City cannot be handed over to indisciplined party - PM

The people should think whether a city can be handed over to a party which has no discipline, said Prime Minister D M Jayaratne.

The Prime Minister was speaking at several election rallies at Obeysekerapura, Kotikawatta and Ambatale.

He asked the people to think whether the development of cities can be handed over to a party which fails to maintain discipline.

The Prime Minister said that the people in the Colombo city are not ready to reverse the development drive implemented by the government.

He said the people should rethink the future of the country surpassing conventional thinking.

"It is the duty and responsibility of the urban people to win the city at the local polls on October 8.

"Today we have an aim. That aim is nothing but the development of the country. President Mahinda Rajapaksa was born in a village. But he did not forget the city. The Colombo city has undergone many changes during the last few years. The government has developed all cities in the country, he said.

"The period in which we had a narrow world view is no more."

He said that the period in which the people voted for petty and narrow gains is over.

The Prime Minister added that cracks have developed in the UNP and they do not have a vision for the country's development. There was an era in which the underworld figures decided the development of the country.

The Prime Minister said that the CMC had no proper methodology to collect garbage in the city when the UNP was in power.