President a blessing

Prime Minister D M Jayaratne in a congratulatory message to President Mahinda Rajapaksa on the swearing-in to the presidency for a second term and on the President’s birthday states:

“I, as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, extend my heartiest and warmth compliments both on the occasion of Swearing-in Presidency for a second term as well as on the birthday of the greatest leader ever born in Sri Lanka since independence.

Prime Minister D M Jayaratne

“It is the wisdom and commitment of a leader that makes the people to raise him to that high office, to defence him and even to let him continue, when there are hundreds and thousands of politicians who make their way to power with the support of the public.

I never think it is verbose and flattering to call President Mahinda Rajapaksa, a Great Man of the Era and a blessing to the whole nation.

Liberating both Sri Lanka and a population of twenty million from an ill-fated thirty-year long war alone, would be sufficient to demonstrate the unshaken leadership of him.

The commitment he displayed by identifying pioneer development projects and securing necessary funds to implement them while the war was at its high was so great towards assuring a tomorrow for the people and a prosperous future for the country.

“The Port of ‘Magampura’ which was constructed according to an innovative concept of the President could be called an entry point to our common dream of making this little island the ‘Wonder of Asia’.

The coal power plant of Norochcholai, the electricity power project of Moragahakanda and the international airport of Mattala are not dreams of this Great Leader alone but something our future generation would experience in their real life.

“I do not think it is a debatable fact to call him the ‘Father of Principle’, not only of our younger generation but also of the elder generation as well, as he is someone who follows up the motto that a leader who is truly chosen by the people, differentiating him as a ‘Subject of the People’ and not a ‘Boss or the Head of the People’, should necessarily play his role accordingly.

“May this birthday be a Healthy and a Sorrow-Free one for the Great Survivor who cause to create a ‘ray of hope’ throughout an island once torn apart!

“You are the ‘Giant Tree’ that would give shade to the whole nation for an eternal period with the blessing of our people. May you live long!”