Namal commended for visiting Kilinochchi

Parliamentarian Sri Ranga on Monday commended Hambantota District MP Namal Rajapaksa for visiting Kilinochchi regularly and looking into the needs of the innocent people there despite him being a member representing a Southern most electorate. Peoples representatives should always endeavour to make the people victorious by catering to their common needs without trying to work according to their own personal agendas, he said.

Sri Ranga expressed these sentiments when he joined a group of MPs led by Namal Rajapaksa on a visit to Killinochchi to look into the needs of resettled people who had faced untold hardship owing to the thirty year war.

Sri Ranga said apart from peoples representatives the unstinted support of the people was also essential for the success of speedy development programs launched by the Government in their regions battered by a thirty year war.

He said children of certain TNA Parliamentarians did not undergo any suffering due to the war because they studied in India or UK at that time. However as Parliamentarians they should treat other people's children as their own.

It was the bounden duty of members who got elected to Parliament through the votes of people subjected to the war to visit their areas and cater to their needs as a matter of priority. He said the things the country lost on account of the war cannot be regained in a matter of few day. It would take sometime to recover them and regain life as the necessary plans are now in place.

Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa said as MPs their endeavour was to come to the aid of people who underwent suffering owing to the war rather than trying to cash-in on their votes. Parliamentarians Chandrakumar, Uditha Lokubandara, Kanaka Herath and Shehan Semasinghe were also present on the occasion.