Steady erosion in Colombo’s UNP vote base - Ministers

‘For the first time in CMC history, a mayor of the minority (not ethnically but mathematically) has been appointed to the Colombo Municipal Council. ‘Also, for the first time in CMC history, the UNP has scored less than 50 percent of votes in Colombo at the recent LG polls, Skills Development and Youth Affairs Minister Dullas Alahapperuma told the Daily News yesterday.

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‘Opposing everything is not Opposition’s only role’

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday, while noting that an Opposition’s role was not to oppose everything, said that, however, today’s Opposition knew no other role than opposing everything. He added that the Opposition had not stopped at that but had gone even further by betraying the country,

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