, that the government would get the two thirds majority at the forthcoming Parliament election and change the present Constitution to make way for a people friendly Constitution for the country.

The Minister said that the present Constitution of J. R. Jayewardene had created several crises and added the need had arisen to change it for the betterment of the people in the country.

Though terrorism is no more in this country, certain elements of divisive forces are still active here. The way this terrorism and divisive elements suffered at the Presidential election, these divisive forces will be totally wiped out of this country at the forthcoming General Election.

We have now ended the nightmarish days in the country with the elimination of terrorism. Today we can think and live with the hope of a better tomorrow in the country.

For the past three decades, we were bad losers not only before Prabakaran, but also before the entire world.

This hill country is highly significant in its historic past. I will make every effort to maintain this grandeur in all ways. I have already drawn up a plan to initiate a 1.2 billion dollar foreign investment in this district.

Central Provincial Councillors A. G. Sirisena, Goonathilake Rajapakse, Yatinuwara former SLFP organiser D. Karunaratne Kadugannawa, Urban Council Opposition leader Sisira Abeywickrema and Councillor Dhanapala Heenatigala also addressed the occasion.