UNP subscribed to international pressure - Manusha Nanayakkara

Nihal JAYAWARDENE

Our motherland has been subjected to increased international pressure in recent times and my party, the UNP too had unwittingly subscribed to it said Galle district UNP Parliamentarian Manusha Nanayakkara on Tuesday who crossed over and voted with the government in support of the 18th Amendment.

Some of our own party men had worked underhand to induce the European Union to deny the country the GSP plus facility for its exports as evidenced by him during his recent foreign tour, he said.

Nanayakkara said this when he called on the Most Ven Tibbotuwawe Sri Siddhartha Mahanayake Thera of the Malwatte Chapter at the Malwatte Viharaya in Kandy and received his blessings.

Nanayakkara said he joined the Government as he considered it a bounden duty of young MPs like him to be of real service to their electors. The massive development work undertaken by the Government in the Southern Province induced him to join the Government and create the necessary foundation to serve his Constituents and the people in the region.

The Mahanayake Thera in reply said the people today faced problems regarding the safety of their food. While the consumption of flour based products were being discouraged, problems have cropped up about the quality of various varieties of rice available in the market following revelations made by certain sections of the media. The Manahayake Thera requested Nanayakkara as a former media personality to use his good offices to persuade these sections of the media to refrain from confusing the people by giving undue publicity to such reports.