SLFP membership expansion drive highly successful

Nimal Wijesinghe - Anuradhapura Additional District group corr

The SLFP's party membership expansion move, the ‘Nation Building Blue Wave’ has been highly successful in Medawachchiya electorate, Medawachchiya Chief SLFP organizer and Women's Affairs and Child Development Minister Tissa Karalliyadda said.

Speaking at the Medawachchiya SLFP Bala Mandala meeting at Kebithigollewa MMV auditorium to mark the membership expansion week in effect from March 28 to April 4, the minister revealed that already 22,000 new members have been enrolled to the SLFP from Medawachchiya electorate within three days.

Karalliyadda said the aim to be achieved by launching the Rata Negana Nil Rella being guided by President Mahinda Rajapaksa and sponsored by Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa was to enhance the present membership of 500,000 up to one million while increasing the present number of 11,000 SLFP branches up to 20,000.

“Only the SLFP has been instrumental from its beginning to provide development dividends and benefits to the people in the country.

“The party which was established on the concept such as the supreme duty of the human being is to serve the human being with the participation of the five forces, such as Maha Sangha, native physicians, teachers, farmers and labourers is being ushered to be the strongest single party by President Mahinda Rajapaksa,” Karalliyadda emphasized.

The minister said that the people of Medawachchiya were so blessed and fortunate enough to get a leader in the calibre of late Maithripala Senanayake who kept a world record by being a member of parliament for 47 years continuously. That trend has been prevailing and more strengthened resulting from the remarkable development activities implemented by the government, Karalliyadda said.

Senior Minister S B Navinna said the SLFP has been thriving on the basis of friendly grass roots level members.

He said farsighted vision of Minister Basil Rajapaksa to launch the nation building Blue Wave has been a unique “live” programme.

North Central Province Chief Minister S M Ranjith also spoke.

Kurunegala District parliamentarian Nimal Wijesinghe, Provincial Cooperative Minister K H Nandasena PC (NCP) members Susil Gunaratne, Kalyani Karalliyadda, Padaviya, Kebithigollewa and Medawachchiya PS chairman, Members along with Medawachchiya SLFP branch representatives were present at the occasion.