Mangala owes Rs 18m to SLRC
Nadira Gunatilleke
According to the COPE report Rs 18 million is due to the SLRC from
UNP MP Mangala Samaraweera while the same report says. SLFP paid the
SLRC Rs 166,175, Youth Affairs Minister Dullas Alahapperuma said.
Minister Alahapperuma was addressing the weekly SLFP press briefing at
the Mahaweli Centre Auditorium yesterday. He said that while the
Government is carrying out its election campaign as usual aiming at
winning the LG Polls to be held on March 17 the Opposition is carrying
out its ‘campaign’ aimed at the April 12 political ‘operation’. A
message from President Mahinda Rajapaksa will reach all homes from today
(2nd).
Youth Affairs and Skills Development Minister Dullas
Alahapperuma addressing an SLFP press conference at the
Mahaweli Centre, Colombo yesterday. Sports Minister
Mahindananda Aluthgamage and A H M Azwer, MP were also
present. Picture by Thushara Fernando |
District summits will take place till March 14 covering all
districts. The Government will make this LG Polls the last one to be
conducted under the present system.
Now the Opposition requests the European Commission to monitor LG
Polls but it was the UNP which conducted the most corrupt LG Polls in
Sri Lankan history in 1991. The Opposition Leader says the late Prime
Minister SWRD Bandaranaike’s statue to be sold out but in 1977 his
supporters crushed the SWRD statue located at Orugodawatta roundabout,
dragged it on the road and dumped into a river, the Minister said.
It is President Mahinda Rajapaksa who minimized the gap between the
village and town. Today fish from Batticaloa is available at Kurunegala
by 9 am and students from Trincomalee attend tuition classes at
Kurunegala. Since 1505 Sri Lanka was a dependent country of the West.
President Rajapaksa saved the country from this dependency and slavish
mentality. Because of this today the country has a few local enemies and
many foreign enemies.
Now the Opposition members travel on the A9 road freely using super
luxury buses and talk about Jaffna residents’ human rights but they do
not have the right to do so because they killed and burned Tamil people
during the Black July and set fire to the Jaffna library. It was the UNP
goons who travelled to Jaffna who voted on behalf of Jaffna residents.
They use a term Nidahase Vilapaya these two words do not match. We never
say the moaning of democracy, the Minister pointed out.
Once the Government launch 1,000,000 home garden program every family
will be able to face any type of food shortage. The Opposition had never
addressed people’s intelligence or at least their hearts. They always
appealed to their hunger and as usual they are doing the same again.
Earlier the Opposition Leader was playing the role of Kopi Kade
teledrama’s Dingi Mahaththaya and now he is playing the role of ‘Suwanda’.
He is entertaining the public and collecting votes for the Government.
The whole world including US President Barak Obama was helpless when
natural disasters hit countries. But the Sri Lankan Government will walk
forward in the middle of all these hazards, the Minister added. |