UNP coming to power only a dream – Dilum

The UNP does not have even the semblance of an organisation. Its failure to even to pay the party's electricity bill is due to that fact, Kandy District Member of Parliament Dilum Amunugama said.

Addressing a meeting recently, Amunugama said in that background, it is only a dream for the UNP to think of coming to power.

He said the President, in the midst of numerous problems and obstacles has taken appropriate action intelligently and very wisely. “Consequently, all sections of the country have been able to reap the fruits of development. The government is developing the country without any party discrimination and with a deep understanding of the problems involved in this matter. Our aim is to commence development programmes, simultaneously in all nine provinces without any discrimination,” he said.

“The people's faith and trust in the government has not diminished. This is owing to the efforts made by our government to develop all sectors in the country, increasing infrastructural facilities, providing more employment opportunities, making education more meaningful, economic conditions of the people being made ‘people-friendly'; maintaining peace and order, and stabilising our independence. All these are very significant achievements in the present context,” Amunugama said. He said in our march towards progress and development, it is appropriate to remind ourselves of the right directions we are taking, and also think of our history.

“We have achieved our cherished aims and objectives quite successfully. We are pledged to pursue that path further. An opposition which has no proper knowledge and no well conceived programme, is thoroughly incapable of defeating our government. The UNP has no organisation to settle its electricity bills in respect of its Headquarters at Siri Kotha, Kotte. The UNP's bankruptcy has been revealed and even a child can understand the sad plight of the UNP. In that background asking the people to elect the UNP to power is nothing but a joke,” the MP said.

He said the people of this country do not have any need to install a bankrupt party in power.

“Today, the UNP seeks advise from outside organisations like the Fredrick Newman Foundation of Germany, which is an NGO spear-headed by persons in Germany. Such advice is being sought for to come to power. The UNP today has gone to such an extent of bankruptcy that it needs advice from foreign sources,” Amunugama said.

He said if there is development in all sectors of the country, such as the provision of infra structural facilities, highways, supply of electricity and water, especially in rural areas, people do not need to have another government.

“It is only if such facilities are lacking that people will have to think of alternatives. However, as long as development activities take place uninterruptedly, the people's attention will not be diverted towards other directions or parties.

The President is treading on the correct path while the opposition is far away from reality, having day dreams of coming to power. The opposition has to traverse a long journey if it is to come to power. The opposition's plan appears to be to hold press conferences at all odd times where stale news is doled out to the people,” the MP said.