Forthcoming PC elections :

Patriotic people’s duty to ensure govt’s victory

Indika Polkotuwa

It is the duty of the patriotic people to ensure a government victory at the forthcoming elections to defeat conspiracies hatched by certain sections to make use of the election to achieve the Eelam dream which could not be attained by war, Mass Media and Information Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said.

The minister was addressing a meeting at the residence of former UPFA Central Provincial Council Member Linton Wijesinghe.

Former Central Province Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake, Former UNP Provincial Councillor and Teldeniya Chief Organizer Lakshman Wijesiri, Mahesh Wijesiri and several other UNPers renounced their UNP membership and attended the meeting pledging their support to Linton Wijesinghe at the forthcoming election.

Minister Rambukwella said Sri Lanka need not seek advice from any foreign country in finding solutions to its internal problems. The people of this country had given a massive mandate to the government to seek its own solutions to the country’s problems. He said the time was now opportune to amend the 13th Amendment to the Constitution which was forcibly imposed on the country through the Indo-Lanka Accord.

The minister said the Provincial Council system was something the people of this country never requested. When the Indo-Lanka Accord was signed two UNP Parliamentarians who understood its gravity and harmful repercussions resigned from the party in protest.

He said that eventhough people criticized the PC system as a white elephant there was no need to scrap it as it had been in operation for the last 25 years and the people had got used to it.

Rambukwella said the UNP which had no proper leadership or direction was no match to the UPFA at the forthcoming election. He said Linton Wijesinghe had been a great source of strength to him in his political journey owing to the immense good work rendered by him in Kundasale.

Former Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake said the UPFA which gained power in the last Central Provincial Council with 38 elected members increased its strength to 41 with the support of other members. They would capture power at the forthcoming election too with the same member strength.

Linton Wijesinghe also spoke.