UNPrs to join UPFA

Ridma DISSANAYAKE

A group of candidates of the Colombo’s UNP list contesting the elections is to join the UPFA within the next two days, Economic Development Deputy Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said.

“All measures are in place to develop Colombo city as a model city within the next four years,” he added.The UNP wants Colombo to remain a city of shanty dwellers to gain petty political benefits and to make allegations against the government.

The deputy minister was addressing the final press briefing of the UPFA’s political campaign for the final phase of the Local Government elections, at the Mahaweli Centre yesterday. “Leader of the opposition Ranil Wickremesinghe is always saying that the government is doing everything for Hambantota.

Through such statements he is trying to reduce the number of votes which the UNP may receive in Hambantota.

‘The other UNP leader Sajith Premadasa is trying to reduce the number of votes in Colombo. This is happening because of the conflict in the opposition”, the minister said. The public has endorsed the President’s development programme and they always support the Government to achieve its development goals.

“There is no doubt about the UPFA’s victory at the elections. The public know that the government will win the economic war as they won the terrorist war,” the deputy minister said.