JHU to contest in five districts

Chamikara Weerasinghe

Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) yesterday announced that its Central Committee and Supreme Council have unanimously decided to contest five districts in the forthcoming General Election to be held on April 8.

Jathika Hela Urumaya Progaganda Secretary Nishantha Warnasinghe said they will contest in the districts, Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutara, Kurunegala and Kandy.

JHU Minister Champika Ranawaka has been appointed to contest for the Colombo district .The party’s National Organizer and Parliamentary Group Leader Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera has been appointed as the candidate for Gampaha district, said Warnasinghe.

Lawyer M.C. Jayaratna will contest from Kurunegala, District Organizer and Pradeshiya Sabha Member Thushara Swarnatilleke from Kandy and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s Public Relations Officer and Flight Lieutinent Shantha Jayatilleke will contest from Kalutara.

Warnasinghe said the Party has proposed the names of JHU Leader Ven Ellawala Medhananda Thera and the party’s General Secretary Dr. Omalpe Sobhitha Thera to be included in the National List.

He said the JHU will have a poster and polythene free election campaign as usual.

“We expect the public to show their gratitude to the party on the basis of what we have done to protect the country’s unitary status as with our political ideology to defeat terrorism which we have maintained so firmly right from the start,” he said.

We also want the public to consider our service done in regard to promoting a country free of alcohol and other drugs, he said. We also ask the public to take into account the perseverance we have displayed in handling external pressure in the country’s fight against terrorism, he added.