SLMC back in UPFA after polls - Keheliya
‘Govt manages country according to national agenda’:
Nadira GUNATILLEKE
The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) will join the UPFA after winning
the Eastern Provincial Council. In the past, on many occasions the UPFA
allowed many political parties to contest alone keeping their own
identities and this is not the first time it has happened. It depends on
the uniqueness and requirements of relevant areas, Cabinet spokesman and
Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said.
Minister
Rambukwella |
According to Minister Rambukwella, President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s
blessings are always with his party, the SLFP and not with any other
political parties, but it does not mean that all political parties
cannot work together.
“Working with many political parties is not something simple.
Therefore, the government always takes the best possible decision. The
government is managing the country according to a national agenda and
not according to a political agenda that aims at elections. The
government has no problem about appointing Chief Ministers. That is how
the prices of goods were brought down,” the minister said.
Minister Rambukwella pointed out that President Mahinda Rajapaksa
proposed a temporary ban on the party membership of all politicians who
had been accused of various child abuse incidents and this directive has
already been implemented. Nominations have been granted for the
relations of SLFP politicians who have already been in politics.
“Nominations were given only for those who joined politics before the
new rule.
It is people’s democratic right to bring a politician to power
according to their wish. The Cabinet decided not to give nominations to
those who had been accused of various crimes. Stringent punishment will
be meted out to SLFP politicians who have been engaged in child
exploitation cases, if found guilty. It is not only the SLFP politicians
who had been accused of crimes. Politicians from many other political
parties had been accused of the same,” Minister Rambukwella added. |