Unemployment to be solved in six years

Sanjaya Asela Maturata and Tennakoon Kulasekara

The Government will definitely eradicate unemployment in this country within the next six years, said UPFA Kandy District candidate and Udunuwara SLFP Chief Organiser S. B. Dissanayake.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has the farsighted leadership to overcome the challenge of raising this country to the highest pedestal of development, he said.

He was addressing members of the Yatinuwara Teachers' Union affiliated to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party at a meeting at the Urapola Sri Abhayaraja Piriven Viharaya, Pilimatalawa recently.

Dissanayake said the people should provide the President with a strong Parliament to assist him to overcome this challenge by giving the UPFA a two thirds majority.

This would also enable the President to change the Preferential Vote System which had been a heavy burden on the country Dissanayake said the Yatinuwara Teachers' Union was the strongest such union in the Kandy district affiliated to the SLFP.

The teacher profession provided the guidance to the nation and there was no necessity to teach politics to the teachers because they were fully conversant with the subject, he said. Central Province Governor Tikiri Kobbekaduwa and several others also spoke.